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Pathways to Professionalism

As we delve deeper into the 21st century, we have to find a balance between recreational and professional usage of social media platforms, as our online presence is becoming a more and more intrinsic part in the job hunting and recruitment process. Huang et al. (2015) stated that creating an organised visualisation of our person is an indispensible method in making positive advancements to our lives. Continue reading →

Topic 3: Hard Working Graduate Desperately Seeking Employment

As we all near Graduation and our entrance into the ‘Real World’ draws ever closer, our Social Media habits must adapt and change to reflect this. Instead of filling our newsfeeds with photos of last Wednesday’s Social people are starting to dedicate time to creating, updating and maintaining LinkedIn profiles. On average we spend nearly 4 hours per day on Social Media, this equates to almost half a working day (Nyman, 2014). Continue reading →

Topic 3: Climb Online with Self-Branding

[1]What comes into your mind when you hear the phrase online professional profile? LinkedIn right. You could not be more wrong. I am not advertising LinkedIn but do you know that LinkedIn operates the world’s largest professional network on the Internet [2] I bet you even have an account with them. Okay now concentrate as I discuss the ways in which an authentic online professional profile can be developed. Continue reading →

Topic 2 Summery Reflection

It was a fascinating discussion over the last two weeks about positive and negative sides of having more than one online identity. I had some experience about the topic, however it broadens my knowledge when I read about it from the giving sources and researched on my own. I learned that individuals needs multiple online identities in order to stay anonymous and separate their personal life where they post friendly and informal comments from professional identity. Continue reading →

Reflective Summary: Topic 2

This topic has been a bit of a whirlwind for me. The term ‘Multiple Online Identities’ seemed, on the outset, to be such a simple concept, yet there are some really deep questions that much be considered when debating the pros and cons. While I was quick to consider the concept of online anonymity, I initially thought only about the risks it entails, such as cyberbullying and catfishing. Continue reading →

Topic 2 – Reflection

This topic was a lot broader than I first anticipated. From looking at some of the other blog posts I can clearly see that. There were a lot of different views on this subject and everyone had a different way to target this question. I personally like the way Bartosz targeted the question at hand. He gave a view of how we would act in real life to different social groups and then added upon this by linking it with online identities. Continue reading →

Topic 2 = Reflecting on Online Identity

Having a one or more than one online identity in my opinion is a personal choice, but some people sees that as security risks. That makes what point of view you are looking at that. Out of my reading from my classmate blogs I have come a cross a conclusion that some people prefer use social networks like Facebook, Twitter or Google accounts for personal use and where as LinkedIn for professional use. Continue reading →

Topic 2: Reflective Summary

It has been an interesting discussion over these two weeks since this is an issue which the argument could go both ways and I have enjoyed reading others’ blog posts and have seen a lot of different perspectives on this particular topic. Namat’s blog post extended my thinking of who have the power of manipulating ones’ online identities. In fact, not only ourselves have the power of controlling our own online identities, others have the power of doing so too. Continue reading →