Social Media for Job Search

For Worklink Employment Society With Sheny Gregory

web: shenygregory.com https://ca.linkedin.com/in/shenygregory

twitter.com/shenyker @shenyker

Warm up Time

Be ready to catch things flying at you!

Who remembers when...?

Telephones - Party lines? Rotary phones? Long cords to walk around the kitchen? Then cordless land lines? Who still has a land line phone? Who only has cell phones?

• Written Communication

Old school Typewriters? Typing class? Carbon copy? (not photocopier) Newspaper? Canada Post letters, postcards?

Who remembers when...?

• Written Communication cont’d…

Fax Machines first came in?

Electronic typewriters?

(with autocorrect,

no more typing correction tape

Halleluyah!

• Communication

Televisions? Colour vs B&W?

Having to get up to change

the channel?

Original big brick cell phones?

Enter Internet... www...

Enter interne

• 1980’s first PC’s and MAC’s.• www created in 1989• 1990’s dawn of email and internet used for e-learning.• 1990’s became a staple in university, colleges to use for

emailing

History of Internet

www Still had to go to the library and use the dewy decimal system to find books

2000’s Businesses adopt eLearning for a way to train employees.

2010’s Social Online Learning, Youtube, Skype, massive online learning opportunities. Anytime. Anywhere.

The Plan...warning may go off topic & follow questions path

Warm upFacebook safety tips: personal vs professionalLinkedin - as a professional, for your job seeker clientsTwitter - what the heck is it useful for?Take Action....Next steps?

Facebook.com

Social Media Club Cowichan ValleyWorklink Employment SocietyViatech - Victoria one of BC’s big Technology pocketsYour choice?Personal vs Professional

Linkedin 347 million users2 new linkedin members per secondLinkedin’s goal 3 billion users187 million users in USA200 countries and territories reachAvailable in 20 languages380 million skills added to profiles

Who has an account? With a recent photo?Who has over 300 connections? More?Who has an all-star profile?See profiles, connections, jobsReview what companies are on Linkedin

Twitter.com Tweet – 140 character limit, visible to everyone who follows you and to everyone following the hashtags(#) you include

• Follow – Following someone on Twitter means you are subscribing to their Tweets

• Retweet – Reposting something that someone else has posted.

• Feed – A stream of updates from users we follow.

• Handle – Username @CowichanYouth @shenyker

• Hashtag (#) - A hashtag is a discovery tool that allows others to find your tweets, based on topics **slide created by Kerri Anderson

• Viatech Worklink me Company of your choice?

Take ActionPartner up: Look at Linkedin, Twitter and FacebookFind one piece of info from each SM site on a company you (or your client) wants to work forShare back with the bigger group your findings....Close out: your next step to SM saaviness? Share with group.

Thank youFor more resources: http://www.slideshare.net/shenykershenygregory.comlinkedin/shenygregory@shenykershenygregory@gmail.comI look forward to reconnecting!