Virtual Competence

Are you virtually competent?

I just read an article by Jennifer Kavur in the August 17th issue of ComputerWorld Canada which talks about this term - Virtual Competente, the new softskill - a term coined by Haggerty and Wang from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario.

Virtual Competence consists of three skill sets:

- Virtual Social Skills or an individual's capability to build online social relationships

- Virtual Media Skills, which are the actual capabilities in using a range of tools and features, and

- Virtual Self-Efficacy or self-confidence.

If you don't have these skills, you might want to develop them as in the same issue, there was another article by Jenniver about employers seeking proof of Web 2.0 savvy in new recruits. She highlighted a recent job posting for Best Buy which requested a graduate degree and a "minimum of 250 followers on Twitter.

So, how virtually savvy are you? Do yolu Twitter? Do you use Facebook? Do you participate on any social media networking sites? If not, better start brushing up now!

Happy job hunting

Fran Watson

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