Fastest way to keep or lose a job using social media

Though social media, has great advantages on gaining a job, maintaining a job, and making your job or business successful. It is also a medium used to lose the job you have worked so hard to gain, fast.

Also, most people wonder why they cannot get white collar jobs, and are never called back after their first interview seemed to go quite promising. First of all, we must know that what we put out there on the media plays a huge role in whether we will get that paralegal job or that marketing job.

Now when you do go for an interview, some bosses google you online. They will google you on how you portray yourself using social media, and what your opinions are on certain matters, before you are employed. For example, if you want to work in a law firm or corporation defending abused women and children, the firm or corporation would definately want to know what your personal or religious beliefs are on these matters. You might not tell them the whole truth about your personal opinions on these sort of matters. This is where social media could go against or in your favor. These bosses will not hesitate to google you, or look you up on facebook, twitter, or myspace. This can just give them the information they need about you.

Here are a few tips we should probably consider before we go for a job interview;

To have a positive martketing;

Have clean-cut pictures of you on the web where you are smiling.
Join professional blogs such as Charlie Rose, Business Week and others.
Do volunteer work and [be] an official member of the organization, thus getting on the website and, subsequently having Google index your name.
Proofread everything you write.
Keep most correspondence factual and not too biased. Everyone has their opinions and they don't need to hear yours, especially in the office.

If you want to still be among the high umemployment rate. Here are some negative marketing you should not engage yourself in;

Include bad pictures of yourself on any format including social media or putting up pictures with a group of friends in a party atmosphere. By doing this, you are marketing yourself as someone who waits all day to hit the bars at 5:30. While this rule does not apply to most executive level job seekers, believe it or not, it applies to some.
Quit chatting on Linked-In, Facebook, etc. every 5 minutes. Doing this markets you to the public as someone who has nothing else better to do. Also, the comments get emailed to too many people too many times and you appear lazy as this time should be spent searching for a job. Hint: blogging is not a way to search. The same goes for any other social media platforms. Keep the blogging to 2 - 3 times per week.
Maintaining a blog that expresses personal opinions and discusses your social life including dating, drinking, money and just about anything else you would not want an employer to see. Remember, the responses to your posts, although done by other people, can reflect poorly on you.
No negativity. Do not complain about your current employment situation or any other facet of your life. You may not know it, but this markets you as someone who does not have enough self-reliance to take care of any problems that you may have both professionally and personally.
Discussing politics online. You don't want anyone to brand

This is a very serious crisis and I hope no one will choose the latter. The world is watching everything we make public, especially on the social media. It is expedient that we screen whatever we make public.

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