What were three useful points that articles provided that “ring true” to you and how can they help you? 

• Create a personal site where you share your best ideas, best practices and even frustrations as a professional.
• Speaking publicly speak and writing helps is good practice and ultimately helps you to develop better at selling skills needed to sell ideas to clients, but most all become better at job interviews.
• Need to have a web presence (more than just a portfolio of work on sites like Behance & Dribble) especially if you design, develop, or project manage websites and applications, or do other UX, strategy. Blogs are a great place to start building that presence.
• Become a contributor to sites like Github or Fonts in Use

Find an article that gives guidance about how to leverage social media to get a job:

How to Use Social Media to Land a Job