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Assignment 1: Put Your Best Profile Forward
A social media profile stands in your place to anyone who reads it. Profiles can serve any purposes; some help you catch up with friends and share information with your family. Others, however, represent you to a network of professionals, and this could hurt or hinder your career path. Today human resource professional use more than your resume to determine how well you will fit into their company culture; it is becoming routine to complete an online search of applicants, as well. Most of us have an online presence-sometimes created by others, like your company’s website or being mentioned in a newspaper or school newsletter. There is little you can do about how you are represented by others. But you have control over how you present yourself. Who are people seeing when they are looking at your profile online?
For this Assignment you will learn to review online social media profiles and how the content of profiles can impact your professional future. You may either evaluate the sample profile or create your own professional online profile.
To prepare for the Assignment:
• Read the White article, 'Will your Facebook profile sabotage your job search?', in this week’s Notes and Readings.
• Consider your online search of yourself from this week’s Discussion.
• Evaluate the Professional Profiles media for examples of professional profiles.
• Review Walden University privacy guidelines to understand online policies at Walden.
Assignment Instructions:
Complete EITHER Option A or Option B.
Option A. Evaluate Sample Profiles
You will review sample student profiles, evaluate and make recommendations for improving them.
• Review and critique at least two of the sample online profiles using the 'Professional Profile Guidelines and Rubric document-Option A' that can be found in this week's Learning Resources.
• Explain in detail your scoring for both profiles
By Day 7
Submit a 1- to 2-page essay review and critique of the profiles. If you were the hiring manager who reviewed these two profiles, would you hire the candidates? Why or why not? Make sure to reference the scoring rubric in the Professional Profile Guidelines and Rubric document and to make specific recommendations about how the profiles could be improved.