EdX

Career Networking: Build a Social Media Presence (edX)

Offered by Indiana University, IUx,
Career Networking: Build a Social Media Presence (edX)

Learn to use social media platforms and social networks to build and advance your professional online presence and career goals. Develop strategies to connect with your target audience while posting content that increases your industry knowledge and network.

Class Deals by MOOC List - Click here and see EdX's Active Discounts, Deals, and Promo Codes.

Utilizing social media accounts to develop an online presence is an essential tool to connect with other professionals and build a knowledge base that advances your career and ability to communicate in the virtual age.
Workplaces now include virtual modes of communication and social networks as a standard in conducting business. Additionally, hiring managers often look to social media profiles, like Linkedin for recruitment. Social media sites can provide the breakthrough opportunity for entry level workers, career/industry changers, and small businesses owners. This creates a need for individuals to have an online presence via their social media accounts.
This course will show learners how to use social media platforms to build and advance their professional network.
Specific strategies will be demonstrated to create effective social media profiles while also posting content that generates organic connections. Learn to network with professionals in your area of interest and build your online presence within groups and teams.
This course is part of the Digital Teamwork and Business Skills Professional Certificate.

What you'll learn

  • Categorize the primary social media platforms and engagement benefits
  • Professionally assess your current social media activity
  • Create effective LinkedIn profiles and posts for maximum interaction
  • Communicate professionally with potential connections
  • Build a social media plan to advance your career goals
Go to Class
MOOC List is learner-supported. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Related Courses

Leveraging strategies to address global communication challenges (edX) EdX
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University,HKPolyUx

Leveraging strategies to address global communication challenges (edX)

With rapid globalization and proliferation of social media, businesses and organizations are in face of enormous communication challenges. By seeing challenge as opportunity, this course aims to unfold communication challenges induced by the rise of social media and offer solutions to overcome these challenges.

Jun 1st 2022
5-12 Weeks
Introducción a las redes sociales. Sus objetivos y métricas. (Coursera) Coursera
Tecnológico de Monterrey

Introducción a las redes sociales. Sus objetivos y métricas. (Coursera)

En este programa se hará, de manera holística, una revisión del uso e implementación de redes sociales. Se provee de un conocimiento sólido en el desarrollo de estrategias requeridas en una organización para involucrar a los consumidores y miembros de la misma en un ambiente de social listening.

Nov 16th 2026
5-12 Weeks
Marketing Digital: Content & Community Manager (edX) EdX
Galileo University,GalileoX

Marketing Digital: Content & Community Manager (edX)

Aprende a crear estrategias de marketing de contenidos y domina Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter y más. Mide KPIs y obten resultados. En este curso tendrás acceso a tutoriales y plantillas descargables de marketing digital para que pongas en práctica la teoría. Con ayuda de un Mentor de Google en Marketing podrás identificar cuáles son las mejores redes sociales para empresas y marcas. Descubrirás cómo armar un plan de marketing en redes sociales, cómo crear contenido de valor, cómo gestionar varias cuentas de redes sociales y cómo usar las redes sociales para atraer a clientes de todo el mundo, posicionar tu marca, lanzar un nuevo producto, vender más y cumplir con otros objetivos reales.

Self Paced
Self-Paced
Systems Science and Obesity (Coursera) Coursera
Johns Hopkins University

Systems Science and Obesity (Coursera)

Systems science has been instrumental in breaking new scientific ground in diverse fields such as meteorology, engineering and decision analysis. However, it is just beginning to impact public health. This seminar is designed to introduce students to basic tools of theory building and data analysis in systems science and to apply those tools to better understand the obesity epidemic in human populations.

Nov 16th 2026
4 Weeks
Engagement in a Time of Polarization (edX) EdX
Davidson College,DavidsonX

Engagement in a Time of Polarization (edX)

How have our online interactions and engagement - as a society - become so toxic? Is there anything we as individuals and citizens can do to stop this trend, or at least stop it from stopping us? How can we work together in a society where our communications channels have become so polarized? Can we engage in active, effective collaboration in a media ecosystem designed to make money from driving us apart?

No sessions available
2 Weeks
Preparing to Network in English (edX) EdX
University of Washington,UWashingtonX

Preparing to Network in English (edX)

Learn the basics of networking while you grow your social network and professional connections. Practice speaking to improve your English language skills for increased success in job hunting. Networking in the business world is key to career success. Research shows that many jobs are never officially advertised. Many companies rely on word-of-mouth advertising to hire employees, so connections with people are important!

Self Paced
Self-Paced
Digital Wellbeing and Productivity (edX) EdX
Jesus College, University of Cambridge

Digital Wellbeing and Productivity (edX)

Individuals and organisations now face the challenge of finding a healthy balance between productivity and downtime. How can we adapt to changes in our digital lives, while remaining healthy and happy? What habits can help us get the most out of our time and energy online? How can we best manage digital wellbeing while maintaining productive digital habits? And how can individuals, teams, businesses, and institutions learn from research-based knowledge to create digital habits and skills to help us flourish together?

Self Paced
Self-Paced
IT Fundamentals for Business Professionals: Cybersecurity and social implications (edX) EdX
Universitat Politècnica de València,UPValenciaX

IT Fundamentals for Business Professionals: Cybersecurity and social implications (edX)

Working with Information Technology (IT) without the necessary background? Learn about cybersecurity, careers, and social implications of IT. This course is one of the 5 courses of an introductory business information systems series, designed to introduce you to the amazing world of Information Technology.

Self Paced
Self-Paced
Making Sense of News (edX) EdX
University of Hong Kong,HKUx

Making Sense of News (edX)

With social media and a 24/7 news cycle, how do we — as news consumers — make sense of what we hear and read? At a time when we are flooded with an abundance of information and disinformation, it is essential for each one of us to become a more discerning news consumer.

No sessions available
4 Weeks
Strategic Social Media Marketing (edX) EdX
Boston University,BUx

Strategic Social Media Marketing (edX)

Learn how to drive social media engagement by linking strategy and tactics and measuring results. Social media technologies are continuously transforming the ways consumers interact with each other and firms. These changes constitute a fundamental shift in the marketplace--consumers have greater opportunities to voice their opinions and connect with their peers as well as increased influence over marketers and brands.

This course is archived
5-12 Weeks