Alex Fenton talks about Employability, Digital and Creativity, your digital presence online and the Creative Hive Network. Thank You to our friend Andrew Brooks for the amazing cover photo of Lady Hale Building, University of Salford where our Employability Hub is based.

1. Employability, Digital & Creativity
Alex Fenton : SBS / Employability Hub
a.fenton@salford.ac.uk

2. Real &Virtual Networking
Networking activity

3. Employability, Digital & Creativity
Overview
• Intro
• What do we mean by digital & creativity?
•Your digital presence online, does it matter?
• Real and virtual networking

4. Alex Fenton - LinkedIn
uk.linkedin.com/in/alexfenton

5. Employability, Digital & Creativity
Intro – Alex Fenton
• Member of SBS employability hub
• BIP supervisor (in the area of digital, seo, social media,
digital marketing etc.)
• Run web development company Edinteractive.co.uk
• Member of Research Centre for Digital Business
• Course leader for Search & Social Media Marketing
(Professional Development course, MCUK)
• Who are you?

6. Digital and Creativity
What does this even mean?

7. Your digital presence online
Is this important?

8. Your digital presence online
According to careerbuilder.com survey

9. Your digital presence online
According to undercoverrecruiter.com survey

10. Your digital presence online
According to our man at thecandidate.co.uk
“The vast majority of employers are now using
Google to find people’s social media platforms.
Making a mistake in the recruitment process
can be costly. It also helps to validate CV’s and
any concerns that people may have.
It is certainly higher in the digital sector and the
decision makers are more likely to search.
However HR people managing the process
have their reputation to uphold and won’t put
people through if they’re social profiles paint a
bad picture. It also helps ensure that 1st
interviews aren’t a waste of time, so it can be
for extra screening points, even through the
candidate is unaware.
More and more employers are adopting this,
outside of digital too.”
Colin Telford,
The Candidate.co.uk

11. Your digital presence
Which sites are important?
• LinkedIn
• Facebook
• Twitter
• Google (results)
• Google +
• Your own website?
• Others?

12. Your digital presence
Checklist - Activity
1. Google yourself, making sure you are not signed in
to Google at the time
2. What do you see?
3. How can you clean up your digital presence?
4. Who what SEO, Search Engine Optimisation is?

13. Your digital presence
Privacy settings & things to avoid

14. Your digital presence
Do you need your own portfolio website?
• This is crucial for jobs in digital particularly
• What are the advantages of your own website?
• What could you use?Wordpress,Tumblr, LinkedIn?
• Creative Hive?

15. What is Creative Hive?
www.creativehive.org
• Built, run and supported by Business School staff, working with
MediaCity
• Creates real world opportunities and connections between
students, staff, the community and industry (circa 1000 members)
• Provides a unique web space to allows people to show work
digitally at www.creativehive.org and in person at MediaCityUK

16. You get your own free website
Blog your thoughts and show your work off

17. Customise it
Change the look of your website

18. See other peoples work from the Uni
Make new connections and find collaborators

19. Why do we blog or
showcase our work online?
• Represent your idea with Lego SeriousPlay

20. Creative Hive @ MediaCityUK
www.creativehive.org/live/mediacity/

21. Creative Hive Live
www.creativehive.org/live

22. Creative Hive Live
www.creativehive.org/live/prog
• Cross Disciplinary Collaborations
• Performance
• Film
• Creative Writing
• Fine Art
• Audio installations
• Music
• Creative Technology
• Sculpture
• Painting
• Graphic design
• Comedy
• Drawing
• Web design
• Animation
• Photography

23. Video from Creative Hive Live
http://creativehive.org/live/prog/

24. Join and try out Creative Hive
www.creativehive.org
• Open a browser at:
www.creativehive.org
• Click ‘Join Creative Hive’ from the
top right
• Complete the details using your
own name without spaces for the
username e.g. alexfenton
• Leave web address blank unless you
have another website
•Who is member 1000???

25. www.facebook.com/groups/creativehive
#creativehive
www.creativehive.org

26. Real &Virtual Networking
What does this mean?

27. Thanks!
Drop me a line..
• Email: A.fenton@salford.ac.uk
• Twitter: @alexfenton
• LinkedIn: uk.linkedin.com/in/alexfenton