{"id":84702,"date":"2016-01-14T18:59:33","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T16:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=84702"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:06:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:06:14","slug":"will-you-change-your-facebook-profile-picture-after-reading-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/will-you-change-your-facebook-profile-picture-after-reading-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Will you change your Facebook profile picture after reading this?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s no secret that many managers and recruiters nowadays use<strong> Facebook to investigate<\/strong> the candidates applying for jobs in their companies. They\u2019re even known to make their <strong>final decision<\/strong> based on the<strong> candidate\u2019s profile photo<\/strong>, or at least that\u2019s what a recent study is claiming.<\/p>\n<p>The research was conducted at Ghent University in Belgium by Professor Stijn Baert who comments: \u201c<em>The candidate with the most favorable Facebook profile picture received approximately 21% more positive responses to his application in comparison to the candidate with the least favorable profile picture.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also added: \u201c&#8221;<em>The difference in the chance to be immediately invited to a job interview amounted to almost 40 per cent.<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here you can see an example of the study:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>These two profile pictures:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-84703\" title=\"facebook1\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2016\/01\/facebook1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2016\/01\/facebook1.jpg 425w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2016\/01\/facebook1-256x239.jpg 256w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/>have a much higher chance of getting employed than these two:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-84704\" title=\"facebook2\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2016\/01\/facebook2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2016\/01\/facebook2.jpg 450w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2016\/01\/facebook2-256x227.jpg 256w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/> <strong>So what\u2019s the key?<\/strong> Try to look approachable, stable, outgoing and open, and sure, why not, attractive.<br \/>\nWill you change your profile photo after reading this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s no secret that many managers and recruiters nowadays use Facebook to investigate the candidates applying for jobs in their companies. They\u2019re even known to make their final decision based on the candidate\u2019s profile photo, or at least that\u2019s what a recent study is claiming. The research was conducted at Ghent University in Belgium by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/will-you-change-your-facebook-profile-picture-after-reading-this\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Will you change your Facebook profile picture after reading this?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2057,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2353],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-84702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionfacebook"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2057"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329382,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84702\/revisions\/329382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84702"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=84702"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=84702"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=84702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}