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This week brought an insight into the importance of development of online professional identity. What struck me during preparations for writing my own post, but also while reading others contributions was the extent to which recruiters use social media and online search to review candidates. Which leaves us, the job-seekers of some sort, with no choice but to curate our professional online profile. Throughout this week, I believe I have taken a crash-course in the basic principles of doing so. Continue reading →

This topic has been incredibly insightful, particularly seeing as it is directly applicable to my situation at the moment as a final year student thinking about future employment prospects. The statistics I found doing my research around the topic were pretty astounding. Continue reading →

As a student, seeking a 12 month placement as part of my degree, this topic was very interesting to me. Now more than ever, the need to remain professional both in person and online has intensified. Here is where I really enjoyed May’s post. She used statistics to further her point which made it easier for me to see the correlation and the impact that a professional online identity has on employability. Continue reading →

This weeks topic was really interesting as it had me thinking of my own authenticity online, in terms of a professional profile. Nicole made a very good point when she commented on my post. She questioned whether or not I agreed that our true personalities become overshadowed online by steering towards a ‘professional’ lifestyle. Continue reading →

For me, the key leaning point from this topic was the need to ensure that your professional profile showcases your personality, not just your skills. This was a point emphasised by Charles Hardy (the speaker on Aliyu’s video). I created my LinkedIn profile a few weeks ago, and looking at it now I realise that it really doesn’t show who I am as a person. Continue reading →

Unlike the two previous topics, I’ve found this the most thought-provoking. It made me think about the future. The thought of being employed, in the real world, with a full time responsibility where I’d make five to six figures a year got me worried. I realised  that unlike the previous topics, I shouldn’t just stop at reading two or three blog posts by others so I read pretty much all of my collegue’s blogs for this topic. Continue reading →

As a final year student at the university, knowing how to improve my employability is really important to me since I have to get a job soon after I graduated. Before looking into topic 3, I was one of the people who only believes in heading in CV and doing well in an interview. However, after writing this week blog post, I have changed my initial thoughts. Continue reading →

This topic was interesting for me since I have social networking profiles. While researching and looking at classmates’ blogs, I realised the time that creating a suitable profile can take. This topic has enabled me to appreciate authenticity in general and it also shows how much effort individuals put to be authentic in a diverse online culture. I really liked the idea that everyone had a different approach towards this topic, which resulted in better understanding of the topic. Continue reading →

This week’s blog post took me a little longer than usual to gather my thoughts – I got distracted by wanting to read more facts and articles, whilst being attracted to articles about graduate jobs (behaviour typical of a final year university student, unfortunately!). However, my additional research did lead me to two insightful videos, which I finally discovered how to embed within the body of my text. Continue reading →