Resume Webified. Check!

Dear Employers,

Your internet investigations just got boring, or maybe more interesting? No longer does googling the name Kelsey Trites produced old memberships to quiz sites, photosharing sites or a lame Facebook account that proves I have no life outside of school or work. You may have begun your investigative search believing you would find some internet scandal rendering my opportunity to work for your company null. But now, walla! A Facebook page dedicated to the professional me has been created. Read away and be reassured that, yes, I am what you are looking for.*
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Kelsey-Trites/287065304682330?sk=info

Once again my ALES 204 course has schooled me (which is probably a good thing cause I pay them to do just that). I never realized the advantageous uses of Facebook. Previously, when I thought Facebook page I thought Meagan Fox or Skittles or, my personal favourite, Jude Law. Never did I think I could have a page dedicated to me, or that it would be to my professional advantage.  A professional page does more than purely re-state the information present on your resume, a professional page is a hub for all your other online connections. It is a quick, environmentally friendly, way for employers or really whoever is interested to get a look at Kelsey Trites (or -INSERT NAME HERE-).

Unfortunately, even as I type these epiphanous sentences my grandfathers words echo in my head. "In my day, we had one-on-one contact, we called them interviews.....cause we're real people, not a web page!" Yes, grandpa. You are right. I do miss the days where my outgoing, persuasive personality could do all the talking and the only back ground check employers could do was a legitimate police check.  But, like you also once told me "if you can't beat em', join em'"! The age of technology has come, and I would say almost gone...in the sense that we are entering into a neuvo-technilogical age. One I can't/won't even bother to try to define. So, here is me "joining 'em"!

ktreatsy

*I actually googled my name after this post and to my disappointment I don't really exist...at least not in web terms. Apparently there is a second Kelsey Trites roaming the web taking all the Kelsey Trites credit. Sorry to all. Maybe one day.