Social networking pitfalls –3 rules of precaution

by Shadowmaster on 12/01/10 at 2:26 pm

This arti­cle is a sequel a pre­vi­ous arti­cle I have wrote:
http://www.theofficesurvivor.com/2009/11/using-social-networking-for-your-office-survival/

One of the buzz word today is net­work­ing, as you can find dif­fer­ent type of social net­work­ing sites such as linkedin (www.linkedin.com), twit­ter (www.twitter.com) , face­book (www.facebook.com) or any other social net­work­ing that answer your needs. It’s a known fact (almost) that every­one use net­work­ing to find con­nect with oth­ers, and to retrieve infor­ma­tion – and this is the most impor­tant thing you have to remem­ber when you are using social net­work­ing for your survival.

This arti­cle is here to let you know how to use net­work­ing with­out jeop­ardy your cur­rent posi­tion (espe­cially in reces­sion time).

As an office sur­vivor  you know by now how to use the net­work­ing to upgrade your­self, but what about keep­ing your cur­rent posi­tion while you are look­ing for some­thing else in order to survive?

Your super­vi­sor or any other key mem­bers of the office prob­a­bly using the same social net­work­ing sites as you, as this might turn the social net­work­ing to a “big brother” that will mon­i­tor your steps and alarm oth­ers about your steps.

We always keep clas­si­fied net­work­ing as a tool that helps us to in the office , but we never look for­ward and exam­ine the dan­ger­ous that such tool can bring upon us as los­ing our job or mark­ing us in the office.

Here are 3 sim­ple rules of pre­cau­tion when using net­work­ing while try­ing to survive/ as those rules have affect while you are work­ing and want to be dis­crete about your job search:

1. Don’t change your sta­tus to some­thing that will say: “seek­ing new oppor­tu­ni­ties” or “look­ing for a new posi­tion” or some­thing sim­i­lar. That kind of sta­tus indi­cate you aren’t sat­is­fied and your office will try to min­i­mize the risk of you leav­ing them with­out a time to find a proper replace­ment, this sta­tus gives the office enough time to find a replace­ment for your posi­tion and to release you before you’ll find a new place.
2.  Don’t change your sta­tus to some­thing that say or indi­cate that you are “bored”, “need change”, or some­thing sim­i­lar. This sta­tus indi­cates some­thing that might con­sider your per­sonal life and not your work sta­tus, but it trig­ger alarm for your super­vi­sor as you don’t have sat­is­fac­tion or not giv­ing 100% in your work.
3. Avoid address­ing close friends of your super­vi­sor that write in their sta­tus that they are seek­ing employ­ees for a desire posi­tion you wish to have. Close friends tends to talk, seek­ing a new job is a dis­crete move and you don’t want it to be known until you find a new place, same rea­son here as above – if your super­vi­sor knows you are seek­ing a new place he’ll find a replace­ment for you.

The con­clu­sion for this arti­cle is pretty much as the first one, the net­work­ing is for you; but learn how to use it for your advan­tages as it power might turn against you and you will find your­self look­ing for a job after loos­ing your job and not while you are work­ing at.

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