As a rejection of social networks will help career development
Work And Study / / December 25, 2019
If you do not want to become a model, the social networks are unlikely to help you build a successful career. There are several strong arguments in favor of why it is better to concentrate fully on the job and stop writing on Facebook about his life.
Newport Calvin (Calvin Newport), Associate Professor, Department of Information Technology at Georgetown University (Washington, DC), the author of books and articles about building a career, advises to leave the social networks if you want to achieve good results in their work.
This advice runs counter to our usual understanding of the role of social networking in the professional sphere. We often talk about the importance of maintaining proper "person" on the web, or even on the construction of 'I-brand', as it certainly should help us to begin contact with the "useful" people to move up the career stairs. People are afraid that without the presence in social networks, they become invisible or less visible to potential employers.
We feel obliged to keep their pages in a certain way. Now, every owner of the page in Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, «VKontakte" a social network fact keeps a blog about his life and to think about its correct filling of being on display all Internet.
However, the ability to seamlessly conduct page in the social network - it's not something that will evaluate your potential employer. The labor market is well paid for rare or unique abilities. such abilities Keeping your page is not exactly true: today, any teenager can create Viral text that will get their 15 minutes of fame, but for a large number of comments grabs candid photos. It is unlikely that such activity will increase your value as a professional.
To become a successful professional is difficult, but very real. The basis successful career almost always lies in the fact that you are doing great things that are important and necessary for other people. This idea is probably best summed up the actor Steve Martin, who gave the advice:
Be so good that you can not ignore.
If you do so, then everything else will happen by itself, regardless of the number of your followers on social networks.
It can be argued that the use of social networking sites can not hurt, so why, doing its work on fine, does not add a connection and possible useful contacts, which you can buy it through social network?
First, despite the claims of proponents of social networks, useful contacts in a professional environment is not such a great rarity and offline. The main thing here - do not be afraid to meet and communicate with colleagues, to maintain professional communication in the event of dismissal or decree that is just more comfortable to do is social networking. View personal photos colleagues contributes little to correct professional communication.
It is also true that the more professional you become, the more offers on cooperation you will receive, and the merits of social networking is not.
Secondly, it is doubtful that social networks are not harmful. The ability to concentrate on complex tasks without distraction is becoming increasingly valuable asset in today's realities. Social networks that skill weaken because they are specifically designed to attract and retain us. The more you use social networks - especially during the work - the better your brain learns to be distracted from the work at the slightest boredom or fatigue.
It becomes difficult to carry out tasks that involve total immersion in the problem, because the brain simply refuses to concentrate on something for a long time with no extra effort. If your work is connected with the need to focus, the social networks are particularly harmful for you.
The habit of advancing themselves exclusively on social networks - this is a very passive approach to social progress in general. It takes your attention and time to work on it, to convince the world that you are important, replacing the essence of the picture. Moreover, such it becomes very tempting for many - to pose as that person you do not It is actually - and leads many on the wrong path, substitute their values and making them unproductive.
If you really want to achieve something, you want to become more effective, then during operation disconnect the phone, close the tab and work tirelessly.