Professional Profiles Summary Guidelines Reviewing

Professional Profiles Summary Guidelines Reviewing

Professional Profiles Summary Guidelines Reviewing

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? Professional Profiles Summary Guidelines Reviewing

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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:

YOU WILL REVIEW SAMPLE STUDENT PROFILES, EVALUATE AND MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR IMPROVING THEM. EVALUATE SAMPLE PROFILES

  • Review and critique at least two of the sample online profiles using the ‘Professional Profile Guidelines and Rubricdocument-Option A’ that can be found in this week’s Learning Resources.
  • Explain in detail your scoring for both profiles

Submit a 2-3 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.

 

Laureate Education (Producer). (2014c). Professional profiles[Interactive file]. Retrieved from https://class.waldenu.edu

Draw employers with a dazzling digital footprint. (2012, February 1). The Star (South Africa).

PLEASE BE SURE TO USE THE MEDIA LINK TO EVALUATE PROFILES. In text references and citations are required.

 

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Option A: Professional Profile Guidelines and Rubrics When developing a professional profile, there are certain guidelines you should follow to show yourself in the most flattering and professional light. Your profile should highlight your skills and professionalism to current and future employers. Employers often look at profiles to better understand a candidate. You should include important elements, but also think about the quality of each thing you include in a profile. Although employers may not actually score profiles, they do establish criteria to evaluate each one. For our class, we want to get specific and allow you to check for the right things as well as the degree to which you accomplish those. While learning, it helps to look at examples of profiles or your own profile and actually rate them. So after the guidelines below, you’ll