*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).
Shares of the electronic signature company surged around 37 percent in its market debut Friday. CEO Dan Springer told Cheddar the company has all of the components to be "a rock solid public company."
Homepolish is like Tinder for interior design, where clients are matched up with designers based on not just aesthetics but also "personality, working style," says the founder and CEO Noa Santos.
Divya Narendra, who founded HarvardConnection with the Winklevoss twins and later sued Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg for stealing the idea, tells Cheddar the market's reaction to the Cambridge Analytica scandal was an "overreaction."
Many worry that fallout from the Cambridge Analytica scandal could weigh down Facebook's growth in the next few quarters, but "fatigue with the platform" may be the bigger drag, says Scott Devitt, an analyst at Stifel.
Since Russia banned the encrypted messaging service last week, Google and Amazon have also been dragged into the fight. This comes at a time when Telegram is considering an ICO and has already raised a total of $1.7 billion, making it the biggest potential coin offering in history.
Rather than having users manually enter every single transaction, Cointracker automatically tracks activity across 14 different exchanges. "It's totally independent from what other companies have done," says the co-founder Chandan Lodha.
The social media giant reported better-than-expected earnings, despite questions about its privacy and data security. [But the real impact of the Cambridge Analytica scandal will only be reflected in the next quarter, says Damon Beres, Executive Editor at Mashable.](https://mashable.com/2018/04/25/facebook-q1-2018-earnings/)
The Netherlands is the best place to test new innovations in the autonomous vehicles space, according to a recent report from KPMG. That's thanks to great infrastructure and political support, says Florien van der Windt, Project Manager of Connected and Automated Driving at the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment.
The second generation of Snap's smart glasses are available for sale in the U.S. starting today. Prices start at $150 and come in a variety of colors. Cheddar Senior Reporter Alex Heath broke news of the launch back in March.
The company, which manages and routes 10 percent of all internet traffic, says its new product 1.1.1.1 will keep consumers' data away from network providers.
