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Choosing a career path can be overwhelming when you are a high school student. However, it is important for students to begin thinking about and taking action toward their desired careers during this time. Our talk at SxSWedu shared some tips for all of us to prepare students for careers.
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This presentation outlines how the Internet today can be considered to be akin to the Wild West of the USA and how the rules of the Wild West could be applied to the manner in which we use the Internet today.
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Choosing a career path can be overwhelming when you are a high school student. However, it is important for students to begin thinking about and taking action toward their desired careers during this time. Our talk at SxSWedu shared some tips for all of us to prepare students for careers.
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Slides from my AITD 2017 Conference talk.
Join me and become a Ninja Learning Warrior.
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1. Building your online professional
profile
Ingrid Koehler
Knowledge Hub social media taster
sessions
Tuesday, 7 December 2010
2. Thanks for coming
• First session
• Lots of ideas, but
refining them
• An opportunity to
share tips in the
group
Celyn 4, 09 by Castaway in Scotland on Flickr
Tuesday, 7 December 2010
3. Enhancing your online profile
• Recruiters increasingly turning to LinkedIn
• Helps potential clients understand your
approach
• Sensible employers use Google, some check
social sites, too
• Showcases your past work
• Puts you in the light you want to be in
Ceiling by radiant guy on flickr
Tuesday, 7 December 2010
4. This is brand YOU!
• Ensure your social networking profiles match
the image you want to project
• Tell the truth
• Don’t badmouth colleagues, former employers
(as tempting as it may be!)
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5. Approaches
• Don’t be afraid to
ask
• Sharing is winning
• Celebrate others
• organising your
‘real world’
connections
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10. And what does Google say about
your field?
Tuesday, 7 December 2010
11. LinkedIn
• Profile completion
• Profile openness
• Recommending
others
• Asking for
recommendations
• Improving your
findability
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12. Profile completion
• All of your (relevant) employment history
• Your CV
• Your education
• Your social profiles
• Joining groups and contributing to them
• Recommendations
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13. Steps to profile completion
100
Profile completion
75
50
25
0
Education Employment Your CV Groups Links Recommend Update
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14. Easily linkable
Profile openness URL
Full view,
tick everything
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16. What about Facebook?
• Generally not seen as a job seeking resource
• Will NOT generally help you link to new
people or manage acquaintanceships
• But these people ARE your friends
• Understand your social graph and target
messages
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17. Clusters of My home town in TN
networks
LG Group in-laws
Dad’s family
Digi public
services in the UK Expats Uni
Local politics
only certain networks may help you with some goals
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18. Facebook warnings
• Clean up your Facebook act: Are your friends
bringing you down?
• Check privacy settings
• Inappropriate photos?
• Incoherent rubbish?
• Reference to drug/ alcohol use?
• It IS ok to be less formal in Facebook
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19. Portfolio blogging
• Great way to showcase your talents
• Makes you much more findable
• Helps you to link your social profiles
• Allows you to help and promote others
more easily
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21. What about Twitter?
• Celebrate others and share useful links
• Stay up to date in your field
• Stay visible
• Promote your other online efforts
• Ask for work or suggest how you can help
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22. Search
• Set Google search
alerts
• Key words on Twitter
for real time search
• set up Google
Reader to stay
informed and share
relevant links
Magnify by catd_mitchell on Flickr
Tuesday, 7 December 2010
23. The Knowledge Hub
• Much greater control of your profile
• Will showcase YOUR knowledge and
contributions
• Activity streams and updates
• Ability to link to other social profiles, including
LinkedIn
• Not the go-to job search resource now, but it
will be soon for the public sector and related
fields
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24. Link your profiles
And don’t forget to share your profile in your email signature
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25. Other cool ideas
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2010/may/13/google-jobs-brownstein
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26. Other cool ideas
Do a visual CV!
http://www.slideshare.net/GlobalGossip/really-ugly-resumes
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28. So much time
does all this take?
Little and often, prioritise tools depending
on your objectives
What time is love by Myxi on Flickr
Tuesday, 7 December 2010
29. Time spent
A couple of hours to set up, 15 minutes a
week
Minutes to set up basic site, successful
blogging - minimum two hours a week
Minutes to set up, as and when you have
presentations
Minutes to set up, depends how you use it
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30. Plan your online routine
• Have a strategy
• Be pragmatic - bite off what you can chew
• Be consistent
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31. Contact me
• These slides are posted at
www.slideshare.net/ingrid_k
• www.twitter.com/ingridk
• http://uk.linkedin.com/in/ingridkoehler
• ingrid.l.koehler@gmail.com or
ingrid.koehler@local.gov.uk
• www.ingridkoehler.com
Tuesday, 7 December 2010