How to use Social Media to get a job?

You may already be on social networking sites, but may never have used them for your job search. In modern times a job hunt should always start by creating online profiles on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook. These sites are a great place to start looking for a career. There are, however, several things that you need to do to make your profiles employer friendly. Make your profile look as professional as possible, no drunken photos or funny pictures. If you are already on these networking sites then you should take the time to customise your profile so that prospective employers get a good impression of you.
So, how to use Social Media to get a job. I suppose, these videos will be interesting for you:

5 Differences Between Social Media and Social Networking

There are some key differences and knowing what they are can help you gain a better understanding:
1. By Any Definition
Social media is a way to transmit, or share information with a broad audience. And social networking is an act of engagement. Groups of people with common interests, or like-minds, associate together on social networking sites and build relationships through community.
2. Communication Style
Social media is more akin to a communication channel.Social media is simply a system that disseminates information ‘to' others.
With social networking, communication is two-way. Depending on the topic, subject matter or atmosphere, people congregate to join others with similar experiences and backgrounds.
3. Return on Investment
Social networking's ROI is a bit more obvious. If the overall traffic to your website is on the rise and you're diligently increasing your social networking base, you probably could attribute the rise in online visitors to your social efforts.
4. Timely Responses
Social media is definitely a marathon and not a sprint.
Social networking is direct communication between you and the people that you choose connect with, your conversations are richer, more purposeful and more personal.
5. Asking or Telling
In social media it can quickly become a PR nightmare if word leaks out about dishonest practices.
With social networking, you can tell your peers about your new business or blog and discuss how to make it a success. The conversations that you create can convert many people into loyal fans, so it's worth investing the time.

5 Must-know Disadvantages of Social Media:

There are also some negative sides:

1. The wrong online brand strategy could put you at a viral social disadvantage and may even damage your reputation, i.e, when you make a mistake offline, a few will know but when you make a mistake in front of hundreds or thousands of you online audience, most of them will know!



2. Using social media for marketing and advertising could be more time consuming than companies expect.



3. In order to get social media’s full effect, you need to understand how it works, when and how to use it and which channels to focus on depending on your end goal of using social media.



4. Social media can have a negative influence on worker productivity. Employees may waste valuable time using social media channels such as Facebook and Twitter. They can also use social media to attack the company’s reputation!



5. When social media is used excessively or in the wrong way, it could have serious detrimental outcomes on both mental and even physical health of individuals.

5 Must-know Advantages of Social Media:

As we now Social Media have some privileges, so they are:

1.When using social media for marketing products, social media could be easily utilized to create cost effective strategies and campaigns that can create viral results.

2.Social media has the power to drive traffic to your website, blog, articles, etc.

3.Social media is able to bring people together, especially when promoting global products or cause-related campaigns and ideas since it allows people from the different geographical location to meet at a single point and express their views.

4.Social media could be the spark you are looking for to attract attention to your site, product or service. It could also be used to further build loyalty and long-term relations with your audience.

5.Social media marketing could always be a fun and creative method of doing business.

Hi! Today i advice you to see this video.

What it teaches?

This video is a metaphor-rich explanation of Social Media. It tells a story of a town that changes as a result of democratization, including:

• Social Media's role in giving people the power to produce video, music, etc. on the web

• How social media compares to traditional media

• How fans play a role in deciding what should be findable and popular

• The benefits of social media to individuals and organizations

WHAT ARE SOCIAL NETWORKING SERVICES

Social Networking Services (SNS) are changing the ways in which people use and engage with the internet and with each other. Young people particularly are quick to use the new technology in ways which increasingly blur the boundaries between their online and offline activities. Online community services are sometimes considered as a social network service, though in a broader sense, social network service usually means an individual-centered service whereas online community services are group-centered. Social networking sites allow users to share ideas, activities, events, and interests within their individual networks.

A SNS essentially consists of:
• a representation of each user (profile)
• his/her social links within the network
• and a variety of additional services.

Social Media Statistics (Wikipedia,Flickr,Twitter,Google+)

Wikipedia,Flickr,Twitter,Google+  are also used as the most popular. So, I should show you this statistics:

1. Wikipedia hosts 17 million articles
2. Wikipedia authors total over 91,000 contributors
3. People upload 3,000 images to Flickr (the photo sharing social media site) every minute
4. Flickr hosts over 5 billion images
5. 190 million average  Tweets per day occur on Twitter (May 2011)
6. Twitter is handling 1.6 billion queries per day
7. Twitter is adding nearly 500,000 users a day
8. Google+ has more than 25 million users
9. Google+ was the fastest social network to reach 10 million users at 16 days (Twitter took 780 days and Facebook 852 days)

I think, this information is important for us to know how many people use the Social Networking.