3. Using Social Media in Your Job Search
• On-line social network sites have become an
essential forum to advertise your skills
• Allow you to establish your social brand,
network with people online, identify job
opportunities, and turn those leads into real-
life job opportunities
• By using social media sites in your job search
you can increase the visibility of your
professional profile and be seen by the
wider world
What do you think
about the information
in the reports?
4. Social Networking Aids Job Search
• More popular than email, works 24/7 and
365 days
• Highly visible and powerful
• Reach/keying into important people
• Networking paradigm rapidly changing:
Multiple meeting
Leverages offline networking
Relationship maintenance and
expansion
• Less intimidating than offline networking
5. Choose an Online Presence
Interactive
address book
Thought
Leadership
Reputation
Builder
Common
Interests
Social/Business
Networking site
Identity
management site
Discussion groups Blog/Micro blog
6. Test Your Online Presence
• Google yourself – what do you find?
• Add your classmate’s Facebook and Zalo.
• Tell me what your friend think about you.
• Tell me what you think about your classmate
after reading their profile.
7. What is a Professional Brand?
• Your professional reputation, online image and personal characteristics such
as working style, community engagement and worldview.
• Incorporates your particular skills, talents and areas of expertise.
• How would your colleagues describe your strengths?
• On what issues are you the go-to person in your organization?
• What do you know more about web design and e-commerce than most
people?
8. Tips for using Social Networking to improve
Online Presence
• Build and expand network, join communities, add new friends.
• Use it at least once a week
• Create a strong profile that is consistent with other networking sites
• Tag pictures that are consistent with profile image
• Identify people in target companies
• Discover job leads with new applications.
• Don’t forget to maintain quality network
9. Create Online Presence to remain
Competitive
• Employers google prospective employees: Background check
• Include all education – GPA, summer courses, study abroad
• Know the “buzz” words in your area of interest – employers may search on key words.
• Recommendations show credibility – try to get three, each showing different strengths
• Set profile to “public”, claim a unique URL for your profile, include it in your email
signature
• Be thoughtful about endorsing others
10. Final Tips
• Share your work and volunteer work. Add links to any professional blogs, website,
projects,…
• Update your status to keep up a professional image (a personal phone call or email to your
most important contacts)
• Use groups as a “brain trust” and to share your knowledge with them as well.
11. Safety while Networking
• Google person before meeting
• Choose a public place, workplace is best unless someone works at home
• Skype, Phone, Zalo,…meeting room
• Use your own transportation
• Tell friend/family your plans and timeframe
• Share your email address or Linked In profile – NOT dorm location or other personal
information
• It’s never appropriate for your networking contact to exact a personal or social obligation
from you
15. Discover
• Key questions to ask about careers that interest you
• When to get information about careers
=> By researching careers, you will get to know as much as you can
about careers that interest you. The information you gather will help
you decide which careers are right for you.
17. Key terms
• Research: A systematic study in which you have to collect, organize, analyze and interpret
information by using different searching engines
• Exploratory interview: A discussion between a job candidate and a professional who works
in an organization or a specific position that the candidate is interested in pursuing
• Job shadowing: A type of on-the-job training that allows an interested employee to follow
and closely observe another employee performing the role
• Internship: A period of work experience offered by an organization for a limited period of
time
• Volunteering: A voluntary act of an individual or group freely giving time and labour for
community service.
19. What skills and aptitudes should I
have?
What education and training would I
need?
What would my work environment,
or surroundings, be like?
What hours would I spend on the
job?
What kinds of work I would do?
What responsible would I have?
Would I be able to move ahead?
What will this career be like when I’m
ready to work?
What does this career pay?
What other rewards would this
career provide?
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What to Research
10 questions help to gather basic information about careers.
20. Best Job Sites in Vietnam
No matter where you get information, its
always important to check to make sure that
its is true and still current
21. Try this activity
Conduct Exploratory Interviews
Asking questions:
• How did you start in this career?
• What education and training did it require?
• What do you like about your job?
• What do you do on a typical day at work?
Taking detailed notes during your interviews. Afterward, write your reflections
on each interview experience.
22. • Job shadowing involves following
someone for a few days on the
job => You learn about a
particular career by watching and
listening
• An internship is a temporary paid
or unpaid position that involves
direct work experience in a career
field => The experience and the
contact
• Volunteering is a great way to
explore careers.
23. You found a chat room about a career that you are interested in. Several
people said there was no future in this career. Should you forget about this
career?
24. Try this activity
Write Career Critiques
Write critiques of the
careers. Write what you
like and dislike about each
career, and include
information on the career
outlook.
• Select two careers that interest you
• Research the careers
• Let me know what do like and dislike about those
careers and what you prefer?
25. Critical Thinking Reviews
1. What can you learn from an exploratory interview?
2. Why is it always important to gather up-to-date information about careers?
Absolutely not
Check any information you gather, Find out if the information is a fact or one person’s opinion.
Exploratory interviews can give you an insiders perspective on a career
Because the work world is constantly changing, you want to base your career choices on the latest information.
