Week 5 EOC: Social Networks and Job Hunting

With the economy, buyer habits, wants, needs, demands, and the world constantly changing, one has to know and understand that buying power of consumers will change. In todays society there is a huge want for apple products. It’s understandable why because they do put out some awesome products that do work very well. But there are four main factors that influence consumer buying and those are cultural, social, personal, and psychological influences. “Human behavior is largely learned. Growing up in a society, a child learns basic values, perceptions, wants, and behaviors from the family and other important institutions.” Growing up there were things I bought and didn’t buy based on my culture or environment. Even at a young age you’re somewhat bread to buy like your family does or how your peers do. Meaning that you’re more than likely going to end up buying something because you saw your friend with it or its something that your family has been buying for a long time. Now of course in order to buy things you have to have a job so you can pay for those things you buy. Well some companies today use a not so cool or reliable way to determine if they’d like to hire you. Facebook is a huge social media network that people are on. On Facebook people post things that can be very personal and revealing. More companies are trying to tap Facebook Inc.'s 750-million-plus user base to find new employees, threatening traditional job boards and competing with LinkedIn Corp., which has dominated the online professional networking arena. I don’t agree with companies hiring or not hiring people off of with they may do on a social media site. I mean in some cases it may be understandable. But in other cases its just not.