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Twitter and Your (Academic) Job Search Goals Increase your awareness of Twitter and its features that are designed to help you in your job search and build your network Teach you how to STRATEGICALLY navigate Twitter and all of

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Twitter and Your (Academic) Job Search

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Goals

  • Increase your awareness of Twitter and it’s features that

are designed to help you in your job search and build your network

  • Teach you how to STRATEGICALLY navigate Twitter and

all of it’s benefits to help you get a job

  • Educate you on professional networking processes and

practices that are sure to land you a job!

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Agenda

  • Overview of Twitter (benefits, functions, new features)
  • Develop your profile, demos of profiles
  • Build quality connections
  • Integrate strategic networking practices today!
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What is Twitter?

The world's largest shitposting network!

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What is Twitter?

  • Social media
  • See posts (‘tweets’) from people you follow
  • Post your own tweets, your followers see them
  • Like people’s tweets, and ‘retweet’-ing tweets allows your

followers to see them

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Who Uses Twitter?

259M+

professionals

3M+

companies

150+

industries Professors from every

University

60K+

universities

64%

  • utside the U.S.

30M+

students and recent grads

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Who Uses Twitter?

330M+

monthly users

67%

  • f B2B businesses

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industries Professors from every

University

???

universities

79%

  • utside the U.S.

37%

are between age 18-29

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Students & recent grads

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Twitter’s fastest-growing demographic

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Shitposting galore

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Who’s using Twitter from UBC?

No idea on how to get the statistics, but many of you + profs! @grep_art, @ionathanch, @mehrotra_p, @davepvm, @vaastav05, @zhucchina, @freejoeblobs, @fbanados, @gnviviani, @EremondiJoey, @UBC_CS, @secretasianman, @gregdeon_, @wilbowma, @rg9119 But I follow way more than these lovely people...

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Twitter Benefits for Students and Alumni

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Build a “ ” ” ”professional” ” ” ” online presence

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Add connections with alumni, current students, faculty and students from conferences+research area

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Research companies, industries, and grad programs

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Explore opportunities for undecided students

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Learn professional networking etiquette

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Building a ”Professional” Online Presence

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“It’s no longer enough to simply have a solid

  • resume. Students now need a professional

(shitposting) online presence.”

  • Holly Paul, Former US Recruiting Leader

PricewaterhouseCoopers

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Profile picture

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Examples of a good profile picture

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Examples of a bad profile picture

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Cover photo

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well...

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Name and handle

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Name and handle

Name: what people read at the top level paulette d. koronkevich *emojis* Handle: how people tag you in tweets, reply, etc @koronkebitch

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The bio

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The bio

YOUR WEBSITE

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Pinned tweets… promote yourself...

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Pinned tweets… or demote yourself...

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  • 2. Follow 'warm' contacts and alumni + meme

pages

People you meet at conferences!

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Getting followers

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Twitter: the public conversation network

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Don’t be a reply guy

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Don’t be an asshole

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Good content

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Even better content

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Even better content

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Threads

Tell a story, rant, share advice Done by sending a tweet, replying to that tweet, replying to that reply, etc

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DMs?

DM = direct messaging

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But… spam...

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Complain at companies

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BEFORE AFTER

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“Where do I start?”

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I have no idea...

  • Start following meme pages and academics
  • Try and combine them
  • ???
  • Profit
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