Ok now you have a website (yourname.com), a blog or two, and you are also on vanity hangouts (Facebook, Google Plus (Google profile is a must), LinkedIn, and Twitter at least). If you have optimized them well, chances are that your name will rank number one in major search engines such as Google, Bing, and Yahoo. What next? What is the core of your online presence? Are you looking for personal branding, to build a resume or a personal profile?
Fact is that your web presence is how you are perceived by potential employers. Web sites and blogs are already replacing traditional one page resume (I got my day job back on 2004 due to my blogs). Given the online trends, one can safely say that online presence will soon do what resume does today. Those who don’t have an online presence will have lesser chances to bag a job or other paid assignments. On the other hand, more and more businesses are looking for candidates, trainers and consultants and meeting them online instead of job fairs and other networking event (and save on their recruitment processes). Powerful online presence showing your skills and experiences is like constantly looking for the new opportunity that will further your professional growth.
Your online presence communicates, or should communicate, what you’re truly and genuinely passionate about in work or life. And when your online presence communicates, it can also work for those who are ‘single, still looking, deeply in love, heartbroken or those locked up in unhappy relationship.’ Online presence has forever changed how people find their soul mates. And I am not talking about match making websites here. Powerful presence online is the best for anyone to focus on who they want to settle with in life. That is why I suggest never brag anything in haste that might haunt you later. This has not yet started happening in our less connected local context though.
Powerful online presence is when your website or wherever you hang out online can can completely convey who you are or what you want to be. Have a look and see what is missing there.
A very intersting article where you made very clear how important it is to have an online identity for professional growth.
Websites (even blogs) have become major playing ground where I see money chnaging hands, net working and a whole lot more. Savvy people are already doing great work. I can see your reach sir. Keep up.
I read “The Death of the Resume” somewhere. Thought it will be useful here.
In 2013, the traditional resume will be replaced by the breadth and depth of your personal brand.
Before you’re interviewed by a potential employer, expect the recruiting manager or hiring manager to check out one or more of the following sources about you: 1) the top ten searches on your name on either Google or Bing, 2) the number of Twitter followers you have and last time you tweeted, 3) the size and quality of your LinkedIn community, 4) the number and quality of recommendations you have on LinkedIn and 5) your Klout score.
The software company Salesforce.com recently advertised a position that listed “a Klout score of 35 or over” as one of the key ‘desired skills’ for a community manager position.
And as candidates catch on to employers’ focus on their Internet presence, they will shift their methods accordingly. Taking the lead from innovative applicants like Shawn McTigue, who made this 2:50 video as part of his application to a Mastercard internship, more workers will take a creative approach to marketing their experience.
However we do it, we will all have to accept that a one-page summary of our professional histories, expertise, skills, and achievements – that which we think of as a “resume” – will no longer act as our differentiation in the job market.
Indicating a new trend in job market, your post is very insightful. I agree that these days blogging is the best, easiest and most effective way of promoting yourself, brand and experiences.
The best thing about blogging is you can voice your authentic self and demonstrate who you actually are. And why not when it works in more than one ways.
Sir , I got first position for “pakistan largest blog” keyword in just a month
Marketing yourself should go unheeded in the rush to complete jobs and build your brand with a body of work, but as James Chartrand and company at Men with Pens points out, there are a few very simple steps you can take that only cost minutes but can yield a big payoff. Your best bet maybe your email signature and your own About page. No?
You can also add “Hire Me page, Portfolio, Personal Network and word of blog(s).
Now social media and search engine are able you to make strong online presence.
Powerful article Shi. Thanks.
I do need my presence online. Every one does. People search you online; even employers see your Facebook and linkedIn accounts.
Hi, just wanted to say I liked this article.
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