Global Trends Impacting Careers in the Next Five to Seven Years

In the last ten to fifteen years accompanying the dawn of social media, means of communication among friends and strangers have been easier than ever. Since its creation in 2004, Facebook has grown into the largest social media site on the Internet with 30 million users and counting. The ability to catch up with former high school friends who are now across the country or see how an aunt in Pittsburgh has been doing since the birth of her son are now as simple as the click of a mouse. However, the amount of “friends” acquired on social media may not be an accurate reflection of how many close relationships one truly shares. In an article from Bigthink.com titled “Do You Have Too Many Facebook Friends?”, Steven Mazie gathers research from Pew Research Center about statistics surrounding Facebook

In this article she is giving us a look into the damage that social networks can do to students in their job, school, and life. She talks about the millions of members that are already using these sites and that they still growing. The members use these sites to make friends, find old friends, and to talk to friends. “The only

In recent years digital globalisation has had a significant influence in the way in which individuals and organisations work. Virtual working and crowdsourcing will be examined as examples of contemporary practices and ideas will be supported by empirical evidence from the last ten years. (Examples from 2008 onwards will be used where possible given impact of the financial crash and relevance to the current labour market). The argument will then progress to discuss the broader implications to career patterns reviewing the traditional organisational career model and more contemporary concepts.

The film ‘How Social Networks Predict Epidemics’ by Nicholas Christakis explores the influence of social networks on people’s lives and how it can be used to predict epidemics.Social networks are key connectors among individuals in all societies today. They are avenues through which people learn and share many new things with others. Social networks are so instrumental in determining many issues like employment and salaries, and the transmission of diseases. It is, therefore, crucial to comprehend why and how the networks influence the patterns as they do.

Medical assistants there have been significant changes in the management of healthcare services, both in the United States and across Europe. As a result, more middle management positions have become

Is the advent and increasing use of social networks for human communication a net gain or loss? It is my point, and the point of this essay, to argue that even though we are communicating much more, we are going backwards in the overall experience and in interpersonal development as humans.

One interesting point the author provided was how to use social network effectively. In fact, there are various social network services in today, such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. Sometimes using social networks correctly could bolster your career relationship-building activities. Also the greatest advantage is that these services could maintain your address book and update your networking contracts information timely. However, the author also discuss some tips that people should notice when they using social network. For instance, watch your tone when you post comments or photos. Because online platforms are very sensitive places, if we want to make a good impression to others, we need to build an active and healthy profile. What’s more, learn how to use keywords galore. Searching key words can help you find relevant information about what you want to know. Thus, you need to incorporate all the keywords someone might use to find you. It is a good way to meet new opportunities and

The author illustrates in her blog the power and impact Facebook had on the population by convincing to be “a place of human connectivity,” but

It is accepted that social network sites enable individuals to conduct interactions with different types of users within the system, which can build online relationships with others. Castells (1996) states that each individual can be seen as a node within the network spaces, while the network society can be constructed by the different connections of nodes. As being a special network of the society, SNSs allow people to build personal relationships and networks with other users. In a board sense, the term ‘friendship’ can be used to describe the online relationships on SNSs without the limitations of face-to-face friendships. Spencer and Pahl (2006) defines this kind of friendship as friend-like relationship. Chambers (2013) also argues that there is no accident that the term ‘friendship’ can be employed to describe all social connections on social network sites. Thus, the traditional concept of friendship has changed from physical and intimate relationships to conceptual and virtual relationships in the SNSs context.

* What makes social network sites unique is not that they allow individuals to meet strangers, but rather that they enable users to articulate and make visible their social networks. This can result in connections between individuals that would not otherwise be made, but that is often not the goal, and these meetings are frequently between "latent ties" (Haythornthwaite, 2005) who share some offline connection. On many of the large SNSs, participants are not necessarily "networking" or looking to meet new people; instead, they are primarily communicating with people who are already a part of their extended social network. To emphasize this articulated social network as a critical organizing feature of these sites, we label them "social network sites."

Social network sites (SNSs) such as such as Friendster, CyWorld, and MySpace allow individuals to present themselves, articulate their social networks, and establish or maintain connections with others (Ellison, 2007). These sites could be used for work related situation, romance, connecting with individuals with shared interest, or creating a connection amongst college students. Facebook enables its users to present themselves in an online profile, accumulate ‘‘friends’’ who can post comments on each other’s pages, and view each other’s profiles (Ellison, 2007). Individuals can write on the wall of friends, send private message, comment on posts, as well as chat via instant messaging. Much of the early research on online communities assumed that individuals using these systems would be connecting with others outside their pre-existing social group or location, liberating them to form communities around shared interests, as opposed to shared geography (Ellison, 2007).

David Fincher’s The Social Network follows the formation of the popular social networking site, Facebook, from it’s inception to its one millionth user. The creation of Facebook has had an unprecedented impact on the way society communicates today. The website’s founder Mark Zuckerberg, the film’s antihero, has completely restructured how people form social bonds and transformed how society perceives the socializing process. The Social Network examines exactly how this social outcast revolutionized communication to reflect his own social behavior.

Over the past few years something has taken a toll in most people’s lives, we use it, love it, talk about it, and check it almost every hour of every day: this thing is called social networks. It was only a few years back, in 2003, when MySpace was discovered, and in 2004 when Mark Zuckerberg established Facebook, and soon after in 2006 Twitter followed. These sites became more than just an online destination, but a way of life. Notifications, follower counts, friend requests, photo comments- all what might seem like silly things that teenagers and adults alike await the moment they come home to check. We scroll unconsciously through feeds and pictures of people we barely know, from the inquisitive human nature. At school everyone is

Society is constantly changing and will continue to change in the future. The change is predictable because people change their ideas, routines, and views frequently. One of the topics that is typically brought up when discussing the influences on how society is changing, is social networking. There are two sides to every story. One side of the effects of social networking is that it is beneficial to society by informing people on particular situations in the world and on current important events. The other side views social networking as dangerous and drama filled. While there are benefits and dangers to social networking's effects on society, I will argue that social networking has changed society more negatively than positively.

Q: Where will the jobs be in the next five years? Prepare a list of any four careers of the future. Be specific.