The document emphasizes the importance of maintaining a positive digital portfolio as one's online presence can significantly impact career opportunities. It suggests creating and managing profiles on platforms like LinkedIn while being mindful of privacy settings and the content shared online. Employers increasingly value digital footprints over traditional resumes, necessitating a proactive approach to one's online reputation.

1. Digital Portfolio and Footprint
Dr. T S Pradeep Kuma
r
Professor, School of Computing Science and engineerin
g
VIT Chenna
i

2. Being Social is important

3. AskYourself
Is your online pro
fi
le accurate and up-to-date
?
What are your privacy settings
?
What do you ‘like’ and who do you follow on social media? What groups are you a member of? What does
this say about you
?
What photographs exist of you online? What’s your pro
fi
le picture like? What impression might others
form of you
?
What interests have you highlighted? What impression does this give
?
What comments or opinions do you share via social media
?
What do you and your friends say about each other
?
What skills, competencies and experiences do you share online? Do you ‘showcase’ your talents
?
Who are you connected to professionally via social media? (e.g. employers, professional groups,
individuals who work in the sort of job that interests you, job agencies, career experts, etc.)

4. A man is the sum of his
actions, of what he has done,
of what he can do, nothing
else.
--- Mahatma Gandhi

5. In the future, your "Digital
Footprint" will carry far more
weight than anything you might
include on a resum
e

6. Jobs
✤ Employers started looking for online pro
fi
le (so make always
positive about you
)
✤ they prefe
r
✤ Linkedi
n
✤ Googl
e
✤ Twitte
r
✤ Facebook

7. Jobs
✤ They look for
✤ Personalit
y
✤ Communicatio
n
✤ Professional Quali
fi
cation
s
✤ Creativit
y
✤ Groups in which they are int
o
✤ good references and recommendatio
n
✤ awards and accolades

8. Check what you
do online
✤ You cant take back anything
that is already posted in
internet (like tags by your
friends, the copied image of
yours posted by your friend
)
✤ in 140 characters, your
reputation can be damaged

9. What Should I
do now?
Create a Digital Footprint

10. View your name as a
brand

11. Use consistent messages
across all your pro
fi
les

12. Use your professional photo (not
an actor, actress, sportsperson,
etc
)

13. Create a digital pro
fi
le (Linkedin.com is
the suitable one
)
✤Post about the projects
✤Post about the accomplishments you
have done during your college days
✤It could be so small, but record it
.
✤Build your network in LinkedI
n
✤Follow the groups that you want to
enrich yourself into it.

14. Clean up your Facebook
and Twitter pro
fi
le if the
reputation is not good

15. Start a blog (Blogger.com or wordpress.com
)
blog about your experience
Build credibility

16. Get your SSI
from LinkedIn
Social Selling Index

17. Get an alert with
Google on who search
you and your name

18. LinkedIn Statistics
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✤ There are 90 million Senior level in
fl
uencers (They can get you an
internship or a job or any position in universities
)
✤ 55% of the decision makers use the LinkedIn contents to choose
companies to work with
.
✤ LinkedIn gets the most social media traf
fi
c from Facebook at 35.45%.
Other social sites direct traf
fi
c to LinkedIn at 21.83% (YouTube),
15.90% (SlideShare), and 12.36% (Twitter)
.
✤ The best times to post on LinkedIn are 8-10 AM and 12 PM on
Wednesdays, and 9 AM and 1-2 PM on Thursdays. Sunday is the
worst day for engagement

19. Start building your portfolio
and make your footprint

20. My footprin
t
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r
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