Facebook Page for Business

For everyone who doesn't know yet, Facebook is becoming more than just a website to keep in touch and trade pictures via the internet.  Facebook is evolving into a communication and advertising bases for many companies and organizations.  A huge advantage for using a communication site for posting your resumes, job listings, or ads, is the access to millions of people with various taste which spreads over the majority of the globe.  We have to embraces what we have here!  This is where the future lies!  As you can already see people get jobs via internet sites such as Facebook more frequently.  In my personal opinion, taking a feature of a company, such as the hiring process, and making it accessible to people over a wider employing front can give your business more integrity.  This may be because you are opening the placement to maybe people who aren't in local vicinity and could be more qualified therefor increases the quality of your company and can give you more options.  Below is a screen shot of my personal resume made on Facebook.  I hope to use this tool in the future when the time comes to look for my "dream" career.

  As you can see in my resume listings of education, skills, past employment are easily accessible. Using Facebook is even more of an advantage for the people who are seeking employment.  And yes, you may say "well aren't there those websites already made for looking for jobs, like monster.ca or edmontonjobshop.ca?  Well yes there are, but they are only limited to people who use them.  Facebook, if it isn't already, is becoming the world's most popular website.  You can attach your resume to your Facebook profile where people can access such information about you if they are employing but not posting.  You might even get offers for interviews you didn't even consider applying for because you didn't have knowledge of them in the first place.  But yet someone who looks at your skills can determine if you are right for their open positions.  Jobs are popping up everywhere in Canada, some you didn't even know you were qualified for. Having a globally understood tool like Facebook can expand your limits and get you what you want.  And best of all, to some maybe, you can look for a career at the tip of your fingertips without having to leave the couch. 

Piece 'o cake :)

To have access to my full resume and profile on facebook for format, interests, etc.  Visit this link below!

http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Angele-LHeureux/216000341794778?sk=info

Also check out what other Ales 204 students have to say!  Here's a link to Xiaomings blog on her ideas on how facebook can be used as an interactive business card!

http://xiaomingales204.blogspot.com/2011/09/new-class.html

My first CSL Lab!

I am so excited and feel so privileged to be in the CSL program for ALES 204.  Having Courtney as an instructor, I can see already, that the class is going to be fun, educating, and exciting. This is going to give all us CSL students a chance to do something that will hopefully benefit our understanding of the world while at the same time provide information through out it. I am a student of hands on learning and face to face interactions. Our lab is small and quaint, but full of personality and potential which makes being a partner in the program an enjoyable and rewarding experience.  Hopefully I will have lots to talk about in my volunteer work and show my fellow class mates the benefits the Writers Guild can provide.

  Being placed at the Writers Guild of Alberta is going to be greatly beneficial for the organization and myself.  Promoting, marketing, and planning events, as well as having that first hands on experience is ,what I believe, what helps an individual learn better. I love how The Writers Guild is an excellent tool for aspiring future writers.  They provide member services such as manuscript revision, peer reviews with published authors, and free writing seminars to give the writing community a chance to flurish in Alberta.  Having met with the program coordinator and aquiring all my tasks through out the semester I can't wait to see what and how my efforts are going to affect the organization.  Being at the Writers Guild I can use a variety of techniques to convey our ideas through social medias and different methods of communication.  I hope through our experience together we can create innovations to benefit everyone. 

(Writers Guild of Alberta logo) Retrieved September 22, 2011 from :http://www.writersguild.ab.ca/images/WGALogo2_010.JPG)

For reference to another student volunteering in the Writer's Guild take a look at what Tania has to say!

For more information about the Writer's Guild visit:

http://www.writersguild.ab.ca/

Introduction

Hello everyone and welcome to my blog,

  My name is Angele L'Heureux, I was born and raised in Edmonton, Alberta.  I enjoy various things like playing the guitar, basketball, animals, and being an advocate for healthy living.  I currently go to the University of Alberta where I am in my second year of food science and nutrition where I hope to be a dietician at the end of my education.  Being a dietician means a lot to me mainly because of personal reasons.  My father, a diabetic, resides in a mental rehabilition facility due to an alcohol induced nutrient dificiency.  Seeing a good man, like my father, being taken over by such a horendous disease as well as seeing all that he endured made me realize my purpose.  I want to inhibit future lifestyles to contribute to a happy and healthy community as well as create awareness of cases like my fathers.

  I believe being in the Ales 204 course is going to be very benefical to my future goals because I can spread my word to various people, across the global, as well as reaching any age group.  Especially using social medias like facebook and twitter, I can specifically focus on creating awareness to many generations, especially the younger generation, to start an early practice of healthy living and mental disease awareness.  Learning how to properly communicate amoung a variety of people can expand concepts to a whole new level.  Many can honestly say that communication plays a huge roll in being a dietician for the fact that we have to convey a message to many people, that a good majority know the subject, but don't understand why.  We have to learn how to reach out to people that need us the most as well as admininster the proper advise.  Using the proper communication techniques we can achieve this goal clearly and efficiently to it's full potential.

Hope everyone has a great experience in the class!!

Angele L'Heureux