While navigating the world of Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, there is a lot to deal with including mingling, creating impression, personal branding, increasing your circle of friends and enjoy every other social MD activity you can imagine.
When you are busy mingling online, through your use of social media it is important to note that this social circle will include potential employers. So, how do you get them to notice you for the right reasons? How do you project and protect your personal brand?
For example, if you’re looking for a job position in TV or radio station, you have to be on Twitter and follow organizations where a lot of jobs and work experience are advertised and essential advice dished. A good example is @mediacareerngr where we regularly tweets about media events, awards and fellowships, job opportunities, alongside helpful tips that will guide your media career pursuit.
Social media is about making yourself known but it’s also about boundaries. To help you get the balance right, here are few traits from Twitter followers:
1. Ask positive questions and engage. This is a great way to volunteer for events and to let people know what you have done, but don’t be overly familiar or flirty.
2. The social media is a great way to showcase your work, writeups, tweet blogs, showreels or things you are proud of. If you’ve been nominated for something, use the social media to shout about it.
“If you have been nominated for something, use the social media to shout about it.
3. Promote your events and invite people to speak or attend them. Nothing looks better than being proactive.
4. Don’t talk excessively about how drunk or hungover you are, particularly when you’re in work or supposed to be in work.
5. When you are working, don’t EVER bad mouth or criticise the production. Even if it is a horrible place to work and you feel that you’re being unfairly treated, social media is not the place to discuss this, so keep this out of your tweets.
6. If you are working on a politics programme or a documentary that deals with a particular issue. DO NOT tweet your political opinion or opinions on the subject. This can seriously affect the credibility of your programme and the objectivity of your team.
7. Social Media is a good avenue for you to make professional contacts, sign up for industry networking events and find out about to engage with peers and employers and also a great way to show off your work and what you want to do.
Additional information from: BBC Academy.
