Your Job and Your Online Image: It’s Complicated

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Albers Communications Group PR Specialist Alison Paladino shares information about why protecting your image in the online world is vital to both your professional and personal lives. View the live presentation of this webinar: http://youtu.be/45JThCQ-OlA

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Your Job and Your Online Image: It’s Complicated

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About Albers Communications Group

• Full-service PR, digital marketing and communications agency

• Specialize in integrated strategies• Represent clients in all 50 states and Canada• Work with Omaha’s leading organizations• Create national and local market exposure

Today’s Presenter

• Alison Paladino, Public Relations Specialist• Alison@AlbersCommunications.com • @alisonpaladino

Our Big Idea

Today’s Topics

• What Omaha-area businesses are saying about their employees’ social media habits

• How you can become an advocate for your company online

• How to use your social media profiles to support your résumé and work towards your next level position

• Questions and discussion

Omaha Research Results

Survey Methodology• 200 telephone interviews• Human Resources professionals• Douglas, Sarpy and Pottawattamie counties• Margin of error is +/-6.9% at a 95% confidence level

Omaha Research Results

89%

75%65%

Social Media and Your Career

Social Media and Your Career

Omaha Research Results

87%

59%51%

Social Media and Your Company

Social Media and Your Career

Omaha Research Results

78%

36%

16%

Employer Trends in Social Media

Employer Trends in Social Media

Becoming an Advocate

Think Before You Update• Grammar counts• Photo check• No controversy• Click cautiously

Becoming an Advocate

Content that Keeps Employers Up at Night• Comments critical of the competition• Photos that show drug use• Comments critical of the company or its employees

Becoming an Advocate

Top Social Media Skills Employers Seek• Knowing what content is appropriate to post• How to effectively be an advocate for the company

online• How to use multiple social media platforms

Becoming an Advocate

Interact With Your Company• Like, Follow and Connect• Interact• Re-post and Re-tweet

Reach the Next Level

• Take photos at professional events• Share industry relevant news• Post free opportunities from your company• Spread the news about career opportunities• Talk about your volunteer work

Reach the Next Level

• Don’t sell• Resist over-updating• Be friendly to the competition• Omit client details

Reach the Next Level

Reach the Next Level

Top Factors Prospective Employers Review• Professionalism displayed on job candidate’s social

media profiles.• How candidates talk about previous employers• Whether candidate has a positive or negative reputation

online• The maturity level of the content and photos they post

Social Media – A New Kind of Résumé

Social Media – A New Kind of Résumé

• Use social media to paint the picture of yourself as a valued employee

• Provide the highlight reel to show your well-rounded personal and professional image

• Develop social media as a soft skill

Albers Webinar Series

Research: The Beginning and The Endwith Tom Albers

July 23, 2014 @ 10 a.m.

Register at www.alberscommunications.com/learning-opportunities

Questions and Discussion

Your Job and Your Online Image: It’s Complicated

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