Best Profile Forwarda Social Put Your Best Profil
Put Your Best Profile Forward
A social media profile stands in your place to anyone who reads it. Profiles can serve any purposes; some help you catch up with friends and share information with your family. Others, however, represent you to a network of professionals, and this could hurt or hinder your career path. Today human resource professional use more than your resume to determine how well you will fit into their company culture; it is becoming routine to complete an online search of applicants, as well. Most of us have an online presence-sometimes created by others, like your company’s website or being mentioned in a newspaper or school newsletter. There is little you can do about how you are represented by others. But you have control over how you present yourself. Who are people seeing when they are looking at your profile online?
For this Assignment you will learn to review online social media profiles and how the content of profiles can impact your professional future. You may either evaluate the sample profile or create your own professional online profile.
To prepare for the Assignment:
- Read the White article, ‘Will your Facebook profile sabotage your job search?’, in this week’s Notes and Readings.
- Consider your online search of yourself from this week’s Discussion.
- Evaluate the Professional Profiles media for examples of professional profiles.
- Review Walden University privacy guidelines to understand online policies at Walden.
Assignment Instructions:
| Complete EITHER Option A or Option B. |
Option A. Evaluate Sample Profiles
You will review sample student profiles, evaluate and make recommendations for improving them.
- Review and critique at least two of the sample online profiles using the ‘Professional Profile Guidelines and Rubricdocument-Option A’ that can be found in this week’s Learning Resources.
- Explain in detail your scoring for both profiles
Submit a 2-3 page essay review and critique of the profiles. If you were the hiring manager who reviewed these two profiles, would you hire the candidates? Why or why not? Make sure to reference the scoring rubric in the Professional Profile Guidelines and Rubric document and to make specific recommendations about how the profiles could be improved.
OR
Option B. Craft a Professional Profile
Develop a profile on the professional networking site, LinkedIn. Please submit 2-3 page essay describing the development of your LinkedIn profile. Please include the link to your profile in your essay. Use the ‘Professional Guidelines and Rubric document-Option B’ to guide the development of your profile.
Note: If you are enrolled in a competency-based program, you may alternatively use Pathbrite which is a portfolio-based professional site. All other students should use LinkedIn.
- Using the Professional Guidelines and Rubric document-Option B for reference, think about what types of things should be in your own professional profile. This can be found in this week’s Learning Resources.
- Create your profile, making notes on what you are including and why. If you are revising an existing profile, make sure to improve it according to the guidelines from our class.
Submit a 2 page summary of the choices you made in creating or updating your profile and the active public link to your profile. Instructions on how to do so are included in the ‘Professional Guidelines and Rubric-Option B’ document. You will be graded on your profile and your written summary of the choices you made for this option.
Draw employers with a dazzling digital footprint. (2012, February 1). The Star (South Africa).