Career Face of Social Networking: A Reality Check

Screenshot: Career Door Technology & Technology Sales Career Fair
Toronto, September 24, 2008 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre
Credit: Career Door Inc.

The Career Face of Social Networking - How Online Communities Can Affect Your Career
Social networking has revolutionized the way we communicate and share information with one another in today's society. Various social networking websites are being used by millions of people everyday on a regular basis and it now seems that social networking is a part of everyday personal and business lives.
Max Haroon will discuss:
Can Social Networking (such as facebook, linkedin, youtube, meetup) helps you build your career?
Social Networking Sites in the context of Web 2.0
Types of Social Networking Sites
Your reputation precede your business
Be careful of digital dirt
How Employers are using Social Networking Sites & Services
Presented by Max Haroon, Founder & President of the Society of Internet Professionals

Attending the presentation "The Career Face of Social Networking" presented by Max Haroon - Founder and President of Society of Internet Professionals, at the Technology Career Fair, September 24th, gave me a reality check re: blogs, social networking sites, and social bookmarking sites (e.g. LinkedIn, Facebook, Meetup, Twitter, Plaxo, Digg, del.icio.us, etc.) and their ability to significantly impact our career development and our professional lives.

If you fail to connect and interact with these sites, you are missing the opportunity to leverage their tremendous power to promote yourself, your key skills/ competencies, and talents to the targeted companies in your job search/career plan. By making full use of these sites, you are truly optimizing your competitive advantage, because they are the primary results-oriented, self-marketing tools of the 21st century for all "careerpreneurs", particularly for those who wish to be proactive about implementing a well-designed strategic career plan.

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