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How To Use Social Networking To Boost Your Career By Alison Doyle

How To Use Social Networking To Boost Your Career
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Social networking can be an integral part of your job search or career building – if you use it correctly. If you don’t, even information you consider private like a photo posted on Facebook or a random comment on Twitter, could cost you your job and unexpectedly damage your career.

Here’s how to use social networking to boost your career from About.com’s Career Channel Guides. You’ll also find tips on what you shouldn’t do when it comes to social media and your career – and that’s just as important as what you should do.


Using Social Networking To Boost (or Bust) Your Career


10 Reasons Social Media Should Rock Your World

Social media participation is an essential tool in networking with potential professional contacts, staying in touch with current and former contacts, recruiting employees, advancing your career, and keeping in touch with the world from About.com Guide to Human Resources, Susan Heathfield.


How to Use Social Media to Boost Your Health Career

What is social media and how can it be optimized in the health care industry? Can social media help you find a medical job or help you advance your health career, or make your job more efficient? Learn more about using social medial in the health care industry from About.com Guide to Health Careers, Andrea Santiago.


Your After-Work Behavior Can Harm Your Job or Career

Your behavior after work can harm your job or career. Find out what things you should refrain from doing from About.com’s Career Planning Guide, Dawn Rosenberg McKay.


Using Social Networking in Your Internship Search

Social networking sites are great for keeping up with friends across the globe and can also be advantageous in the internship or job search.


Protecting Your Privacy Online

Although social networking sites offer many advantages to college students, they can also pose a threat to protecting an individual’s privacy online.


Using Social Media in the IT Workplace

Should you be accessing Facebook or Twitter while on the job? Research suggests a good number of workplaces are actually banning employees from visiting social networking sites for any reason while on the job from About.com Guide to Tech Careers, Patricia Pickett.


Social Networking for Lawyers and Legal Professionals

Networking has always been key to building professional relationships and finding a job. The advent of web-based social media has taken networking a step further. A recent survey found that social networking has the potential to change the business and practice of law over the next five years. Here’s more from from About.com Guide to Legal Careers, Sally Kane.


Social Networking for Writers

It’s not enough to set up an engaging website: you have to get online and promote it. Here’s how to get started from Ginny Wiehardt, About.com Guide to Fiction Writing.


The Best Social Networking Sites for Job Searching

Use these top social and professional networking sites to enhance your career and boost your job search, and learn how to use social networking sites to job search.



LinkedIn


How to Use LinkedIn

How to use LinkedIn as part of your job search, including how to increase your visibility and connections, so employers and recruiters can find you.


Use LinkedIn for Recruiting Employees

Looking for a new job or to advance your career? LinkedIn is a critical career networking tool for today’s savvy professionals. Here’s how employers are using LinkedIn to develop relationships with and recruit potential employees from About.com Guide to Human Resources, Susan Heathfield.


LinkedIn Tips for Healthcare Professionals

Whether you’re new to the site or a long-time member, this article About.com Guide to Health Careers, Andrea Santiago will help you maximize your networking success on LinkedIn. LinkedIn is an effective and user-friendly website for professional networking for job searching or career development.


Tips for Requesting LinkedIn Recommendations for Tech Job Seekers

When applying for a technical job – or any job, for that matter – that you found on LinkedIn, you may notice that the posting says “Applicants with recommendations are preferred.” Here’s how to ask for a recommendation from About.com Guide to Tech Careers, Patricia Pickett.


5 Simple Steps to Use LinkedIn for Networking for Working Moms

Using LinkedIn for networking can seem daunting. It shouldn’t be. Getting started using LinkedIn is as easy as picking a password. You’ll truly see the power of using LinkedIn once you build your list of connections. Here’s how from About.com Guide to Working Moms, Katherine Lewis.



Facebook


Facebook and Job Search Privacy Tips

If you are a Facebook user and are concerned about employers (or others) seeing the personal information that you have on Facebook, you can change your privacy settings so only certain people, like your friends or other students, can view your profile.


Job Search Facebook Apps

Just about everyone is using Facebook for personal networking, but you can use it for professional networking, as well. You can take advantage of all those friends you have and use Facebook Applications to enhance your job search.



Twitter


A Guide to Using Twitter

What is Twitter? How do you get started using it? What is a retweet? What is follow Friday? This Twitter guide, from About.com Guide to Web Trends, Daniel Nations, will explain the service, help you create an account, and guide you to popular Twitter applications.


Twitter Tips for Music Industry

Twitter has become more and more important to music industry, but to get the most bang for your buck, you’ve got to be smart about how you use it. This tips from About.com Guide to Music Careers, Heather McDonald, will help you maximize your Twitter success factor.


Tweet Your Way to a New Job – Or Not?

The buzz lately is all about Twitter. How Twitter is a great communication tool, which it is. How Twitter is a great way to connect with people, which it is. And how Twitter can help you get a job, which it can. Help is the optimal word though.


Twitter Job Search Tips

When you’re seeking employment, Twitter can be an effective part of your job search strategy. Used in conjunction with LinkedIn, job search engines, and other job sites, Twitter can help you make connections, find job listings, and build a personal brand that will help boost your career and expedite your job search.


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