The document discusses how employers are increasingly searching online profiles of potential job candidates and employees. It provides examples of students who were denied jobs or internships after employers found unprofessional content on their public social media profiles and blogs. It advises job seekers to audit their online presence by searching for themselves online, reviewing social media profiles for any unprofessional content, and ensuring any personal websites or blogs would not cause issues if viewed by an employer. The goal is to curate an online image that matches one's professional goals and would not damage job prospects if discovered by current or future employers.
This is the presentation that Lucas Walker (@walkerlucas) and I (@KennyNorton) put together for Pod Camp Toronto 2011 (#PCTO2011). It's focused on how students or new graduates can leverage the power of social media to get themselves a job. Lucas and I both graduated in May 2010 and have taken different paths to get a job in the Social Media Analytic industry (aka a dream job), and we put this presentation together to help others accomplish that as well.
Link, Poke & Tweet: Amping Your Personal Brand, DigitallyJohn Kreicbergs
Authors: Mark Logan, Joe Grigsby, John Kreicbergs
Each and every one of us owns a personal and professional brand that we must manage. From digital natives to technophobes, from advertising junior creatives to CEOs, we now must embrace the role that online social media tools can and do play in shaping that brand. Looking for a job? Want to make new professional connections? Or simply wondering how you can amp your online image? Then come and learn the how-tos, don’t-dos and self-branding horror stories around LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.
Social Media for the Careerist: Navigating Social Media and Networking ResourcesRachel Esterline Perkins
Learn to use the web and social media to develop your personal brand, showcase your skills to potential employers and expand your network. From developing on online portfolio to finding internship opportunities through Twitter, you'll learn about tools and resources you can use to get a step ahead in your career. Hosted by Central Michigan University's Alpha Kappa Psi.
Presented on Feb. 1. 2012
Your Online Brand: Using social media in your job searchJeremy Johnson
I gave this presentation to a group at a local Career Connections meeting (Dallas area). This goes over how to use social media to benefit your job search.
This webinar was presented to the Smith Alumni Assoc. in June, 2010. Over 500 Smith alumni attended this webinar, the highest attendance of any Smith webinar to date.
This powerpoint is about website evaluation. It is part of a presentation at TLA2009 about using technology in instruction called "There's More Than One Way to Skin a Cat!"
The Social Media Bandwagon: Why HR Should Jumptslapointobrien
Understand the power social media has in our society is critical and even more so for businesses. You can either be in front of it and use it to your advantage or wait until the shoe drops and pick up the pieces.
Employees are the face of and represent your company, how do you want them to do that? Do you want a united front or shooting in the dark and hope it hits the right target.
Control social media or it will control you, in a sense. Determine your needs, put a policy in place, and use it for positive growth, online branding, keeping up with your customers and vendors, and stay ahead of your competition.
Degrees2Dreams empowers college students, recent grads, and college career counselors to leverage the power of social media in landing career-launching jobs. Using creative tools such as QR codes and industry focused blogs, we enable students and recent grads to stand out from the crowd and get on the radar screens of key players in their dream fields. When it's time to find a job, our graduates can pick up the phone and connect with a powerful network of big names in their field. Meanwhile, their competitors have their calls transferred to the wasteland of the HR Department. Launch your career today! Contact me: john@degrees2dreams.com or 617-688-0137.
Getting the job of your dreams, not just one that pays the bills.
Market yourself in the internet age
what differentiates you in the marketplace?
establish your personal brand
compete in the new talent marketplace.
have your own website/blog
established social network profiles,
leverage your relationships and talents
This is the presentation that Lucas Walker (@walkerlucas) and I (@KennyNorton) put together for Pod Camp Toronto 2011 (#PCTO2011). It's focused on how students or new graduates can leverage the power of social media to get themselves a job. Lucas and I both graduated in May 2010 and have taken different paths to get a job in the Social Media Analytic industry (aka a dream job), and we put this presentation together to help others accomplish that as well.
Link, Poke & Tweet: Amping Your Personal Brand, DigitallyJohn Kreicbergs
Authors: Mark Logan, Joe Grigsby, John Kreicbergs
Each and every one of us owns a personal and professional brand that we must manage. From digital natives to technophobes, from advertising junior creatives to CEOs, we now must embrace the role that online social media tools can and do play in shaping that brand. Looking for a job? Want to make new professional connections? Or simply wondering how you can amp your online image? Then come and learn the how-tos, don’t-dos and self-branding horror stories around LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.
Social Media for the Careerist: Navigating Social Media and Networking ResourcesRachel Esterline Perkins
Learn to use the web and social media to develop your personal brand, showcase your skills to potential employers and expand your network. From developing on online portfolio to finding internship opportunities through Twitter, you'll learn about tools and resources you can use to get a step ahead in your career. Hosted by Central Michigan University's Alpha Kappa Psi.
Presented on Feb. 1. 2012
Your Online Brand: Using social media in your job searchJeremy Johnson
I gave this presentation to a group at a local Career Connections meeting (Dallas area). This goes over how to use social media to benefit your job search.
This webinar was presented to the Smith Alumni Assoc. in June, 2010. Over 500 Smith alumni attended this webinar, the highest attendance of any Smith webinar to date.
