Social media can help advance your career in several ways. It allows you to network with professionals in your field through sites like LinkedIn, giving you connections that may help lead to job opportunities. You can also use social media as an extension of your resume by creating content that showcases your skills and qualifications. In addition, using social media can help develop professional skills like responsibility, consistency, and understanding quantitative and qualitative work that are valuable for future career growth.

1. HOW SOCIAL MEDIA CAN ADVANCE
YOUR CAREER
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2. INTRODUCTION
 Social media has become unquestionably important
to both businesses and professionals looking for
jobs.
 While having social media savvy can absolutely
make you a more valuable job candidate, there are
other ways that social media can help advance your
career.
 Next, we will discuss several ways that you can
advance your career using social media.

4. GETTING A JOB
 The most common way that social media can help
your career is to get you a job.
 Networking websites like LinkedIn provide the
ability to meet other professionals in relevant fields.
 These connections are becoming more and more
relevant, as many employers provide privilege to
applicants that are personally referred.

6. GETTING A JOB
 Additionally, you can use social media as an
extension of your resume.
 For example, Dawn Siff was the first person to use
Vine to create a quick “elevator pitch.”
 You can do the same to explain your professional
qualifications effectively and efficiently online.
 Simply put, social media provides you with the
opportunity to create content and display other
professional skills for all of the world to see.
 What’s unique about social media in this regard is that
you don’t need a job to do so. You can simply and
effectively promote yourself and jump-start your
career—from nothing, if necessary.

8. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
 Not only can social media get you a job, it can also
enhance and refine the skills you already have.
 Social media can teach responsibility and
consistency (through monitoring and posting on a
regular schedule), as well as teaching the values of
both quantitative and qualitative work and where
these two worlds intersect.
 Lastly, if nothing else, you gain skills that you can
add to your CV that will make you a more valuable
candidate in the future!