Use Social Media While In-transition. So, here are several tips to improve your social media standing. If you find something that might be detrimental to your image, work toward taking the information down. On the other hand, work toward becoming active in generating positive information about your professional background and activities. Spend extensive time on LinkedIn to learn how to improve your profile. You don’t know the people your family and friends know who could potentially help you. Then go one step further and become active in those groups. Twitter is becoming more and more a tool for job seekers to find employers and for recruiters to find qualified candidates. Today it’s very easy to set up a blog site and become active. Blogging amounts to merely sharing your opinion.
If you’re looking for career continuation but not aiding
yourself via social media, you’re overlooking a great opportunity.
These days, very high percentages of employers and recruiters are
using primarily social media—or are at least supplementing their
searches via social media—to source talent. Guess who loses if they
cannot find you or if the information they do find is minimal? On
the Internet, most of the information about you should reside in
LinkedIn because LinkedIn is the premier platform for business; but
don’t underestimate other social media such as Facebook, Twitter,
and YouTube. So, here are several tips to improve your social media
standing.
- Check yourself out by Googling yourself. If you find something
that might be detrimental to your image, work toward taking the
information down. Most of the time, though that’s difficult if not
impossible to do. On the other hand, work toward becoming active in
generating positive information about your professional background
and activities. That advice is helpful for currently employed
workers, too, because nowadays no job is secure for the long
run.
- Create a list of keywords from pertinent job postings as well
as from, say, the LinkedIn profiles of others in the same position
as yours or one that’s similar. Then make sure to include
those…
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