This powerpoint is about website evaluation. It is part of a presentation at TLA2009 about using technology in instruction called "There's More Than One Way to Skin a Cat!"
The Social Media Bandwagon: Why HR Should Jumptslapointobrien
Understand the power social media has in our society is critical and even more so for businesses. You can either be in front of it and use it to your advantage or wait until the shoe drops and pick up the pieces.
Employees are the face of and represent your company, how do you want them to do that? Do you want a united front or shooting in the dark and hope it hits the right target.
Control social media or it will control you, in a sense. Determine your needs, put a policy in place, and use it for positive growth, online branding, keeping up with your customers and vendors, and stay ahead of your competition.
Degrees2Dreams empowers college students, recent grads, and college career counselors to leverage the power of social media in landing career-launching jobs. Using creative tools such as QR codes and industry focused blogs, we enable students and recent grads to stand out from the crowd and get on the radar screens of key players in their dream fields. When it's time to find a job, our graduates can pick up the phone and connect with a powerful network of big names in their field. Meanwhile, their competitors have their calls transferred to the wasteland of the HR Department. Launch your career today! Contact me: john@degrees2dreams.com or 617-688-0137.
Getting the job of your dreams, not just one that pays the bills.
Market yourself in the internet age
what differentiates you in the marketplace?
establish your personal brand
compete in the new talent marketplace.
have your own website/blog
established social network profiles,
leverage your relationships and talents
How the Norm of Inadequate Job Matching Finally Begs the Need for JANZZ.jobs janzzcom
I am not a church officer. I am not a travel agent. Nor am I a social media guru, a butcher, an IT specialist, a corporate finance intern, or a boutique manager. But according to the numerous job sites I’ve signed up for, this is who I am. Well I’ve got something to say job sites, YOU DON’T KNOW ME!
Learn how to exploit the power of Facebook to build your online image, be identified by industry leaders, develop meaningful relationships with others in your industry, and position yourself as a knowledge expert in your field. Hosted by: Facebook Talent Marks WEBINAR
A must have in your 'Career Success' toolbox is the the networking tool. This presentation shares some tips and tricks for personal and online networking. Designed and delivered to a university audience, its message is valuable to all.
Hiring managers and recruiters say they’re seeing an odd trend: younger job candidates getting their parents involved in the hiring process. “In my years of human resource roles I've personally experienced a lot of absurd and ridiculous behavior from job seekers,” says Christine DiDonato, founder of Career Revolution. “However, the one that really blows my mind is one committed by some of our recent college graduates: Bringing their parents to the interview or having a parent call the hiring manager or recruiter and attempt to negotiate their employment offer.” This doesn’t help you build a personal brand, and it certainly doesn’t make you look independent and capable, DiDonato says.
Using social media_in_your_job_search_v4_2_sepMike Lally
Latest version of a presentation that walks through both using social media in your job search and using social media to manage your career and online reputation.
2. Some employers are searching the Internet to see if they can catch a glimpse of you beyond your sterling resume or fabulous interview performance. If the two pictures don't match, that internship or job you've been pursuing -- or are already in -- could potentially vanish. To wit:
3. A chemical engineering student at a university in the Northeast was eliminated from consideration for a job opening after a company recruiter Googled the student's name, discovering, among other things, that he liked to blow things up.
4. A student at a school in the Southeastern US was being courted by a small business owner for a key position -- that was until the owner saw the student's Facebook profile, which featured explicit photos and stories about the student's drinking and pot smoking.
5. A recent graduate of a small upper Midwest university was only a few weeks into her first postgraduation job when the boss called her into his office. He had discovered the young woman's personal blog , where she had been writing in detail about how miserable she was in her new position. She soon became a former employee.
6. If stories like these have a faraway, it-happened-to-my-sister's-best-friend's-cousin feel to them -- the kind of vibe that makes you skeptical -- you're not alone, according to Jill Wesley, a former Purdue University career counselor who recently became director of career services distance education at Indiana Business College.
7. "Although some employers are checking profiles, it takes a lot of time and is dull work," Wesley says. Moreover, "there are also some legal gray areas, and I don't think any employer wants to be the test case for them."
8. Still, Wesley stresses, it's critical for you to remember that with few exceptions, whatever you put on the Internet is public -- and very often available indefinitely. So you need to make sure your online presence is working for you, not against you. Here's how.
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10. Google Yourself: Use the popular search engine to look up your name. You may want to try a few other search engines too, like Yahoo! and AltaVista . Does anything potentially damaging turn up? If so, consider contacting any sites where you found the information and ask to have it removed.
11. Assess Your Social Networking Site Profiles: Have you posted stories or photographs on sites like Facebook and MySpace that could turn off a prospective employer? Have friends posted any potentially damaging information that could somehow be associated with you? Are you a member of any Facebook groups whose names and activities could be deemed suspect? When in doubt, take it out.
12. Do a Content Inventory of Your Personal Web Site or Blog: Have you written about -- thus sharing with the world -- any topics or experiences that might give a prospective or current employer pause?
13. When you're done, your overall online presence should pass the "would you be comfortable if your grandmother saw this?" test, says Wesley. Grandma may never really look you up online, but an employer certainly might. What will he discover about you?