Social Media & the Industry

FullSizeRender(4)FullSizeRender(3)FullSizeRender(2)Being a Hospitality major there are a lot of tricks and fun new advancements that our professors are all just dying to introduce us to. The more time passes the more advanced we are becoming as people. Resumes are still a very important part of any industry but more than that, our daily lives, our social accounts, and our choices in pass times are being view as fit or not for a position at any industry.

Employers can now type a person’s name into a search engine and based off the good/and or bad content that they find can decide if they want said person to be representing their company. Will they say they did a search, most likely not but it is being done.

Social media and the internet as a whole can be use to an advantage though. Using social media such as Instagram, Twitter, Facebook etc. can be in a way to network and market yourself. Many highly respected industry people and companies have some type of social media representation and what better way to connect with them than through accounts we are use to using day in and day out.