expose your best self online
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Expose Your Best Self Online
Using Social Media to enhance your job search
Viqui Dill @viqui_dill
STC WDCB Chapter @STCWDC April 21, 2015
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Icebreaker!
• Who are you?
– What are your super powers?
– What is your Kryptonite?
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Video Viqui
• Motto
– Th i s so f tware i s so sexy !
• Super powers
– user empathy
– warm yet energet i c vo i ce -
over
– impeccab le sense o f t im ing
• Kryptonite
– i so la t i on
– needs co f f ee to per fo rm
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Your best self
• Accent your superpowers
– Career advice from the Career Sherpa
– Create a home on the web
• Know your Kryptonite
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Career advice from the Career Sherpa
• Career Sherpa, Hannah Morgan – http://careersherpa.net/
– http://www.linkedin.com/in/hannahmorgan
– https://www.facebook.com/careersherpa
– https://twitter.com/careersherpa
• Job search
• Reputation management
• Social media – LinkedIn is primary
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Create a home on the web
• Blog your content and information – http://www.hylawrence.com/– https://viquidill.wordpress.com/ (free) – http://techcommgeekmom.com/– http://andreajwenger.com/– http://www.technicalcommunicationcenter.com/– http://thebookshelfofemilyj.com/– http://writing.rocks/
• Start with a blog – Blog your social media contact links and set up crossposts– Blog your writing – Blog your presentations from http://www.slideshare.net/
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Know your Kryptonite
• Clean house online
– View your profile as an outsider
– Focus on what to show. Worry less about what not to show.
– Google yourself and set up alerts
• https://www.google.com/alerts
– Get to know about EdgeRank
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EdgeRank
• https://www.facebook.com/help/327131014036297/
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Online resources
• LinkedIn • Job boards
– http://jobs.stcwdc.org/– http://www.stc.org/job-bank
• Hashtags on twitter – #TechComm– #eLearning– #ContentStrategy– #DCTech– #STCorg
Connect with me
• Bio http://wdcb.stcwdc.org/about-us/chapter-bios/dill-bio/
• Blog https://viquidill.wordpress.com/
• @viqui_dillhttps://twitter.com/viqui_dill
• Linked Inhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/viquidill
• Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/viqui.dill
• SlideSharehttp://www.slideshare.net/viqui_dill
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