Question

Post at least 250 words comparing your online self-presentation styles with those of the online profiles you selected. In your comparison, be sure to address the following:

How do you present yourself online in order to gain compliance and achieve your chosen goal(s)? How does your approach differ?

What ethical considerations come into play? Make reference to the “Social Networking Web Sites: The Legal and Ethical Aspects of Pre-Employment Screening and Employee Surveillance” article and cite where appropriate.

How might you change your online communication behavior or self-presentation to achieve your goals?

Don’t forget to include the links from your analysis so your classmates can also visit the websites firsthand.

Answer 1

Online presence is very common these days for an individual in today’s world of internet. And people are craving to create a good repo amongst a group of people.

They follow a different ways and strategies to do the same and sometime commit mistakes which create a negative impact on their profile and eventually result in missing good opportunity out there.

For example, if a recruiter is hiring a candidate for a particular profile and during the search process he comes across a candidate on LinkedIn having same required profile and skill set but when he started going through candidate’s profile, his post, his activity, he found that the candidate is not having good etiquette, ethics, good gesture and way of replying and discipline to follow as what to post on common place and other obscene activity can ruin his chance to be selected. Instead if he would have chosen a better way of being humble, good post and reply, following compliance and etiquette on social media, at least he would have created a good impression and a great chance of getting selected then.

I will follow the similar way of keeping my online presence and always comply to the rules, regulation, and terms and conditions of the platform which I am using. Also I will always be disciplined and following a good etiquette, patience, good way of communication while replying to anyone or doing any activity on these platforms. This way I am confident that I will achieve my goal of creating a powerful profile on the platform which will catch visitor’s attention.

Ethical aspect is an important factor to consider as this create the base of any individual and their future in organisation because one having ethical code and values will create a great asset for organisation.

To search a good profile online for a particular role and screen suitable candidate I will be searching for these aspects and factors in the profile.

1. Disciplined
2. Patient
3. Good communication.
4. Detail about various professional event and employment history.
5. Post and activity.
6. Participations in forum for healthy talk.
7. Good writing etiquette.
8. Award and recognition.
9. Strong Resume.
10. Rich skills
11. Aims and objectives

So by following these terms one will achieve creating a good presence online and will be definitely followed by all and hold a good chance in future to grab any opportunity as well as these traits is a trait of opportunist.

These can be achieved by keeping these in my mind and create a plan, itemize and set my goals, put my aims and objective carefully and consistently work on it even in a smaller bit if possible but daily. I will also make a good contact with others by taking part in events, groups, forums and will write something of my own which can benefit other. I will always comply to the terms and conditions and monitor my activity accordingly. This way in long run I will achieve my goal and create a eye catching profile.

Example link- www.linkedin.com/avinashsingh/31124/profile