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You’re Hired! Job Hunting Advice For Law Students and Young Lawyers
demonstrates engagement, initiative and thought leadership. On your Facebook profile, include information about your background and educational history, and again, use a professional photo.
And I don’t want to hear about privacy and how they’re your social media accounts and you can do what you want on them and no one has a right to judge you about what you post on them. Go sell that somewhere else, because no one is buying. Think of landing a job like speed skating in the Olympics.
The difference between first place and the Gold and fourth place and no medal is the equivalent of clapping your hands twice. That’s it. If you’re off by just that much, the equivalent of two claps, you don’t get to stand on the dais. Is that fair? If you’re asking that question, you’re asking the wrong question. That’s just how it is. And the difference between getting a job and not getting a job could be those off color jokes you shared on Facebook. That’s just how it is. Remove them and stop posting them.
Review Your Social Media Image
Review your social media profiles and posts through the vantage point of an employer. Another prism through which to look at your posts is through the vantage point of your parents, spouse or other loved ones. If there is anything on there that they would be ashamed of or offended by, you may want to remove it. Again, I don’t care if it’s set to private. This is 2020. Nothing is private anymore, and if it is, it won’t stay that way. Put yourself in an employer’s shoes. If you reviewed your unfiltered social media postings, would you hire you? If the answer is no, fix it.
Create an Employer Friendly Social Media Presence
Sit down with all your social media platforms and review your posts, your shares, your photos and your comments from the vantage point of an employer which may hire you. If you were
in an interview, and the interviewer pulled up your social media presence and reviewed it with you, would it cost you the job? Would it hinder landing the job? Would you have to spend time explaining away something you said or a photo or meme you shared? What’s more important to you – saying dumb stuff on social media or landing a job? Yes, the dichotomy is that simple.
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