*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).
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Facebook is developing a virtual token that would allow users around the world to make electronic payments. The news comes after the company announced its biggest-ever executive reshuffle, which put former Messenger chief David Marcus at the head of a new blockchain unit.
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The Webby Awards have been running for over two decades and have evolved "as the internet has grown," says Claire Graves, executive director of the annual awards. Each year, the best of the best are rewarded for their contributions to the internet. This year, podcasts and games will be honored too. The awards will air on Tuesday.
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Warren Buffett and Bill Gates have openly expressed their doubts about Bitcoin. But institutions like Goldman Sachs and the New York Stock Exchange are considering embracing the cryptocurrency, suggesting that Bitcoin may just be a "blind spot" for the older generation, says Jen Wieczner, a senior writer at Fortune.
Millennials are rethinking how they use traditional banks, which opens up a massive opportunity for fintech companies, says Anu Duggal, a founding partner of the fund that just received an additional $27 million in seed money.
The state became the first in the U.S. to require almost all new homes to have solar panels, part of an effort to get half the state's electricity from renewable sources by 2030.
