{"id":310,"date":"2015-04-22T08:30:13","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T07:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/?p=310"},"modified":"2025-10-22T15:58:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T14:58:20","slug":"dont-ruin-your-career-in-140-characters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/2015\/04\/22\/dont-ruin-your-career-in-140-characters\/","title":{"rendered":"Don't ruin your career in 140 characters..."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Saturday, as part of our <a href=\"https:\/\/myfuture.bath.ac.uk\/ViewEvent.chpx?id=569849\">Careers Prep in a Day <\/a>event we will be running a session on using social media to develop your career. Seriously, who could have predicted a decade ago that social media would be such an integral part of our day-to-day lives? The rise of social media is both a god send and a threat to potential job seekers. This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/careers\/careers-blog\/2015\/apr\/13\/dont-ruin-your-career-in-140-characters-social-media-job-hunting-tips\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> from the Guardian makes for excellent reading providing valuable insights on how to get social media right and what to avoid to get it completely wrong!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/82\/2015\/04\/screen_shot_2013-05-14_at_2.33.32_pm.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-311\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/82\/2015\/04\/screen_shot_2013-05-14_at_2.33.32_pm-300x174.png\" alt=\"screen_shot_2013-05-14_at_2.33.32_pm\" width=\"267\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/82\/2015\/04\/screen_shot_2013-05-14_at_2.33.32_pm-300x174.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/82\/2015\/04\/screen_shot_2013-05-14_at_2.33.32_pm.png 363w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>With the ever-increasing prevalence of online social networking tools; it is now more important than ever to think about the image or brand that you would like to project, both online and in the real world. We wrote a series of articles on <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/tag\/social-media\/\" target=\"_blank\">Personal Branding<\/a>, u<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/2014\/11\/05\/jobhunt-using-twitter\/\" target=\"_blank\">sing Twitter to boost your job hunt<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/2014\/11\/04\/how-to-use-linkedin-effectively\/\" target=\"_blank\">how to use LinkedIn effectively.<\/a>\u00a0They are worth a read if you missed them when they were first published.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Saturday, as part of our Careers Prep in a Day event we will be running a session on using social media to develop your career. Seriously, who could have predicted a decade ago that social media would be such...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[748],"tags":[4,27],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-advice","tag-social-media"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/384"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}