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At the end of the day…. Source: Google Images I learnt that maintaining a professional digital profile is absolutely necessary in the current era that we live in now. Employers are turning to social recruitment as their primary method of assessing talents. Thus, it is of utmost importance to craft a professional online presence to extend one’s reachability to the masses. It is easy to craft a favourable self-image on your online profile. Continue reading →

(Credits: Google) From Topic 3, I realised that my learning has expanded tremendously in other areas. From KaiYuan’s blog, his video emphasized on the importance of having and creating your social network. It was also a point where fresh graduates or job seekers lack of. As what Aliah D. Wright has mentioned, candidates with a stronger social background has a positive correlation with getting recruited. Continue reading →

In Topic 3, we were tasked to outline ways that a person can develop an authentic profile online. The way that I angled my post what to use clear steps to let people know how they can develop an authentic online profile, from start to finish. One of my colleagues who used a similar format is Jue Yin. Her steps were very structured and concise. Continue reading →

After reading several blog posts, I realized that a handful of my colleagues (i.e. Easter, Wan Chyng, Yi Shin etc) have mentioned that we should filter what we post online, go back and delete any inappropriate materials that we had posted on any social media and make sure we don’t post anything we wouldn’t want employers to see.  And then we come to talk about authenticity. Continue reading →

In reference to Yixin’s blog post, I picked up on the usefulness and effectiveness of a video resume! I realized that it is a relevant social tool that I did not considered before. Continue reading →

This topic has aided me to understand the key importance of why developing an authentic online professional profile is so important in the current digital world and what we can do to stand out from the rest. It’s not something that should be overlook and we should always bear in mind of what is posted on our profiles, knowing that consequences can be undesirable. Continue reading →

So how exactly do you go about creating an authentic online professional profile? On my end, I focused huge portion of my post on blogs because I felt that they were kind of like a one-stop shop where future employers could get to know everything they wanted to about the potential employee-in-question. Continue reading →

Click image for source Read some blog posts that caught my attention and sparked me to look into the question in more than one way.  As most of the posts are talking about the link with authentic online professional profile with personal branding which i shared the same perspective as them. Continue reading →

Discussions on how we can create our authentic digital profiles have given me more thoughts on what comes with it, what comes after it, and what comes and STAYS for long. Having read Constance’s views on having multiple online identities to remain professional, it is rational why we should do that. However, Wan Chyng’s views have given me another set of views that has never came across my mind. Continue reading →

After reading this article: http://www.theemployable.com/index.php/2014/10/28/blogging-can-help-get-job/ I have decided that I do want to set up a blog based on my interests. I would love to have a career in Human Resource, so I would love to start blogging about topics about the human psyche and talk about various issues that have happened in various organisations or the different employee retention policies different organisations have. Continue reading →