This document discusses the history of communication technologies and the rise of social media. It provides an overview of how phones, the internet, and social networking have evolved over time. The document then focuses on how LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter can be used for job searching, noting that LinkedIn is best for professional networking while Facebook requires separating personal and professional profiles. It encourages participants to partner up and research companies using these social media sites.

1. Social Media
for Job Search
For Worklink Employment Society
With Sheny Gregory
web: shenygregory.com
https://ca.linkedin.com/in/shenygregory
twitter.com/shenyker @shenyker

2. Warm up Time
Be ready to catch things flying
at you!

3. Who remembers when...?
Telephones - Party lines?
 Rotary phones?
 Long cords to walk around the kitchen?
 Then cordless land lines?
 Who still has a land line phone?
 Who only has cell phones?
• Written Communication
 Old school Typewriters? Typing class?
 Carbon copy? (not photocopier)
 Newspaper?
 Canada Post letters, postcards?

4. Who remembers
when...?
• Written Communication cont’d…
Fax Machines first came in?
Electronic typewriters?
(with autocorrect,
no more typing correction tape
Halleluyah!
• Communication
Televisions? Colour vs B&W?
Having to get up to change
the channel?
Original big brick cell phones?

5. Enter Internet... www...
Enter interne
• 1980’s first PC’s and MAC’s.
• www created in 1989
• 1990’s dawn of email and internet used for e-learning.
• 1990’s became a staple in university, colleges to use for
emailing

6. History of Internet
www
Still had to go to the library and use the dewy decimal system to find
books
2000’s Businesses adopt eLearning for a way to train employees.
2010’s Social Online Learning, Youtube, Skype, massive online
learning opportunities. Anytime. Anywhere.

7. The Plan...warning may go off topic & follow questions path
Warm up
Facebook safety tips: personal vs
professional
Linkedin - as a professional, for your job
seeker clients
Twitter - what the heck is it useful for?
Take Action....Next steps?

8. Facebook.com
Social Media Club Cowichan Valley
Worklink Employment Society
Viatech - Victoria one of BC’s big
Technology pockets
Your choice?
Personal vs Professional

9. Linkedin
347 million users
2 new linkedin members per second
Linkedin’s goal 3 billion users
187 million users in USA
200 countries and territories reach
Available in 20 languages
380 million skills added to profiles

10. Who has an account? With a recent
photo?
Who has over 300 connections? More?
Who has an all-star profile?
See profiles, connections, jobs
Review what companies are on Linkedin

11. Twitter.com
Tweet – 140 character limit, visible to everyone who follows you and to everyone
following the hashtags(#) you include
• Follow – Following someone on Twitter means you are subscribing to their Tweets
• Retweet – Reposting something that someone else has posted.
• Feed – A stream of updates from users we follow.
•
Handle – Username @CowichanYouth @shenyker
• Hashtag (#) - A hashtag is a discovery tool that allows others to find your tweets,
based on topics **slide created by Kerri Anderson
•
Viatech Worklink me Company of your choice?

12. Take Action
Partner up: Look at Linkedin, Twitter
and Facebook
Find one piece of info from each SM
site on a company you (or your client)
wants to work for
Share back with the bigger group your
findings....
Close out: your next step to SM
saaviness? Share with group.

13. Thank you
For more resources:
http://www.slideshare.net/shenyker
shenygregory.com
linkedin/shenygregory
@shenyker
shenygregory@gmail.com
I look forward to reconnecting!