Students » Step 5: Turn Relationships Into Opportunities - LinkedIn Learning Center:
Can networking really help you get a job?
More than 70% of jobs are found through networking. LinkedIn can help you:
- Find jobs through postings on LinkedIn and tap your network to get a leg up
- Reach out to your existing network to find unlisted opportunities
- Find your way “in” by using company pages, groups, and search
Students » Step 4: Grow Your Professional Network - LinkedIn Learning Center:
What if you don’t know any “real” professionals?
You already have a professional network if you look in the right places:
Join a LinkedIn Group now.
- Start by connecting to friends and family, then move on to alumni connections
- Join LinkedIn groups for your alumni and the industry you’d like to work in
- Request introductions from your connections to grow your network, gain advice, and open doors to new opportunities
LinkedIn is a place to learn about careers – from businesses and professionals happy to share.
Students » Step 3: Find Your Career Passion - LinkedIn Learning Center:
What do you want to be when you grow up?
Your LinkedIn network can help you figure out what you want to do
Upload your address book and start connecting.
- Search LinkedIn to learn about career paths, industries, and geographic locations
- Engage with industry groups to keep up on hot topics and trends
- Visit company pages and follow companies to see who’s coming and going
It's never too early to start building your business brand.
Students » Step 2: Build Your Professional Brand - LinkedIn Learning Center:
What do people see when they Google you?
LinkedIn gives you more control over the information people learn about you online:
Update your profile now.
- Be aware that employers use social networks as part of their scouting activities
- Focus on an appropriate photo, smart headline, and rich summary
- Reach out to faculty and summer employers to get great recommendations
If LinkedIn is Your Next Resume, it's time to get started learning how to use LinkedIn.
Students » Step 1: Get Started with LinkedIn - LinkedIn Learning Center:
What is LinkedIn and why should you join?
LinkedIn is the leading professional network on the web, enabling you to:
- Connect with classmates, faculty, and family professionally
- Find new opportunities for internships and full time positions
- Manage what potential employers learn about you from the Internet
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In the college application, you’re a teen-age saint who tutors the underprivileged and picks up trash in the park. Online, you’re a party guy or gal flashing gang signs and strewing beer cans.
College admissions officers are looking at applicants’ Facebook profiles, according to Kaplan’s 2010 College Admissions Survey. (Here’s an infographic.) They also check Twitter and YouTube. Sixty-two percent said social-media profiles usually help applicants get accepted; 38 percent said online profiles hurt students’ chances.
Probing the uses of nine different types of social media among professors, the study found that professors consider YouTube the most useful tool by far -- for both teaching and non-classroom professional use. Nearly a third of respondents said they instructed students to watch online videos as homework, and about 73 percent said they thought YouTube videos were either somewhat or very valuable for classroom use, regardless of whether they use them currently.
Other Web 2.0 tools fared less well among the professors -- particularly the tools with the most currency in broader culture. Only 2 percent of the professors said they used Twitter in class, and another 2 percent said they used it for professional purposes outside the classroom. Slightly more said they could see at least some value in the microblogging site, but those long-sellers still amounted to less than a tenth of all respondents.
Facebook, too, is tapped in class or for homework assignments only rarely, even if many professors use the site for personal or professional networking. Faculty rate the site's long-term prospects in the classroom only slightly above Twitter's, with 15 percent submitting that it is at least somewhat valuable.
Many professors -- 53 percent and 46 percent, respectively -- think that Twitter and Facebook not only lack pedagogical value but in fact harm classroom learning. (They did not say why.)
Last month we published an infographic on the international language of business based on a study that Citrix Online commissioned from Forrester Consulting. Today we're happy to launch the results of that study. The study yielded surprising findings related to generational and cultural working behaviors that impact how businesses communicate and collaborate in an increasingly dispersed workplace, and the implications for the future competitiveness of SMBs.
Key Findings
The study asked information workers of all ages in the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany and Australia about their business communication habits.
Gen Y does not have the monopoly on technology use and social tools during the work day. Meanwhile, the older generation is getting with the program.
The younger you are, the less you value meetings - and pay attention.
Americans have more meetings - and pay more attention.
The in-person meeting is alive and well, but not necessarily effective.
In an era of multitasking, it's still considered rude in a meeting.
We still like to look each other in the eye.
- Why? To read body language, say 78%.
Usage among users of collaborative technologies is rising fast.
If you would like to download a copy of the report, you can find it posted in our Downloads section here.
- 64% of those who use social networking tools in business use them more than last year. Video chat, team document-sharing sites and web conferencing also experienced significant increases in usage, with 56%, 55% and 52% respectively.
Here is a great video interview with Clay Shirky (author of Here Comes Everybody) from GRIT TV on how Social Media is changing everything from news and media to business and communication as we know it (this is well worth the 24 minutes):
beginning in Fall 2009, City College will be offering an online class to hone your social networking skills with "Social Media and Social Networking," taught by Library Director Kenley Neufeld. Steven W. DaVega, director of the School of Media Arts Mobile Media Institute, implemented the course.
"It's a chance to explore some new technologies and help develop the future," Neufeld said.
The class will integrate different social networking Web sites that apply not only to self-promotion, but also to media, business and marketing.
"It's really the most relevant thing you can do," DaVega said. He added that teaching a networking class in a multimedia program is new for colleges. DaVega said that while other colleges have offered a social networking class in library sciences or applied communication, this class will focus on applied media.
