{"id":397,"date":"2011-07-21T11:00:09","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T15:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/~career\/blog\/?p=397"},"modified":"2011-07-21T11:00:09","modified_gmt":"2011-07-21T15:00:09","slug":"socialmedia-and-careers-developing-your-social-media-presence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/socialmedia-and-careers-developing-your-social-media-presence\/","title":{"rendered":"#socialmedia and Careers: Developing Your Social Media Presence"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here in Career Services, we\u2019ve been talking a lot about our online presence.\u00a0 Social Media has increasingly become a major force in today\u2019s job market.\u00a0 Employers are using Twitter and Facebook to post open positions. Job seekers and long time professionals are connecting in special interest and industry specific groups on LinkedIn. Interviews are being conducted on Skype and we have yet to see how emerging technologies like Google+ will factor in.<\/p>\n

While we\u2019re excited about the ways that we use these platforms in our office, we\u2019re also eager to work with you on how to create and manage your own social media presences.\u00a0 Even though most students are engaged with some type of social media at this point, have you considered how you might use these mediums as tools in your job search and career process?<\/p>\n

Career Sherpa developed a 3-part series earlier this summer highlighting some of the strategies that can be most effective when developing your social media profile, including:<\/p>\n