Digital Identity, Research, & PLN – Taking your PLN from the local community to the global community

-Consider how you can use the PLN interactions of this course to further your digital identity post-term. What does it mean to have a digital identity in your industry of choice and can your current PLN be used to help professional development post-course?

-Additionally, as you progress through the steps of your career, can your PLN be relied on to open professional opportunities?

PLN interactions is a practical learning strategy that I have more concepts learned after taking this course. To further apply my digital identity in the study of my program, I realize the connection between people is positive. On the internet, we all have different aspects of ourselves. We distribute professional digital identity and personal digital identity to protect our privacy and avoid disruption of life. PLN asks us to play an inclusive character and be humble to those critics and Network residents. PLN is about participation in a different group of people. In the most important and difficult process of our life, job searching, People have more opportunity to find the most interesting position for them if they are involved in the PLN. Due to many jobs in the job market are even never available advertised. These jobs are fulfilled through the internal referred and professional network. On the Internet, information is more rapidly exchanged. For my undergraduate study and career planning, I can easily observe what specific companies are, what they are hiring for, what skills and experiences they prize most. If you are an introverted personality and feel difficult to establish your PLN, you can start with people you know. It is awful when you walk into a room and ask for the business card of many strangers. But you can learn from your current circle of classmates, colleagues and friends in order to expand your circle of specific company, industry or career path. As we studied in this course, Jody Vance shared her story to introduce to us that volunteering can expand our network and gain skills. We have to find a meaningful social activity to engage in social connection. PLN is more about giving than taking. You have to set a goal about what you want to offer to people you’d like to know. You can inspire people through an idea where you are expertise, or sharing resources that you are interested in or you think someone is interested in. You can take a class and explore PLN by building connections with other students as well. As a fourth-year student, I found the PLN gives people power and support them taking further steps to their career.