2015, Page 6

Creating an authentic online Profile: are you interesting?

Even before my previous blog post about multiple online identities I knew that I should keep my personal and professional life separate. During my summer internship a colleague of mine suggested I set up a LinkedIn account to expand my professional network. However, setting it up was not as easy as I thought.  As you can see my profile is pretty boring and I do not think anyone would give it a second glance. Continue reading →

How to develop your authentic online professional profile

Following topic two’s discussion of online identities, online presence is essentially the product of all of all of them. Statistics reveal that 93% of recruiters use or plan to use social media in their recruiting efforts (Jobvite, 2014). As career hungry second and final year students, we should be aiming to develop a professional online presence. Continue reading →

Authentic Online Professional Profiles

Discuss the ways in which an authentic online professional profile can be developed 93% of recruiters plan to use social media to support their recruiting efforts according to Jobvite. This obviously shows that it is really important to build an authentic online professional profile, and this blog post will discuss the ways to do this. We already spend 4 hours a day online so lets make it count. Continue reading →

Developing an Authentic Online Professional Profile

If you google ‘authentic online professional profile’, the majority of the articles and videos that pop up related to this subject will mention the words ‘personal branding’. Continue reading →

Building a Professional Online Profile

Building an online presence can be tricky if you haven’t delved into it before. There are a few key things to keep in mind when developing your profile, of which some may seem obvious. The first step in developing your online presence needs to be to create a unique identifier for yourself. You need to stand […] The post Building a Professional Online Profile appeared first on Russell Kingsfield. Continue reading →

‘I don’t care if you’re super outgoing or actually mute’ – how important is an online professional profile?

How can we create an authentic online professional profile? Can something so subjective ever be truly ‘authentic’? With the number of graduates now at its highest, competition for the best careers is fierce. Consequently, we students and professionals must be proactive in showing potential employers our skills and desire in order to stand out from the crowd. But what exactly constitutes a professional profile? It all sounds very grand and formal but it often isn’t. Continue reading →

I’m Abraham Lincoln…..Promise

Taken from http://www.quoteswave.com/picture-quotes/116936 As we have explored before, the internet allows us to have many different identities online. Similarly, people can use our information to steal our identity. It is thus becoming more and more important to be able to prove the authenticity of online profiles particularly to potential employers. Continue reading →

Developing an Authentic Online Professional Profile

IS IT IMPORTANT TO HAVE AN AUTHENTIC ONLINE PROFESSIONAL PROFILE? YES! More now than ever before, and it’s only going to become more important, here are some interesting statistics that you should be aware of: 93% of recruiters use or plan to use social recruiting (Jobvite, 2014). 69% of recruiters expect hiring to become more competitive (Jobvite, 2014). A Microsoft study found 79% of employers will research their job candidate online (Hunt, 2013). Continue reading →

‘Twitter can ruin your life’. But does it have to?

“Voiceless people realised that they had a voice, and it was powerful,” says Jon Ronson in the opening of his TED talk. He discusses how Twitter has transitioned from a place of de-shaming to shaming, arguing that the immense power of social media means that just a single voice on these platforms can be heard and consequently abused/attacked/shamed/ by people all over the world… the impact of which, he says, can ‘ruin your life’. Continue reading →

General feedback on Topic 2

Please check your own googledoc for your individual feedback (it's the same one as for topic 1!) Thanks to all of you for some excellent discussions about online identity. Yes it is a huge area and impossible for one person to cover everything, but I hope you agree that collectively the group has produced a variety of interesting perspectives and resources on the topic. Continue reading →

When will the ‘Professional Profile’ become a ‘Professional Lifestyle’?

We are used to the humorous side of unprofessional things we do online, typified by the recent Barclays Digital Eagle Adverts. It’s tupacaintdead69@hotmail.co.uk… We are all now, whether we know it or not – building a professional online profile. Only a digital madman would post anything erring on the controversial side. The days of stirring up a hot debate on Facebook with an edgy status are gone. Continue reading →

One Online Identity or Many: A Reflection

The debate between the ideas of one online identity or many is one that is too complex and far reaching to ever be settled in one 400 word blog post. I felt like I took a balanced approach to the topic and covered some good topics, there were so many others that were brought up by my peers. Katie mentioned the idea of having multiple profiles to separate your personal and professional lives. Continue reading →

Reflection on Online Identities

The topic for debate this week was the arguments for and against having multiple online identities. My short blog merely scratched the surface of this topic; I highlighted that companies are able to analyse the data written online to build an online identity for yourself (which may not be a true representation) for what Todd described as “capitalist success”. Continue reading →

Topic 2 Reflection

When writing about this topic, I thought I had covered as much as possible within the word limit. However, after reading other students’ posts, I realised that i barely skimmed the surface of the subject! I interpreted the question as a personal one, so I wrote about the advantages and disadvantages, as an individual, of having one or more online identities. After reading other blog posts, it seems most people answered the question from a more general perspective. Continue reading →

Reflection on having multiple online identities

This fortnight my blog post focused on the positive and negative aspects of having multiple online identities which raises lots of ethical issues about privacy and the use of fake accounts. I found that Russell Kingsfield’s blog raised some very good points to do with the privacy aspect of this topic. He shows the problems that would come with having no anonymity online and how it would affect how whistleblowers are able to release information. Continue reading →

Reflecting Upon Topic 2

This is a topic that a lot of people from younger generations are quite familiar with, as the internet grows more and more popular as time goes by. After working and getting familiar with this topic, I have learned a lot more about why people have more than one identity and why having more than one identity can be harmful to others. To be specific, I learned more about catfishing by reading about it online and on Lphenix‘s and on Hollie‘s blogs. Continue reading →

Revisiting: Online Personas

When initially talking about this topic, I focused on the online personas that are created under a users own agency. After reading this post I realise that I forgot to look at one of the important aspects of online profiles, and that is the profiles that are created for us. This is something that expands on my previous point […] The post Revisiting: Online Personas appeared first on Russell Kingsfield. Continue reading →

Reflecting on Multiple Online Identities

This week’s topic has been particularly interesting and there has been a good variety of approaches. In my original blog post I discussed how multiple online identities can be used to manage your privacy online and also how anonymity and careful management can increase your personal security online. Continue reading →

Reflection of Topic 2

When I writing my topic 2 blog I thought my viewpoints are good. But when I watching my peer’s blogs, there are some viewpoints that I never think of them and I really learnt a lot. In my blog, I only discussed the online security and many people prefer to share their life and opinion without people knowing. Actually, these two ideas just a small part of advantages and disadvantages of many online identities. Continue reading →

Topic 2 Reflection: Leaving the Ball

Taken from http://www.occupy.com/article/learn-safeguard-internet-privacy-youre-007 Before starting this topic my prior experience consisted of attending talks at college where people advised us to be mindful of what we do and put on the internet, as we don’t know who may be looking. Continue reading →