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Tweeting Your Way to the Top: How Social Media Can Help Young Professionals
From Syracuse University Broadcast Journalism | 05:48
Whether you tweet, snap, like, or share social media is the way to communicate; but can it be used for more then just a home for dog memes? Reporter, Kaitie Pearson, investigates the use of social media in the workplace and how young people can use it as a tool to look attractive to future employers.
Often the broad term given to describe the latest evolution of Internet and web based communication social media enables users to rapidly connect and interact in a variety of different formats. Young adults, ages 18 to 29, are the most likely to use social media with a 2015 Pew Research poll showing that 90 Percent of them use social networking sites regularly. While being the first generation to grow up as digital natives, what a lot of young people don’t know is that when used intelligently, social media can be a tool used to benefit their future careers. Kaitie Pearson investigates the in's and out'ts of social media in a professional setting from experts who hire individuals everyday so you can make the most out of your social media presence.