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Facebook is the second most popular website, just after Google. There are over 800 million active users out of which 300 million daily spend at least twenty minutes per day on Facebook. It is very popular and users tend to spend a lot of time on it as compared to other social networking sites. Therefore, the U.S. Department of Labor expects that Facebook may soon become a strong tool for job search.

Finding a job through social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin is a great idea. Online college students prefer to use Facebook for job search as it is a convenient way to search for a job from the comfort of your home. However, it’s not as easy as it sounds. Online students should consider a few things while using social networking sites for job search.

Here are 5 smart tips for recent graduates and online students to use Facebook strategically to get hired.

1. Improve Your Online Reputation

Prospective employers and HR managers will view your profile and can see all your status updates, photos, videos and groups. Therefore, if you want to make a good impression on recruiters, remove any inappropriate pictures or content that can potentially hinder your prospects of getting hired. Make sure that your current profile is such that it makes a positive impression on potential employers.

2. Network and Interact with Companies

Students who have successfully completed their online degree programs and are looking for employment opportunities at a specific company should join their page on Facebook. This will give them a great opportunity to interact with the company. All corporations want candidates who are passionate about their organizations and grads can show their passion by being active on those Facebook pages. Students can also use Facebook to professionally contact recruiters, HR managers, and employers.

3. Participate and Get Active in Facebook Groups

After completing your online education, you can join professional groups on Facebook which discuss and post news about particular topics, or industries that you are interested in. By joining such professional groups you can actively participate in discussions, post links and other resources to the wall, moderate or manage sections of the group and so on. Participating in professional groups will create a positive impression on the minds of recruiters and prospective employers. Facebook groups can be used to network with and get noticed by professional corporations and could lead to you being considered for future job opportunities.

4. Tap into your Network to Find a Job

Facebook provides inexhaustible resources and connections for job seekers. College students and recent grads are advised to approach networking on Facebook as a way to get more information about an industry by messaging and engaging with employees and industry leaders. Building a strong personal network on Facebook platform will help you in your job search.

5. Build Strong Online Relations

It is important to build a strong online relation with relevant industry players who can advise you about your job search and will remember you for future career opportunities. Using Face book as an online platform for job hunting will show prospective employers and recruiters that you have interest and knowledge in your chosen field and are eager to improve your skills.

The social network can be a strong medium for finding employment. Did Facebook help you get hired? Please share your experience with us.

Some great new designs have been added to the range of British Study Centres threads (clothes) you can buy from the school shops. The new White T-Shirts are a great way for students to remember their time at British Study Centres by writing their goodbye messages and names in their last week. And the new hoodies added to the line will keep you warm at evening social programme events like when the volleyball season gets a bit chilly or currently for pre and post match football. The hoodies are priced £20.00 to £25.00 and the T-shirts are priced £10.00 to £12.00. Let us know in the comments section what you think!

Heres a nice scene taken from the Young Indiana Jones TV show from the 1990s, showing one great benefit of being a polyglot (somebody who speaks several languages) impressing the opposite sex!

Although some of the accents are, lets just say, a little suspect, it would certainly still be very impressive to be able to have a conversation journey through French, German, Italian, Hungarian, Swedish, Greek and Arabic all in the course of around one and a half minutes certainly something to aim towards!

Have you spent hours at a local coffee shop starring at vocabulary flashcards?  If you have, that will make all GRE sentence completion questions much easier.  But, Word Definition questions can also be solved with certain strategies.  First, when reading the sentence you should always try to come up with a word that you think would fit in the blank.  This doesn’t need to be a “fancy word”; in fact, you should keep it to a word you would probably use on a day-to-day basis.  Next, if you cannot come up with a word, you should at least think if a positive or negative word will be the answer (think of the difference between murky and pristine, with the former being a negative word and the latter being a positive one).  Last, you should always write down A, B, C, D, and E on your scrap paper.  Make sure to cross off any answer choice you know is not correct.  Now that you have some tips and strategies, let’s look at two examples, one with a single blank and another with two blanks.

1) Workers greeted the announcement of reduced sick day allowances ; they were accustomed to managements capricious adoption and abandonment of new policies.

A) disgustedly

B) impassively

C) blithely

D) enigmatically

E) pompously

What word did you come up for the blank?  It sounds like it’s a negative word, doesn’t it?  Management doesn’t seem to stick to their decisions, so the workers probably don’t take their decision to reduce sick days seriously.  Does one of the answer choices mean “not too seriously”?  It’s definitely not A.  B seems like a good choice, with them being passive and not paying too much attention.  What’s blithely?  It’s means casually and/or careless.  It kind of fits, so let’s keep it.  And choices D and E don’t seem to fit here.  Which would you choose: B or C?  Impassively is the best fit for this sentence completion question.

2) The artists influences were -, ranging from the urban setting in which he was raised to the worlds of fashion and music; there was no factor that defined his style.

A) controversial cohesive

B) subversive unpopular

C) esoteric secret

D) outrageous endemic

E) eclectic single

When figuring out sentence completion with two blanks, it’s imperative that you choose an answer where both words fit.  The test-makers will purposely have answer choices where one of the words works for a blank whereas the other one will not.  With that said, let’s examine the example to the left.  What word can you think of for the first blank?  A good one might be “varied.”  The second blank?  How about the word “defining”?  After writing those choices on your scrap paper, check to see if any of the answer choices match what you think the words should be.  If you picked these words, the only choice that makes sense is E (eclectic…single).

Now that you’ve seen two examples of Word Definition sentence completion questions, it’s time to practice.  Go play some games on Grockit, chat with other people preparing for the test, and get advice from the trained instructors.  You’ll be prepared for test day if you put in a little bit of time each day!

FORT WORTH - Santas not welcome in Fort Worth ISD Classrooms.  Neither are Christmas presents.

The district says Santa is welcome in the school cafeteria.  And the lobby.  But not in the classroom.

And no Christmas cards or presents, either.

Santa Claus is welcome to visit our schools, Interim Superintendent Walter Dansby said in a statement.  But he cannot visit the classroom while the teacher is teaching.