Tips to improve your Online Persona
Your online persona is more like an online visiting card for you. Your online persona can say lots more about you, which even your detailed resume, can’t say. With the growing interest in blog branding or utilizing social media, it has become essential to improve your online persona.
If you are already in an online social market, you only need to create a profile which can tell about you in a more appropriate way.
Two important benefits of having online persona are:
- Job search: If you are having good online persona, you can use it for following purpose:
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- Use online social networking websites for your job search by giving your online persona.
- You can make and find contacts in good companies by showing them your online persona.
- You can also ask your friends to forward your online persona and expect some interview calls.
- Professional and social networking: Even if you are in mood to start your own online business, your online persona will surely help you to represent you in social and professional network. You can get chance to explore new market, target your prospects. Many times unexpected links can give you new opportunities and success in life.
Thus, to improve your online persona, here are few tips:
1. Be safe while making profile: There are always two sides of coin, it same with online persona. Online persona is beneficial in many ways but there are people who would love to misuse your profile. Thus while making your profile, try to hide your very personal information. Try to have a public profile for marketing purpose, try to remove any contents like credit card number or confidential online accounts, which can create problems for you in future.
2. Buy your domain name: If possible, buy your own domain name which matches your name. The domain name represents you, and thus helps to brand your online persona automatically.
3. What your Google profile says about you: Most employers use Google search to find more about your online persona, your impression is based upon what results they get from your Google profile. It’s really important for you to find out what is being said about you and which pages are indexed? The top results about your name or same name as yours might have negative online profile. You should be prepared for such conditions in advance.
4. Mind your content: Never add any content on your online profile which can ruin your image. You should always post contents which is beneficial for you to get good opportunities. It should be professional with little bit of social touch, you should keep your identity safe in eyes of employers and professional friends; otherwise you might lose many opportunities.
5. Golden rule: You should remember about a golden rule when you want to get most benefit from your online persona. First is to monitor what is going on in market and what are current opportunities for you. Next thing, always post your content on right time and relevant to the current market conditions. Lastly, try to engage and brand your online persona as much as you can.
Hope these points will help you to improve your online persona and get maximum benefit out of it.
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Hi Ruchi all are some nice point. well before I want not so aware about my profile on social networking site. But now I think that our profile so our online reputation. SO now I try to improve my profile. Well here one disadvantage on my online status that I am not using my own domain.
It’s ok, I guess if you take care of other things then domain name can be ignored.
haha, totally agree with you some employer googling the candidate to find more about them, so better be safe..
i had izzataziz.com gonna get it back, currently have izzataziz.net, and looking forward to get .info, .org, and whatever the extension..
Hope you get good extension. I hope poeple don’t start getting to professional on social networking site , to get good jobs
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Actually a number of employers cross people who apply for job facebook acount lol. People better take care.
Hey Priscus your avatar is something horrible.
yeah, in some time social networking sites will have lots of job offers
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True… that’s exactly the reason why I have thilak.in for my email. Looks classy!
That’s nice.
Owning a personal domain is one of the best options. But also grab your usernames in most of the social networking sites, so that you can create yourself a unique online identity name.
That True, Having a unique online identity name is really a good idea.
Very nice tips Ruchi! Even i want to add few more points: Along with Google profile, make your Linkedin profile too, Never spam any social networking site by adding more and more friends and giving more and more link, it will be hazardous, also I like your idea of grabbing domain name of own name. Extensions like .com or .info is perfect extension. I remember some great persons like Matt Mulenweg and Om Malik have their personal blogs of domain name http://Ma.tt and http://Omis.me so this kind of short, hacked and attractive domain name may helpful in make your own online identity.
Thanks Himanshu for adding good points, even I was not aware of Matt and Om Malik.
Always love info you share here Ruchi! Building a good online persona is always a good tactic for online business. If I can add a little more information here, I would suggest using usernamecheck.com to check your name on various popular sites. Then you should register accounts on all of them to keep your username because it’s now your brand and I’m sure that you don’t wanna any s*cker use your name to spam or publish information that can ruin your brand.
Agree with you, Usernamecheck is really good option. Thanks for adding inforamtion.
Good tips! Now-a-days people look at the online personalities of people before hiring them for any work! Your tips are really helpful.
Yeah, these days HR search on social media websites to hire employees because they get all details about the candidate.
In this era of internet, if you have a bad name online it stays for ever. This makes it o much important to build a powerful and positive online persona. Great post
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