{"id":306,"date":"2015-12-14T16:19:27","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T16:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/?p=306"},"modified":"2015-12-14T16:20:01","modified_gmt":"2015-12-14T16:20:01","slug":"enhancing-student-employability-through-the-peer-review-of-professional-online-presences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/enhancing-student-employability-through-the-peer-review-of-professional-online-presences\/","title":{"rendered":"Enhancing Student Employability Through The Peer Review Of Professional Online Presences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve previously shared my work on integrating student Professional Online Presences into teaching at various conferences and invited talks, but it&#8217;s a couple of years since I&#8217;ve provided a research update.<\/p>\n<p>The ideas are now much more accepted and mainstream when they were when I first started working in the field. Many students realise that their digital information is now available to the public and to employers &#8211; although that does not mean that they are taking responsibility for the information that is posted about them.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve recently started adding an element of peer review to assess and improve the Professional Online Presences that students are producing. I used Birmingham City University RESCON 2015 to showcase a few of my favourite initial findings (although many more are available and there is further analysis that I would like to undertake before forming this into a formal academic paper).<\/p>\n<p>The slides for the talk are available for access online. These can be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/ThomasLancaster\">viewed on my SlideShare account<\/a>, or you can also see the slides below.<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.slideshare.net\/slideshow\/embed_code\/key\/x5GAgKMoBL14aW\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"border:1px solid #CCC; border-width:1px; margin-bottom:5px; max-width: 100%;\" allowfullscreen> <\/iframe><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>In the brief time we had for questions, I did receive an interesting idea for further analysis of LinkedIn, to see how closely student profiles match the requirements of industry.<\/p>\n<p>That idea is available as an undergraduate student project if anyone would like to take on creating an automated method of analysis?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve previously shared my work on integrating student Professional Online Presences into teaching at various conferences and invited talks, but it&#8217;s a couple of years since I&#8217;ve provided a research update. The ideas are now much more accepted and mainstream when they were when I first started working in the field. Many students realise that &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/enhancing-student-employability-through-the-peer-review-of-professional-online-presences\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Enhancing Student Employability Through The Peer Review Of Professional Online Presences<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[199,12,81,164,52,139,35],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-professional-practice","tag-birmingham-city-university","tag-employability","tag-linkedin","tag-professional-online-presence","tag-professional-practice-2","tag-rescon","tag-slideshare"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Thomas Lancaster","author_link":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/author\/thomas-lancaster\/"},"uagb_comment_info":1,"uagb_excerpt":"I&#8217;ve previously shared my work on integrating student Professional Online Presences into teaching at various conferences and invited talks, but it&#8217;s a couple of years since I&#8217;ve provided a research update. 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