The presence of social media on the internet on one hand can provide many benefits for your career and personal life. Relations with co-workers become more familiar as you connect with him in the office and also online. You also can get a little narcissistic and showcase your skills and achievements through photos. Exchanging comments via Twitter can also make the relationship more lively.
However, social media can also threaten the future of your career if you are not careful in using it. Perhaps you have heard some stories about the dismissal of people due to do foolish things in social media that they posted. For example, someone claimed to have been meeting with clients, but he was photographed on a Facebook page that showed he was eating with his girlfriend. Or, send a tweet that he got the promotion because the company will merge, but this news should not be disseminated to the public yet.
The main key to social media so that it does not turn down your career is self-control. Because the medium of the Internet does make life so much easier and faster. Follow these four steps to ensure you can safely use social media without having to make your career slumped:
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1. Think before “posting” on social media
Whatever you write on the status or tweets can be devastating for your self. Although you have set the privacy closely, still a status could not be considered safe in social media. Therefore, always consider before posting, whether you will run into problems when writing like that? Is your boss will be angry when she finds out? If so, better not post that status!
2. Don’t put detailed information about yourself on Social Media
Starting from the data about school, company work, to interests and hobbies. Today, many companies are trying to do the checks via online to find out your background. One of them is through social media. If you do not want anyone to know certain things about you, better not be listed there.
3. Follow company regulations regarding social media usage
Every company has a policy relating to social networking. For example, whether you are allowed to access an online friendship site during office hours? Then, any information about the company that you can and can not graft and share in your profile? Immediately ask the human resources staff member if it turns out that you don’t understand it!
4. Careful with your “tweets”
Never send a tweet containing negative comments about the company. Or, complaining about things that relate to work through the status on Facebook. If you have a complaint, it is better to immediately submit it directly to your boss rather than on social media!
