This slide tells about the Digital Portfolio and footprint creation in the internet through social media. Its a must for college students to showcase their skills and accomplishments.
3. AskYourself
Is your online pro
fi
le accurate and up-to-date
?
What are your privacy settings
?
What do you ‘like’ and who do you follow on social media? What groups are you a member of? What does
this say about you
?
What photographs exist of you online? What’s your pro
fi
le picture like? What impression might others
form of you
?
What interests have you highlighted? What impression does this give
?
What comments or opinions do you share via social media
?
What do you and your friends say about each other
?
What skills, competencies and experiences do you share online? Do you ‘showcase’ your talents
?
Who are you connected to professionally via social media? (e.g. employers, professional groups,
individuals who work in the sort of job that interests you, job agencies, career experts, etc.)
4. A man is the sum of his
actions, of what he has done,
of what he can do, nothing
else.
--- Mahatma Gandhi
5. In the future, your "Digital
Footprint" will carry far more
weight than anything you might
include on a resum
e
6. Jobs
✤ Employers started looking for online pro
fi
le (so make always
positive about you
)
✤ they prefe
r
✤ Linkedi
n
✤ Googl
e
✤ Twitte
r
✤ Facebook
7. Jobs
✤ They look for
✤ Personalit
y
✤ Communicatio
n
✤ Professional Quali
fi
cation
s
✤ Creativit
y
✤ Groups in which they are int
o
✤ good references and recommendatio
n
✤ awards and accolades
8. Check what you
do online
✤ You cant take back anything
that is already posted in
internet (like tags by your
friends, the copied image of
yours posted by your friend
)
✤ in 140 characters, your
reputation can be damaged
13. Create a digital pro
fi
le (Linkedin.com is
the suitable one
)
✤Post about the projects
✤Post about the accomplishments you
have done during your college days
✤It could be so small, but record it
.
✤Build your network in LinkedI
n
✤Follow the groups that you want to
enrich yourself into it.
14. Clean up your Facebook
and Twitter pro
fi
le if the
reputation is not good
15. Start a blog (Blogger.com or wordpress.com
)
blog about your experience
Build credibility
17. Get an alert with
Google on who search
you and your name
18. LinkedIn Statistics
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✤ There are 90 million Senior level in
fl
uencers (They can get you an
internship or a job or any position in universities
)
✤ 55% of the decision makers use the LinkedIn contents to choose
companies to work with
.
✤ LinkedIn gets the most social media traf
fi
c from Facebook at 35.45%.
Other social sites direct traf
fi
c to LinkedIn at 21.83% (YouTube),
15.90% (SlideShare), and 12.36% (Twitter)
.
✤ The best times to post on LinkedIn are 8-10 AM and 12 PM on
Wednesdays, and 9 AM and 1-2 PM on Thursdays. Sunday is the
worst day for engagement