Education Feature: Impact of social media on the world of work

This evening on our education feature we look at the impact that social media can media on your own personal branding as an employee or prospective employee. What you post and say can determine whether you get hired or not. In some instances it might get your fired or given a written warning especially if you bring your company or brands you represent into disrepute. Sandile Gumede, a Ph.D candidate in media studies at Wits and a journalism lecturer at the IIE Rosebank College, wrote an interesting article titled “Think twice before posting it”, and he joins to talk about the impact hat social media plays in our world of work.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.