{"id":1004,"date":"2015-03-14T15:01:53","date_gmt":"2015-03-14T15:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maybulmanontheweb.wordpress.com\/?p=84"},"modified":"2015-03-14T15:01:53","modified_gmt":"2015-03-14T15:01:53","slug":"reflective-summary-topic-3-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/uosm2008-2015\/2015\/03\/14\/reflective-summary-topic-3-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflective Summary: Topic 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

This topic has been incredibly insightful, particularly seeing as it is directly\u00a0applicable to my situation at the moment\u00a0as a final year student\u00a0thinking about future employment prospects.<\/p>\n

The statistics I found doing my research around the topic were pretty astounding. I hadn’t been aware that a whopping 99%\u00a0employers used LinkedIn to search potential employees, and the fact that the majority of them state that they have ruled out a candidate due to something negative they found online\u00a0really brings home the fact that online identity plays a huge role in one’s professional life.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, I’ve concluded that these stats shouldn’t scare us.<\/p>\n

Hayley, in\u00a0her blog<\/a>, discussed how important it is to “brand ourselves”, and provides a link to a video demonstrating her view that in order to\u00a0develop an authentic professional profile it is important to be active and relevant.\u00a0While she started the post with the line:\u00a0“Unfortunately,\u00a0our online behaviour is socially and culturally judged”, invoking that it’s a negative thing, I feel that\u00a0her findings actually showed that the visibility of our online identities is incredibly positive and exciting.<\/p>\n

While\u00a0Zia,\u00a0in\u00a0his blog<\/a>, listed the\u00a0minimum requirements for any online professional profile, implying that we must\u00a0“fit in” to what is expected, he also provided a video about being “attractive” and actually standing out to employers.<\/p>\n

I believe that this attempt to stand out, by going beyond the “minimum requirements” doing things such as blogging, providing a video, or anything that is specific to the field one wishes to pursue, is the way to get the best out of one’s professional online identity.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Making sure there’s nothing ‘negative’ on your online profiles is not hard. The real challenge is to make sure there are\u00a0really GOOD things on there.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n

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