This course is free to Hackney residents. A deposit of £20 will be taken at booking and fully refunded upon completion of the course. Find full details on our website. Social Media can be a useful tool for making your CV or portfolio accessible to employers and being notified of career opportunities. This course is ideal for anyone who wants to learn how to use social media to build a network of useful contacts and promote their personal profile. It covers how to set up and manage profiles on: LinkedIn, Facebook and X.
The course covers the following:
- What is LinkedIn?
- Set up your LinkedIn profile with key information
- Use keywords so your skills and services get noticed
- Know LinkedIn etiquette and best practices
- Publish content on LinkedIn
- What is Facebook?
- Creating a Facebook account
- Understanding Facebook timelines, finding friends, lists, status updates
- Creating a Facebook page
- Using a Facebook page to promote a business or event
- Develop Facebook engagement
- What is X?
- Setting up an X account
- Writing Tweets
- Following people and gaining followers
- What to say / what not to say
- How to measure your success
Completing this course will enable you to:
- Setup and manage a LinkedIn profile page
- Setup and manage an X account
- Setup and manage a Facebook page
- Open doors to new contacts, new information, and new opportunities.
- Understand how to promote your own personal profile through multiple social media channels
- Use social media for marketing, communication, research, and information gathering.
Course requirements:
This course is provided free of charge to Hackney residents who have UK/EU citizenship and were aged 19 or older on 31/08/2023. To enrol you will need to give a Hackney address. The course runs on 2 days over 2 weeks.
Places are booked on a first come first served basis. A deposit of £20 will be taken at booking and fully refunded upon completion of the course. We are operating a stand by / waiting list in case courses are fully booked.
Attendees should have basic PC skills. If English is not your first language you should have a good level of English in order to participate.
