Employment in Industry

 Employment in Industry

The jobs that you can do within the social media is creating a Linkedln profile, it is the easiest way to make connections in your industry from home. Your own personal profile must have detail relevant professional information including your own previous experiences, skillset and education history in which you can use them for connecting companies and individuals and start building a network of contacts. Also you can use Twitter as it offers a more relaxed approach to social networking, where its users can discuss their interests through likes, retweets and sharing 280-character updates. For users who want to use Twitter, you must include your job applications, it is a excellent way to show employers your personality and having the confidence to invite the others in and will make a great impression.

Conduct some industry research into the media area that you are most interested in working within:

I would like to work within Instagram because Instagram is one the easiest and popular social media platforms to use, you can get a lot of followers really easy if your account is about a famous personality or anything that is well known by everybody. There many job applications in the UK that you can work remotely, all you need to do is to build an engaged community using social media such as Instagram and prepare and execute a social media strategy to expand social following and the most important, is to create a successful Instagram stories and Ads that increase followers everyday. 

What companies are active in these areas in the UK?

There are about 20 or 30 places active in the UK that does Social Media Specialists. London, Leeds and Glasgow are one those places in the UK that have this type of job, the highest salary is Guardian HR in London which you'll receive £13,719 - £70,000 a year and the one from Leeds, you'll receive £23,000 - £25,000 a year.  As for active companies for sports journalism, there is jobs in London, Newcastle and Leeds. For example The Sun is one of the most active companies for sports journalists where journalism is produced every day and their newspapers or articles are read by 5 million people and even more millions online and social media in the UK.

What type of jobs are available within this area and what are the job roles?:

In London, there is another type of job within social media is social media marketing which is to design and manage marketing campaigns via mail-chimp. The objectives of this job roles is to promote brand awareness and grow social media following & engagement. Job roles in social media marketing are interacting with customers and dealing with customer's enquiries, also managing a budget to be spent on promoting social media posts and pay-per-click advertising. 

What skills/experience are required to follow a career in this area?:

The requirements for an experience in the social media specialist is at least 3 years, including planning and managing content in corporate or agency setting. Also you need a bachelors degree in journalism, communications, marketing, or a related field and the ability to work in fast-paced, high-pressure environment. Another experiences or skills that you need to join the industry is to write in a excellent and verbal communication skills and you must have a through understanding of social media management and strategy.

What types of employment are typical? Employees or freelance (and what each entails):

Freelancers in social media are those who reinforce their brand positioning and key messages across key Social channels as for employees, they are responsible for creating and administering content on all social media platforms. I think the most typical in the social media industry are employees because I think creating content for all social media platforms is most important because you need to attract your own specific audience by making content that is for one specific audience for example if you want to make a Instagram account dedicated on sports, music and cooking then your audience is going the ones who like either sports, music or cooking.