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From the picture shown above it shows that I am quite competent in being able to create my digital footprint in the world. By creating many diverse online profiles, it has made connecting to people such as my peers, work colleagues, and employers much easier. The people that they are connected with can see your profile and what you have achieved and this is a simple way of putting your name out into the world, compared to using the generic social media platforms such as Facebook.
To previously connect with my peers, I would usually just friend them on Facebook, follow them on Instagram or just simply sent a text message. However, now that I have entered this new area with having this blog and my LinkedIn profile it is going to be easier to stay connected.
Being able to connect with people on online platforms is highly important as we move forward into the future. As someone who will be looking for a job in the future these, platforms will be an easier way of making connections. This is because it allows people to connect by having an insight into other’s lives. By connecting with others on LinkedIn pages and Thinkspace blogs, two different social media platforms that both display the many distinct ways that you can easily connect with peers, through many different pages and groups that are easy to join.
Since broadening my internet social community, I have been able to connect with groups that are in the areas that I find of a personal interest such as, Agricultural pages specifically for women and those solely just Agriculturally based. The ways that we can connect with others now gives a greater perspective upon what is going on with in the world, and how we can approach it in the future with our technology.
When creating my professional profile, I had no idea how simple and easy it was to create all of these profiles on the many different social media platforms within the networking world. When creating my LinkedIn profile, I never knew how the social platform worked or what its background was about, but now I can see that it is and will be a great resource in the future. It was surprising to see how quickly it is for somebody to find you and to see how many people have looked at your profile, even within the small time-frame that I have been on these social platforms.
To further connect with others as well as creating a more advanced profile in the future is to hopefully create a professional profile that becomes appealing to my future employers that could eventually give me an extra edge compared to others to get a foot in the door in terms of work experience and even casual work whilst I’m am still studying at university. In turn this could possibly lead towards a full-time position once I have completed my study. This can also support me further on into my career as my profile will keep my profile evolving and becoming more appealing as I will have had all of these experiences in many different workplaces as well as having undertaken training from having been within those workplaces in the past.
Having learnt these tools as a learner of these online professional profiles will hopefully help me to make my profile evolve to make it greater, making it more diverse and more appealing to employers in the future when trying becoming a professional in my chosen field. It will also give me a greater understanding of the way that I approach social media and the content that I share online.
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