Learning to link-in: teaching undergraduate sport students how to professionally network via social media using a Pebblepad platform

Andrea J. Cameron; Carol Maxwell; James N. Cobley

Learning to link-in: teaching undergraduate sport students how to professionally network via social media using a Pebblepad platform

Andrea J. Cameron, Carol Maxwell, James N. Cobley

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Increasingly, professional social networks are being used to connect, collaborate, make valuable contacts, source ‘experts’ and for recruitment purposes. The majority (92%) of employers use social media to recruit, and 1 in 6 employees state that their current post is as a consequence of social media. ‘LinkedIn’ is the most popular social media network used by recruiters and it is reported that more than a third of job seekers use this platform to enable them to find work.

Original language	English
Number of pages	7
Journal	EUNIS Journal of Higher Education IT
Volume	2015
Issue number	3
Publication status	Published - 19 Oct 2015
Event	EUNIS 21st Congress: The Journey to Discovery - Abertay University, Dundee, United Kingdom Duration: 10 Jun 2015 → 12 Jun 2015 Conference number: 21 http://www.eunis.org/eunis2015/

Keywords

Transitions into employment
Professional social networks
Self-promotion
Employability
Self-awareness

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Learning to link-in: teaching undergraduate sport students how to professionally network via social media using a Pebblepad platform

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