Top 7 Mistakes You Want To Avoid When Promoting Yourself On Web
Think about the Web pages show up when people searches your name. Let’s be serious, imagine it is your potential employer who want to find out more about yourself. Is the result page showing your “having fun” moment?
You don’t want your potential employer to think you are an always drunk guy, who slurred like this :
“H-h-h-heeeeey! Wheeeere d’ya think yeeeeer goin’?”
Overall, you want to gain a positive personal impression to the public, especially your future employers. So many people have the same name, however, when people are searching the name you have, you couldn’t be more happier that first result is YOU.
Here are some mistakes you might have made when you are promoting yourself on Internet.
LinkedIn:
Think LinkedIn as your online resume. It is not saying that all employers want to hire good-looking person (although it might be true when it comes to fashion). The picture actually gives employers an opportunity to know you better as a whole person. In addition, employers will be appreciate that you have added picture, because it cost the managers less time to know you and it makes the hiring process more efficient.
- Using pictures of pets or babies.
Come on, I know you love your dogs. I know it is your important role of being a Mommy or daddy. It is the time to talk about job and money (which could be used to buy stuff for your pets and babies), let’s be professional for a moment.
LinkedIn is a professional online human resource market. Think yourself as a product; in this case your potential employers would be the buyers that are seeking best-fit product (it sounds like brutal, but this is the reality). Of course, every product should have some introduction to enable buyer to know you quickly. You want to point out your strengths and employers want to know how you evaluate yourself.
Facebook:
On rainy days, you tend to have more thoughts about life. But think this as if you were the readers of the post. “oh, that is so many words, do you really get time to write this much? ” “en… let me take a look at the pictures”. Use right amount of words plus attracting pictures may let people think you as a smart, positive and more importantly fun guy.
Human brain processes pictures faster, especially when it comes to an interesting picture. People tend to have longer attention span on interesting pictures. It is easier to remember the information on pictures as well.
Informative pictures can really tell a lot of information you might be struggling to write and readers are painful to read.
Enjoying a crazy night is part of your life. But you have the ability to choose showing or not showing this part of you to the public. Employers are also interested in gossiping you! Show yourself as the image you want employers to see you.
- Directly promote yourself or your business
Have you heard of Advertising Blindness? Our eyes are tired of too much ads on social media. People want a “pure” experience on social platform. Keeping posting ads will cause losing followers.