Digital Footprints @ LSE
Supporting Students to Use Social Media
Judith Baines, Careers AdviserMatt Lingard, Learning TechnologistLondon School of Economics
Today’s topics
Our current offerings Digital Footprint Workshop Keeping-up-to-date hands-on LinkedIn Webinar
Future Plans
Digital Footprint Workshop
Lunchtime presentation 50-mins 40-80 students Co-presented
Title: Digital Footprints: Using the Internet to enhance your career prospects
First ran in January 2009
Why?
What are going to cover?
• Keeping up to date with employer and sector news
• Your Digital Footprint– Beware!– Develop your online presence
• On-line networking
Why this is important?
• Researching careers– Peer feedback on recruitment process– Chat to employers re. recruitment process– Improve commercial awareness
• Creative job hunting
• Employers look for you
• Promoting yourself
KPMG UK Graduate RecruitmentCompany Page
KPMG YouTube Channel
Talk to KPMG StaffKPMG UK & more
Keeping Up With Employer& Sector News
Keeping Up To Date
• Feeds & News Readers
• Google Alerts (Email)
• Blog Search Tools
First Find Your Footprint
Google Yourself!
Then automate it…
Protect Your Reputation• Keep it Private
• Do you want employers, lecturers, colleagues to see it?
• Check Social Networking Privacy Settings
Taking Advantage
• Build a positive online presence
• Expand your network
Taking Advantage
Social networking Profiles Networking
Commenting & Asking Questions
Blogging
Joining up Your Profile
• Link your sites together
• Add selected web links to:– CV– Business card– Email signature
Outlook > Options > Mail > Signatures…
Netiquette
• Be polite; think about your approach
• Make connections
• Build the relationship over time
• Be sincere
• Decide on boundaries
Hands-on Workshop
PG Students Dept. Workshop Learning
Technology Staff Computer Lab
1) Feeds & News Readers
2) Delicious Bookmarking
LinkedIn Webinar
Online Web Conference (Wimba Classroom) 12 Participants
6 on campus, 6 off campus
Option to ask questions via audio or text
LinkedIn Webinar - Topics
What is Linkedin? Why use it? Your Profile - Get Noticed Get Connected Researching & Getting More
Connected!
Linkedin Webinar – 4th November
We will start at 1:05pm.
Before the Linkedin presentation begins there will be an introduction to using Wimba.
Please be patient! With fewer visual clues, responses online can be slower than in a face-to-face session!
The webinar will be presented by Judith Baines & Matt Lingard
While you are waiting…
You might want to watch “Linkedin: What’s all the fuss about?”
Go to: http://tinyurl.com/lselinkedin and look for:
The webinar will be recorded & will be made available in Moodle in the LSE Careers information &presentations course.
Questions?
You can type in the text chat or raise your hand if you want to speak
Your Profile - Get Noticed
• Create a complete profile– Keep it up-to-date
• Get Recommendations
• Use Updates
• Link it together
Updates• Update your status at least once a week
Personalise your connections
What to do if they don’t respond
Requests from other people
Researching Employers
• Company Pages– Jobs that exist there– “Follow” for news– Window into the
company’s culture
What we learnt!
Webinar Feedback “A really useful talk and a great way to
communicate with the careers service”
Webinar Format LinkedIn Best practice
Recommendations Personalising initial contact Keywords
(Possible) Future Plans
Continue with main presentation & LinkedIn webinar
More hands-on More topics.. Different format
LinkedIn Surgery
Links & Contact
http://www.diigo.com/list/mattlingard/asml
Judith: [email protected] Matt: [email protected]