Social media to find employment

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Using LinkedIn & social media to

manage your career

How you will benefit from todays session

Learn how LinkedIn, Facebook & Twitter can determine your

future

Build relationships with

potential employers

Create & raise your personal brand profile

Create a business or skill & share it with millions of people globally

1/10th of a Second Is All It Takes to Blow It

Those new year’s or pics on Facebook

That throw away Tweet after a

beer or 2

A slight lack of etiquette on

LinkedIn with a potential employer

Every time you communicate with

someone who could influence

your career

Twitter 40,000 years ago was a cave painting

We hunted and killed today, it was good.

The update was…

Create business

opportunities

Network locally & globally

Create an engaging brand

profile

Build relationships with useful

contacts

Promoting expertise

Resource & learning

Employment opportunities

Benefits

X Don’t SellaBuild Relationships

a Engage

A business network based on 3 degrees of

separation Build relationships, get referrals, network

with previously unobtainable

contacts

161+ million members

26 million members in Europe/UK – fastest growing

region with 9m+ members

Huge, free contact database

Global Shop Window

What is

3rd

2nd

1st

You

Growing your network through 3 degrees of separation

How your “Shop Window” should look

What does your shop sell?

What else do you have to offer?

Network with those who share your skills

Who else has been to your shop?

Linking others to you

Network with others like you

Network with your potential

employers

Learn and shareInstantly expand

your business network.

Why groups are your secret weapon

Groups

Groups

Advanced Search

Advanced Search

Twitter is a social ‘messaging ‘ tool

It enables you to send & receive short

messages of 140 characters called

‘tweets’

These tweets are all publicly visible by

default

On average 400 million tweets are

sent per day from half a billion users

23.8 Million Twitter accounts in

UK

This means in theory you can engage in conversation with

anyone else on Twitter – globally

Twitter – Build Relationships Online

Listen out for opportunities & engage

Create an interesting &

engaging personal brand – maybe

write a blog

Observe how others tweet &

interact

A mix of ordinary conversations – chit chat, share useful

content & offer advice

Follow useful contacts & retweet or

comment on their tweets

Help others & join conversations. Give

out tips & useful knowledge. Link to

good content – your own & others

What do I say?

Social media site – 901 million active users – 75% are

outside of the US1 million new UK members each

month

Average user has 130 friends and is connected to 80

community pages, events and groups

Age profiles from 13 years +

Fastest age growth 35 years +

2 billion+ pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog

posts, photo albums) shared each day

2nd most trafficked website

after Google

Facebook – Build communities – checked out by recruiters

Customer Service

Product development

Create communities &

build loyalty

Reaching new clients

through adverts

Increase traffic to websites

Share News

Generate awareness

Benefits

Quality

TrustBetter Referrals

Easier Maintenance

Quantity

Wider SearchVisibility

Reach

Who to network with

Managing the ‘Noise’

Consider using a 3rd party tool to ‘manage’ social media

like Hootsuite

‘Listen’ for keywords that apply to your

expertise & respond

Organise people you follow on Twitter &

Facebook contact into lists

‘Don’t’ get sucked in or it will consume all your time. Set plans & diarise rigidly

Don’t expect to read every tweet & status

update – its impossible

Social Media time management

Success

Goals

Planning

Market your skills to potential

employers for free or very low cost

Easily find specific business contacts and

‘shake hands’ with them

Learn and share useful via useful resources found

online

Helps determine your own future

Social Media Allows you to…

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