How Your Social Media Profile Affects Your Job Prospects?

How seriously do you handle your social media account? Is it just for fun or you take time to portray your personality and character traits through the profile? These days with the advent of digital platforms, social profiles play an important role. Facebook, Pinterest, and Twitter are not simply places to spend your extra time chit chatting with different people. They are your places through which you can grow. As it helps you to grow, there are chances of your social profile can ruin your image as a suitable candidate for a particular job.

Researchers say that around 77% of employers are now using the social media platforms to pick candidates. There is also an estimate of 20% of employers who use these platforms for screening the candidates. So, as a candidate, if you are only sticking around creating the image on a personal ground on the social channels, you need to rush now and get the changes done before it’s too late.

What’s your sharing metrics?

You should not be either of the extremes. It is not advisable to post about every meal you have taken, every party madness or an update of an illness. No the employers will not wish to have a check over that stuff. But that does not mean you will completely restrict yourself from posting, thinking that would be a too much. A good rule of the thumb is to make your profile such that it gives an idea about the real person who you are and says about your interests and point of view. A profile that is abandoned for a long time does not excite the employers. Experts say that if you are handling an account in the social media make sure you use it rather than just make it a keepsake. In case, you have old profiles, which are not in use make sure you deactivate them.

Keep your engagement sound

There are many cases where the social media profiles are maintained well by the person, but the friends' community is keeping no stone unturned to ruin that with series of uncouth comments that’s enough to cover up all the attempt of building a profile of yours. Inappropriate tagging can be avoided easily when you start to keep a check over the things that are tagged. Use the privacy settings and restrict the post and tagging directly to your profile. In this way, you will get a tag request and only when you accept that the post will be shown on your timeline. Grow your community strategically and use that well for networking. Engage with the right audience and make sure to put your views upfront where it is required. When you start the right networking, you will get to know more people who might eventually help you in getting a good job opportunity.

Try following a tone

Your social media profile is like a branding of your image. There must be a consistency over the type of posts. For instance, if the humor tone is set at a witty and sarcastic level, the very next post must not be a sexist joke. The people who are viewing your posts must not get confused about what is your choice of humor. In case, you have a special focus on a particular subject you can make a different profile on Twitter where you can make two separate accounts to establish two different interest if you want to focus on both.  

Your engagement

Now, this is a very crucial area, where people often make mistakes. They start thinking that everything is about them. What you think and what you scream through your profile is insubstantial as termed by experts. Yes, it is important to voice your opinion. But how you are doing it is equally important. Your posts are likely to give an idea of your interest. Social media might be the platform to showcase your talents but that’s not the place where you present the platter of your expertise. For e.g., an artist displaying all the artwork is not desirable, but definitely, an achievement in the field is worth a share. If you really wish to establish your opinions you must engage with people of the same network group. Discuss the possibilities or debate over a potential with logic rather than just pushing your ideas into someone else’s feed.

Sort your audience

Facebook is somewhat a personal place where you get enough options to set your privacy. You can always make groups of your friends. For eg, if you wish to share something exclusively with your office colleagues, you need not share the same with your family group and vice versa. You can also restrict the number of photos that one can see in your profile. Experts say that people usually miss all these out as they do not check the updates. Every time there's an update, it is not just the look or the emoticon that gets a new style. The authorities of Facebook change their privacy policies quite often which if checked can help the users in many ways and guide them about the optimum use of all the available features.

Make your profile searchable

When you are actively searching for a new job, make sure your profile is something to be searched from the dump. Your profiles must be info filled and tell about your career graph. Use career keywords and ensure all the aspects are available for public viewing. So, in case an employer wishes to have a look who you are what you do gets a pretty much similarity with your CV and interview insights.

Email ids connect

Experts say that it is better to keep a single profile for personal and professional use. When you share the contact, you are giving the email id and employers are likely to search your profile through that email id. In that case, if both are not the same, it would be a great problem for employers to find your profile.

If you think these tips are helpful, do not mind sharing it with friends because sharing is positive socializing.