FirstJob Uses Facebook To Connect College Grads With Employment
LinkedIn may be a great resource for professionals to connect with and contact other people regarding job opportunities, but about those who are fresh out of college with resumes full of part-time jobs and internships? Eyal Grayevsky figured that college students and recent graduates usually have more Facebook friends than LinkedIn connections, so he helped create FirstJob to enable the newest job seekers to find employment through Facebook relationships. The site officially launched Monday.
LinkedIn may be a great resource for professionals to connect with and contact other people regarding job opportunities, but about those who are fresh out of college with resumes full of part-time jobs and internships? Eyal Grayevsky figured that college students and recent graduates usually have more Facebook friends than LinkedIn connections, so he helped create FirstJob to enable the newest job seekers to find employment through Facebook relationships. The site officially launched Monday.
Grayevsky, himself a recent college graduate, knows that college students don’t really have extensive work histories, meaning fewer connections on LinkedIn and less-impressive resumes to send employers compared with those who have been working for a few years.
Users can sign up for FirstJob accounts by connecting their Facebook profiles.
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