How Social Media Can Advance Your Career - GennGlobal

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INTRODUCTION

Social media has become unquestionably important to both businesses and professionals looking for jobs.

While having social media savvy can absolutely make you a more valuable job candidate, there are other ways that social media can help advance your career.

Next, we will discuss several ways that you can advance your career using social media.

GETTING A JOB

The most common way that social media can help your career is to get you a job.

Networking websites like LinkedIn provide the ability to meet other professionals in relevant fields.

These connections are becoming more and more relevant, as many employers provide privilege to applicants that are personally referred.

GETTING A JOB

Additionally, you can use social media as an extension of your resume.

For example, Dawn Siff was the first person to use Vine to create a quick “elevator pitch.” You can do the same to explain your professional

qualifications effectively and efficiently online. Simply put, social media provides you with the

opportunity to create content and display other professional skills for all of the world to see. What’s unique about social media in this regard is

that you don’t need a job to do so. You can simply and effectively promote yourself and jump-start your career—from nothing, if necessary.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Not only can social media get you a job, it can also enhance and refine the skills you already have.

Social media can teach responsibility and consistency (through monitoring and posting on a regular schedule), as well as teaching the values of both quantitative and qualitative work and where these two worlds intersect.

Lastly, if nothing else, you gain skills that you can add to your CV that will make you a more valuable candidate in the future!