*By Conor White*
With only one chance to make a first impression, jobseekers would do well to hone their social media profiles before ever stepping into an office for an interview.
"The way that we look at it is your public profile is really like your resume," said Francesca de Quesada Covey, Facebook's head of jobs and service partnerships. "It's information you want to share."
Job candidates can share ambitions, skills, and job pitches in real time, and receive direct feedback from hiring managers via Facebook's Messenger app, de Quesada Covey said in an interview Monday with Cheddar.
"We have 80 million businesses on the Facebook platform, and we see that 1.6 billion people are connected with businesses," she said. "So we know there's a lot of opportunity there to connect people and businesses."
Many Facebook users may be reluctant to share after it was revealed that 87 million of them had their personal information compromised in the Cambridge Analytica data breach. De Quesada Covey said she understands some people are skittish.
To ease concerns, the social network has introduced new protections for jobseekers. A "view as" feature lets users see what personal information is available when someone else views their public profile. This allows jobseekers to know exactly what potential employers will see.
"We're putting privacy in control of the people using Facebook, because privacy is one of the most important things we're doing at Facebook right now," she said.
For the full interview, [click here](https://cheddar.com/videos/finding-a-job-with-facebook).
The e-scooter boom has led to two fatalities ー both on Lime products ー the first documented deaths since scooters charged into the public square earlier this year. Emily Warren, senior director of policy and public affairs at Lime, said in order for e-scooters to become integrated into everyday transportation, there needs to be infrastructure put in place to keep scooter riders safe.
In an exclusive interview with Cheddar as part of the debut of Cheddar Rides, MTA Managing Director Ronnie Hakim outlined the plan to keep the 225,000 people who commute between North Brooklyn and Manhattan via the L train moving.
Shares of SVMK, otherwise known as SurveyMonkey, opened at $18.75, well above the original IPO price of $12.
SVMK, the parent of the online polling company SurveyMonkey ($SVMK), will begin trading as a public company Wednesday, looking to ride the wave of strong tech IPOs from the likes of Eventbrite, Farfetch, and Sonos.
Fintech firms' grand promise had been to unbundle services like checking, savings, lending, and wealth management. But as the big banks adapted to the ever-changing market, start-ups like Simple are now rebundling again. CEO Dickson Chu confirmed to Cheddar that the company, which was acquired by BBVA Compass in 2014, began offering personal loans up to $40,000 through a partnership with online lending company Prosper.
Adolphus Busch V is coming off the launch of ABV Cannabis, a marijuana start-up that operates in Colorado and sells disposable vape pens filled with cannabis oil. Next, Busch says he is looking to bring pre-rolled joints to market. He plans to brand the company as a healthy alternative to the product that made his family unimaginably wealthy.
Nearly all of cyclists who die in accidents weren't wearing helmets. Park & Diamond wants to change that. The start-up, which won the Red Bull Launchpad, is building a bike helmet that looks and feels like a regular baseball cap. Co-founders David Hall and Jordan Klein said the helmet is collapsible and light and made of a composite material that makes it as safe as a normal helmet.
Kimbal Musk, Tesla board member and brother of CEO Elon, told Cheddar, "If you have a Model 3 and you'd like it delivered, we can probably get done for you by the end of the week. If we haven't reached out to you, reach out to us."
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