Making Yourself Known Using REAL Communication
With the invention of the internet and the worldwide web, the current generation of young adults have grown up in a society where social media such as Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter seems to be the only valid method of communicating to other human beings. This is so far from the truth, and it is a misguided idea that a person can ‘communicate’ with social media.
Social media is useful for advertising and marketing, and for perhaps sending private messages to people that we actually do know, instead of picking up the phone, but it cannot and will never replace REAL, LIVE COMMUNICATION between two human beings.
Many young people and graduates currently seeking to start on the career ladder with a good work opportunity only use social media to communicate to potential employers.
Some students or graduate actually post their entire CV on LinkedIn or Facebook, with photo and personal information including their address, age and contact details (which opens the door to identity fraud and worse). They post it in the hope that someone will pay attention to their communication. Sadly, to make matters worse, many recruiters and recruitment systems now only accept electronic CVs, which pass through some software that picks up key words on the CV, and perhaps select a person for an interview.
Before the advent of the internet, potential employers and potential employees actually SPOKE to each other. LIVE COMMUNICATION. Actually face-to-face, or on the phone. Job seekers also took the time to write job application letters, by hand, with the best handwriting, showing skill and care and real interest in the job being applied for.
Today, on-line applications are the norm, random emails sent, automatic email responses, no opportunity to send in a hand-written cover letter with your CV and basically little opportunity to speak for real with another person.
Social media ‘communication’ will never, ever replace true, real, live, breathing communication between human beings. Remember that. We are ALIVE!! Machines, and the internet, are just that: machines.
Read about the FOUR STEPS
which I have used myself for 30 years to secure work and get onto the career ladder. If carried out intelligently in sequence, they are very, very effective.