*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).
IAC, which owns Match, Tinder, and OkCupid, recently added Hinge to its portfolio because "we like competing with ourselves," says CEO Joey Levin. "Tinder was created inside of Match to disrupt Match." Levin spoke with Cheddar's Alex Heath at the Allen & Co. Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho.
The wireless company will hold a stake in Magic Leap, which released a demo of its mixed-reality headset Wednesday afternoon. “For AT&T, it makes a lot of sense to invest in this area,” says Ed Baig, personal tech columnist at USA TODAY. “It’ll be curious to see if AT&T subsidizes the price of this headset” like it does with smartphones.
Even when Netflix was a DVD rental company, it tried to customize choices for its customers, says Gibson Biddle, former VP product at the streaming giant. That strategy still drives many of the company's decisions today, including the kind of content it spends money on.
According to a New York Times report, Zelle -- institutional banks' answer to Venmo -- has been extremely vulnerable to hacks and fraud. The company that created the app, Early Warning Services, is now working on making Zelle harder to exploit, says Ravi Loganathan, the company's head of business intelligence.
Cheddar’s Alex Heath caught up with industry heavyweights at the 2018 Allen & Co. conference in Sun Valley, Idaho — an event commonly referred to "summer camp for billionaires." The hot merger landscape in the media industry was front-and-center, with Comcast and Disney fighting over the future of Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox empire.
The streaming service will use the fresh capital for "a bigger marketing push," says CEO Andrew McCollum. The company also launched on Apple TV and Amazon Fire TV on Tuesday in an attempt to bring the service in front of more users.
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The partnership benefits both companies as the scooter wars begin to heat up. Lime likely chose Uber over other ride-hailing companies because "Uber's got a much deeper geographic penetration, particularly internationally," says Dan Primack, business editor at Axios.
The company, in partnership with Servco Pacific, launched the app Hui on Tuesday in Honolulu, Hawaii, with plans to open in other locations internationally. Hui enables users to choose from a fleet of Toyota and Lexus cars to rent out by the hour or for the day.
The company's U.S. Chief Security Officer Andy Purdy says there is no evidence to back up the FCC's claims that Huawei is a national security threat. “There is no indication we’ve done any improper things on behalf of the Chinese government."
