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Maintain a Good Web Presence Using LinkedIn™ for Networking
Employers are searching the Internet to learn about potential employees, Employers Want While Facebook™ can be a good tool for connecting Tips for using LinkedIn™
including social media sites, search engines, forums, gaming sites, etc. To Know... to people on a professional level, LinkedIn™ is the Keep it clean and up-to-date. You
It’s important to find out how you look online and if needed, clean it up. Will you be a good fit online site to use when you want to develop your don’t have control about who sees it
Does your Facebook™ page project you as a good potential with the corporate professional profile. Currently there are about 332 and when, so make sure your updates
are complete and you proof what you
employee? Controversial subjects, questionable photos, and rude culture? million users on LinkedIn™, and it’s becoming submit.
language, even spelling and grammar are looked at by recruiters. Are you qualified for the go-to site for employers and recruiters who are
the position? getting info on candidates for a position. In 2014, Upload a professional photo – Use a
Don’t post negative info on other people’s sites. If you have done so 92% of employers were using LinkedIn™ and head shot with a neutral background.
in the past, see if they can be removed. How creative and 72% were using Facebook™ as part of the hiring People are 11 times more likely to view
Keep it clean and think about what you are posting. Remember, if innovative are you process. your page if you have a photo.
you put something out there on the web you cannot take it back! online? With LinkedIn™, you set up an initial profile that Make your profile summary brief and
Keep your work and skill information up-to-date. Keep a list of Do you have any includes a professional summary with a list of your to the point. You have a few sentences
places where you post your information and check them to make inappropriate experience, education, organizations you belong to, here to really get across who you are and
sure your information is current. behaviors that will be volunteer experiences and causes, honors, awards, where your focus is in your career.
a challenge? courses you are taking or projects you’ve done.
Choose the right key skills you want to
You invite people to link to your page and you emphasize.
Social Media and Your Career... Do’s and Don’ts receive invitations to link from others. You are Build your network - Send invitations
Social media can make or break your career. Employers are looking at you as they make hiring building a network of people you know, because to people you have something in
decisions, so here are some rules to follow online. you can see not only the people who you know, common with, people you know, people
but the people they are linked to as well. who could serve as a reference for you,
Do... Don’t... You also add your key skills to your profile. your teachers, employers, people you met
Check your Facebook™ privacy settings to Make any posts related to sex, guns, illegal People in your network can give you on an internship, neighbors, and even
select the personal and public content being drugs, or alcohol. endorsements or recommendations on your your parents.
displayed. Post profanity. skills.
Set up a LinkedIn™ account and keep it Complain about your current job. Use LinkedIn™ to research companies and
updated. find people in your network with ties to a
Make fun of your boss, work team, or clients.
Participate in online groups related to your specific company or organizations where you
career. Post while working. want to connect.
Build your network of professional contacts. Post anything you wouldn’t mind a potential Join LinkedIn™ groups where you can interact
employer seeing.
Post content that shows your interest in your and post about topics that interest you. As you
participate, people can check out your profile
profession. You can’t take back and add you to their network.
what you post online.
Think before posting!!
