Category: Networking

Your Internet Presence – Part 6: Technical Vs. Social Skills

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Technical versus Social Skills 

To maintain your good, or positive, online presence, it’s necessary to balance your technical talent with your social expertise.  You need both to demonstrate your online prowess.

Dictionary.com defines these two skills, as follows:

Social:

  1. Seeking or enjoying the companionship of others; friendly; sociable; gregarious
  2. Living or disposed to live in companionship with others or in a community, rather than in isolation

Technical:

  1. Belonging or pertaining to an art, science, or the like
  2. Skilled in or familiar in a practical way with a particular art, trade, etc…

Your Internet Presence – Part 5: LinkedIn

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Making the Most of Your

Guest posted by Lyn Nelson

LinkedIn is the leading online professional networking tool. No matter which industry you're in, or at which stage in your career, networking is still the #1 way to land a job, and LinkedIn is the best way to leverage your network online.

Whether you're a LinkedIn beginner or pro (or are still staring wide-eyed at it trying to make sense of the chaos), here are a few tips for why and how LinkedIn can work for you, without eating up your life.

Your Internet Presence – Part 4: A Good Impression

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The Good

There are many ways to make a good impression through your Internet presence.  Although we are focusing on business etiquette, your overall presence is essential to your professional image.  And, remember, everyone is involved in business in some way.  A student’s business is focused on schoolwork and school-related and extracurricular activities, getting into college, earning a degree and preparing to launch a career.  No matter what stage of life you are in, establishing a good professional brand is a worthy goal.   

Your Internet Presence – Part 3: Avoiding Disaster

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  The Bad & The Ugly Continued…

Six Disaster Areas to Avoid!

 As you strive to clean up and improve your Internet presence, using your SWOT analysis, let’s delve a bit deeper into some of the possible weaknesses and threats to your Internet presence.  In last week’s post, I suggested that you assess your headshots and other photos that are posted to your Facebook, LinkedIn and other sites.  Here are some other online issues you should address and assess:

Your Internet Presence – Part 1: The Fishbowl

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The Fishbowl called the Internet

Establishing a presence on the Internet is akin to having your life displayed in a fishbowl.  While maintaining a positive presence can be a very good thing, if not handled properly it can be a very bad thing.  It all depends on how you craft your Internet image – or brand – whether your presence goes swimmingly well or it sinks you!  

The following are among the current media that project you onto the Internet:

Stand Up!

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Failure to Stand Could Mean a Failure to Succeed

Several years ago upon entering my daughter’s high school guidance office for an appointment, two male students and their belongings were sprawled and strewn across all the available seating.  They ignored me and continued to address each other as though no one else were present.  I almost asked them to remove their jackets, backpacks, books and other paraphernalia to make room for me to sit, but I was so fascinated by their behavior that I opted to wait and see if their manners would kick in.  They didn’t.    

Failure to stand on certain occasions can damage your brand. Just as people will remember a poor handshake, they will also recall if you failed to stand when meeting them.

Introductions Deconstructed (Rules and Exceptions) – Part 3: Awkward and Special Situations

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The Rules
(And their Exceptions)
Part Three of Three Entries


This three-part series winds up by focusing on those awkward, unusual, new and special situations.

Who’s that lady?

You’re on vacation with your parents and you see your basketball coach and his wife in your hotel courtyard.  Oh, how cute, they’re holding hands!  Your parents want to meet them, so you walk over only to discover that the woman with your coach is not his wife, to whom you were introduced at your school’s sports banquet last year. 

You say:

The College Career Center

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The Jewel in the Campus Crown

I was once again reminded of the value of the college career center last Wednesday evening when I presented the topic of business dining etiquette at the annual student and alumni Power Dinner, which was co-sponsored by the Manhattanville College Center for Career Development (CCD), the Junior Class and Residence Life.  Although the Power Dinner is not new, it speaks volumes about how its importance has grown that it is now co-sponsored by other areas and fully supported by Manhattanville’s president, who attended along with students and alumni.  My co-presenter for the evening, a wealth management portfolio officer for a major financial institution, guided the students through an engaging interactive hour of networking techniques to be used at various business occasions.  The planning, creativity and sophistication that are the hallmarks of this and other CCD events attest to the top-notch career training that is provided.  

The Perfect Handshake

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It's Critical to Your Career!

Your job interview, prospective client, seat on a board or membership in an organization can be won or lost on the strength of your handshake. It can put you over the top or sink your chances. While this seemingly routine and innocuous little nicety lasts only a few seconds, it will be remembered forever.