How To Use Social Media In Your Career And Business by Kimberly Jean Fricke

1. How To Use Social Media In Your Career And Business by Kimberly Jean Fricke Getting Ahead In The Work Place Many of us are fortunate enough to be able to work and for many of us, it instills a sense of purpose and pride along with a paycheck that allows us to pay our bills and basically finance the lifestyle that we lead. Through working we gain the benefit of knowing how much money we can expect in our bank accounts at the end of the pay period and from there work out a budget to spend on the necessary bills and hopefully have some left over to have a lifestyle dependant on our preferences. To some, excess funds in our account will allow us to ask a certain someone out on a date, pay for a ticket to the cinema or buy that new pair of shoes that were in the store window this morning. As a member of the older generation this was how it was for me until I was recognized for the hard work and hours that I put in and then my first promotion came and along with it a slightly larger pay pack and a slightly better quality of life. And so I worked harder and put in more hours, after all, I had been promoted and had more responsibilities. Today the playing field has been moved from the hours worked and the effort made to a new generation of worker. This new generation is socially and technically savvy who understand the importance of technology not only in the workplace but in the social sphere as well. We have entered a new work realm where you are not only judged on first impressions and your performance at an interview but also your sociality as demonstrated by your online footprint as demonstrated through your social media such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to name a few. How To Use Social Media In Your Career And Michigan Business. Now that the era of self-social media is upon us many are lamenting those social posts that do not portray them in a good light as HR processes are now requesting access to these on a more regular basis. So how do you improve your chances of being recruited or promoted in today's tech world? The answer is to recognize the systems in which we now work and to leverage this to our benefit by ensuring that instead of portraying our selves online in content that our friends and possibly enemies would enjoy viewing that we instead portray as more worthy citizens and post the better side of ourselves. For those starting out in the workforce or seeking a company move in the future, I suggest that you take a moment to think about the benefits of How to Use Social Media in your career and business dealings and begin to build a stronger social fan score base for your future postings and tagging in the online world. The benefits to those that take time to get this right are many and in today's world of social attention, being noticed for the right reasons pays dividends for those that take the time to get it right.