ITL172: How Social Media Can Make or Break Your Child's Job Opportunities
In the Loop with Andy Andrews
Matt Lempert
4.9 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2015
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode, I answer a listener question on how teens’ social media accounts affect their life and their employability.
You’ve heard me talk about how we’re misinformed about change. There are two things that have to be there with every single change.
- What’s in it for me?
- Proof beyond a reasonable doubt.
- It is critical that you understand how change occurs.
The guidelines for social media are going to be different for different people. Knowing that, what we do want is the best for everybody.
- The one thing that separates 100% great results from scattered results is explaining why we do things this way.
- One of the first things you want to do with your kids is make sure they know what you want their life to be like when they’re an adult.
- Build stories and examples.
I talk to a lot of people who are in the position of hiring and firing.
- When a company puts out word that they are hiring, they sometimes get 10’s or even 100’s of applications.
- Somebody will knock it down to the top people by just looking at the applicants’ social media profiles for obvious reasons not to hire someone (cursing, nudity, etc.).
- They will then knock it down to a few people after having personal interviews.
- Now they are down to the best people and just need to find a reason to pull someone.
Companies are looking for someone that is going to represent them outside of work.
- Let’s say 9 years ago you had your picture taken with your hat on backwards.
- We know that having a hat on backwards is not something bad or sinful, but 20% of people may think that’s not a good look.
- While they know you wouldn’t be wearing your hat backwards at work, they may wonder if it’s still the way you present yourself to people.
- Since they have to cut someone, something as little as that could be the difference between you starting at a company and you not having a job.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to In the Loop, a unique opportunity to see life from a different perspective |
| 0:06.5 | with New York Times bestselling author, Andy Andrews. Now here's your host, David Loy. |
| 0:12.9 | Hi, and welcome to In the Loop with Andy Andrews. I'm your host, David Loy. Andy, thanks for |
| 0:18.3 | joining us again. Glad to be here, David. |
| 0:21.6 | How are you? |
| 0:22.6 | I am fantastic. |
| 0:28.9 | You have had a couple of interesting weeks, and you're off to a crazy start. |
| 0:30.6 | You've been traveling all over the country. |
| 0:41.4 | You went from, correct me if I'm wrong, but a couple weeks ago, you went from, let's say, 60 degrees down to below zero in the same day? |
| 0:43.1 | Yeah, several times. I went Miami to Minnesota, from Orlando to Iowa when they were having. |
| 0:52.4 | We landed, it was like minus three. I took a picture outside the |
| 0:56.9 | airplane window, which I never do, but I looked out and I went, oh my gosh. And I, so I took a |
| 1:03.4 | picture out and when we landed, I texted to Polly and the boys and said, I have landed on |
| 1:09.3 | the moon. I mean, that's what it looked like. |
| 1:12.6 | That's crazy. And I know you were in the Northeast during their big storm as well, but somehow, |
| 1:18.0 | somehow your flights made it. Yeah. Yeah, just amazing. Amazing. And they were mostly two flight days, |
| 1:25.7 | which is pretty easy. My theory, David, for those of you who travel in air, tell me if you think this is correct, |
| 1:33.5 | but my theory is a one flight day, if you have a schedule and you're flying from one place |
| 1:39.2 | to another, you've got a pretty good chance of getting there. |
| 1:41.8 | You know, you've got a pretty good chance of everything being on time. |
| 1:43.9 | A two flight day, you're down to 50-50. Yeah, I mean, you've got a good chance of |
| 1:49.7 | something messing up. A three-flight day, something is definitely screwing up. So make sure you |
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