20 Great Career-Building Activities Using Facebook


Book Description

This title guides readers through exercises to educate them on the limits and possibilities of sharing. Focusing on tools to build skills, it covers creating multimedia content and devising and strategizing for a marketable brand presence as an individual or on behalf of a business or organization, providing a step-by-step pathway to social media literacy and considering social media from a critical position while evaluating privacy, reputation, and appropriate content.




20 Great Career-Building Activities Using Twitter


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This book shows students how to use Twitter to their advantage, for creative expression, academics, research, reporting, college searches, or promoting a business. Twenty activities help readers create a portfolio and build a digital footprint that can open doors professionally, academically, and creatively.




20 Great Career-Building Activities Using Pinterest


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In this guide, teens learn how to create pin collections that are similar to having a personally designed catalog that holds all the internet links related to their passions, hobbies, and aspirations. Twenty activities help readers leverage the power of visual content to enrich their lives, advance their studies, and promote their favorite endeavors.




20 Great Career-Building Activities Using YouTube


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This resource offers teens tips on how they can use YouTube to help with their personal creative endeavors, artistic expression, school-related projects, college applications, job prospects, and personal development.




20 Great Career-Building Activities Using Tumblr


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This guide gives an introduction to the Tumblr platform, as well as an overview of its etiquette and usage tips. While progressing through the twenty activities in this guide, readers will learn the basics of usage and the community, as well as safety tips. Activities include creating a personal blog and leveraging social media skills on behalf of an employer or a cause the reader is passionate about.




20 Great Career-Building Activities Using Instagram and Snapchat


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With the landscape of social media changing rapidly, image-based platforms like Snapchat and Instagram are growing more popular as access to high-quality cameras become a part of daily life. To prepare students for success in writing, creating content, and marketing, this guide walks the reader through both of these exciting platforms, comparing their advantages and drawbacks. The twenty activities included give students concrete skills to develop as they consider their audience, map out plans for the content they plan to post, and learn how to use social media to attract the notice of colleges and employers.




A Career as a Social Media Manager


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Social media is a part of everyday life, and businesses have taken note. Today, social media managers are needed to help shepherd companies into the next era of how business is done. This resource is a straightforward guide for those who choose social media management as a career path. It explains job preparation and education, networking strategies, and creation of a portfolio and résumé and offers practical tips for advancement in the field. It also describes the steps to building a private practice. This accessible, fun volume is an insightful look into a career that is still in its infancy.




20 Great Career-Building Activities Using Facebook


Book Description

Covering one of the foundational social media platforms, this title guides readers through concrete exercises to educate them on the limits and possibilities of sharing. Focusing on tools to build skills, it covers creating multimedia content and devising and strategizing for a marketable brand presence as an individual or on behalf of a business or organization. These twenty activities provide a step-by-step pathway to social media literacy and consider social media from a critical position while evaluating privacy, reputation, and appropriate content.




BEST


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BEST: Implementing Career Development Activities for Biomedical Research Trainees provides an instructional guide for institutions wanting to create, supplement or improve their career and professional development offerings. Each chapter provides an exclusive perspective from an administrator from the 17 Broadening Experiences in Scientific Training (BEST) institutions. The book can aid institutions who train graduate students in a variety of careers by teaching faculty and staff how to create and implement career development programming, how to highlight the effectiveness of offerings, how to demonstrate that creating a program from scratch is doable, and how to inform faculty and staff on getting institutional buy-in. This is a must-have for graduate school deans and faculty and staff who want to implement and institutionalize career development programing at their institutions. It is also ideal for graduate students and postdocs. - Provides an instructional guide for institutions wanting to create or supplement their career and professional development offerings - Contains perspectives from administrators from the 17 Broadening Experiences in Scientific Training (BEST) institutions - Addresses what graduate students and postdoctoral populations can implement now to help broaden career outcomes




The SAGE Handbook of Graduate Employability


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This Handbook brings together the latest research on graduate employability into one authoritative volume. Dedicated parts guide readers through topics, key issues and debates relating to delivering, facilitating, achieving and evaluating graduate employability. Chapters offer critical and reflective positions, providing examples of a range of student and graduate destinations, and cover a wide range of topics from employability development, to discipline differences, gender, race and inclusion issues, entrepreneurialism, and beyond. Showcasing positions and voices from diverse communities, industries, political spheres and cultural landscape, this book will support the research of students, researchers and practitioners across a broad range of social science areas. Part I Facilitating and Achieving Graduate Employability Part II Segmenting Graduate Employability: Subject by Subject Considerations Part III Graduate Employability and Inclusion Part IV Country and Regional Differences Part V Policy Makers′ and Employers′ Perceptions on Graduate Employability