The resources listed below are mostly hosted on external websites. The Careers and Employability Service website also has information on using social media in your job-seeking. Find out more.
Online professionalism and social media
| Mini Career Course: Linkedin: Building your Profile |
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LinkedIn is a professional networking platform which provides a multitude of opportunities for students and graduates to research and develop their career opportunities through making meaningful connections. This mini online course takes you through all the steps you need to get your profile ready to start connecting. |
| Mini Career Course: Connecting with LinkedIn |
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LinkedIn is a professional networking platform which provides a multitude of opportunities for students and graduates to research and develop their career opportunities through making meaningful connections. This mini online career course gives you an insight into how to maximise the value of engaging on LinkedIn for your career and professional development. |
| Developing your online personal brand |
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Follow these guidelines to review and develop your online personal brand and check you are making a good impression of yourself to employers. If you are using a mac you may encounter problems with the pdf, please use the word version instead.
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| Developing your online personal brand (word version for MAC users) |
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Follow these guidelines to review and develop your online personal brand and check you are making a good impression of yourself to employers. If you are using a mac you may encounter problems with the pdf, please use this word version instead.
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| Social media and job hunting (Prospects) |
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Advice on how to use social media accounts to your advantage and create an online profile that impresses employers. |
| Social Media for your Student and Graduate Job Search |
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Advice on how to use social media effectively to improve your job-seeking strategy.
This book is available to borrow from the Sir Duncan Rice Library. Please check the library catalogue for details. |
| Using LinkedIn for Career Research |
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This video explains how to use LinkedIn for Career Research |
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LinkedIn operates the world's largest professional network on the Internet with more than 100 million members in over 200 countries and territories. |
| The ultimate Linkedin cheat sheet (LeisureJobs) |
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Advice on how to create a Linkedin profile that will maximise your chances of impressing employers. |
| How to optimize your LinkedIn profile to get job offers (Zety) |
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Hints and tips for creating a LinkedIn Profile that will impress employers. |
| LinkedIn for Job Seekers: How to Optimize your LinkedIn Profile (Purdue University Global) |
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The resource guides readers through the process of creating a LinkedIn profile, offering specific tips to optimize each section. Some topics covered include tips for writing your headline, building your experience section, claiming a custom URL and adding relevant skills. |
| Social Media and Your Digital Identity - advice from Nokia and Milkround |
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Tips on how to maange your online presence.
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| Brand Yourself - free online profile checker |
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This free online tool allows you to check and clean-up how you appear in internet search results. |
| Boost your career with a perfect LinkedIn profile picture (passport-photo.online) |
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This article contains useful advice on how to add a picture to your LinkedIn profile that will create a good impression with employers. It talks about the importance of selecting a professional photo and offers handy tips on what to avoid. There is a link to an online tool that you can use to create the right type of picture. |
| How to write a LinkedIn summary: experts comment (OutwitTrade) |
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Writing a strong summary for your LinkedIn profile will help to capture the interest of employers. In this article various working professionals have contributed advice and tips on writing an effective summary. |