CAREER TRACK TUESDAYS - HOW TO STAND OUT FROM THE CROWD

Hermione Berry & Tricia Farren

This session was mainly focused on setting up and maintaining a professional presence on social media.

Get more from the platforms I use
- On a professional level
- Youtube

Use slideshare
- Research

Ted Talks

93% of recruiters review a candidates social profile

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Create a winning brand
- What do you want out there
- Portfolio
- CV
- Personality

What are my USPs?

Make sure you have the correct privacy settings on that you want for each platform

Employers are looking for people who are social media savy

Take some time to organise my LinkedIn

CV online

Be confident in ability

Use LinkedIn as a research tool

Look at how people have got where they are
- If you want someones job, see how they got there

Aim for 100% profile completion

Make the most of your headline

Everything is public

Change my photo 
- Turn off activity broadcast whilst building profile

Endorse people

Headline
- Key words
- Job opportunities
- Skills

Recommendations
- The more senior the better
- Clients
- Employers

Search for companies and Studios I want to visit
- And their competitors

Join more groups

Get into more groups

Connections > Find alumni

Have an organise of Twitter
- Make lists on Twitter
- Look at who people follow

Copyrighting
- Must do
- ACID - Anti-Copyrighting in Design