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Social Media in your Job/Internship Search:The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Why Does this Matter?

Don’t Be Like Kevin!

FIRED!!!

Anywhere from 45% to 80% of employers are using the internet to

pre-screen candidates

35% of employers reported they have found content on social

networking sites that caused them not to hire the candidate.

Why Employers Disregarded Candidates After Screening Online

8% of employers reported they have found content on social networking sites that caused them to hire the candidate.

Why Employers Hired Candidates After Screening Online

According to a recent survey by the Department of Labor, networking accounts for at least 69% of all

annual hires.

Networking is one of the BEST ways to find a job or internship.

Building real relationships, actively maintaining them, and giving as

much as you take.

Networking

What is Social Media?

“Social media describes the online technologiesand practices that people use to share content, opinions, insights, experiences, perspectives, and media themselves.”

Social media is…EditablePopular

A conversationFast

Historical

Ironic Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_medi

• More than 350 million active users • 50% of our active users log on to Facebook in any given day

How to Use Facebook in Your Job/Internship Search

The most efficient way to use Facebook in your job/internship search is to update your status with relevant information.

(For example, if your looking for a job/internship and you let your friends know, they will want to help you—perhaps by

passing along a contact that they know is hiring.)

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets.

What the Heck is it?

Short, sweet and to the point.140 characters (not words, not letters, characters) to say what you

want to say to your followers.

How Can it Help My Job Search?

• 14,000,000+ Professionals

• 500,000+ Senior Executives

• Executives from 498 Fortune 500 companies

• 65,000 new professionals every week

• Average experience level: 15 yrs

You can’t win the lottery, if you don’t buy a ticket!

Jennifer Fisher Culture and Retention Manager

jfisher@dekko.comGroup Dekko

Twitter: JenfisherfwBlog: www.generationalsoup.com

www.fwchamber.org/grad

Thank You!!!