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Your Personal Brand: Consider your values, strengths, interests, goals and career field and how you want to be perceived professionally.
Choose a profile photo/head shot that best represents you and the professional brand you want to create for yourself.
Add a cover photo/image that further best represents your brand,
Developing a profile and building your brand
update and change your cover image as often as you want!
To edit and develop your profile content, click on “Me” in top right of screen, then “view profile,” then “edit public profile and URL,” then “edit contents”
Add/edit profile sections: “Intro, about, featured, background, skills, accomplishments, additional information, and supported languages”
Your “about” section should provide a brief glimpse of who you are including insight into your personality, values, experience, interests, and goals for your career path.
Add/edit sub-sections: Featured- posts, articles, links (to personal websites, social media etc.), media (ie. upload your resume); Background- work experience, education, licenses and certifications, volunteer experience; Accomplishments- publications, patents, courses, projects, honors and awards, test scores, languages, organizations; Additional information- request a recommendation
The more detail you add for each section- the more your profile will stand out to employers and connections!
This is your opportunity to showcase experiences and accomplishments that you can’t necessarily fit on your resume.
Highlight major accomplishments of professional experiences including
Adding experience
numbers to quantify as often as possible.
Highlight job responsibilities, leadership, and event participation where applicable.
Describe responsibilities for volunteer work and internships just as you would work experience.
Incorporate “action verbs” to begin experience descriptions: “Collaborated with staff and faculty to lead over 15 career development workshops throughout the course of one semester.”
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Connecting on LinkedIn allows you to follow, be followed, and direct message individuals via your messaging center. Just like Facebook, the
Making connections
more friends/”connections” you have/add, the broader your sphere of influence is for finding jobs and opportunities.
Search and connect with past/current professors, colleagues, professionals, fellow students, supervisors and supervisees (you can never have too many connections!), as well as friends. It is also important to follow organizations, groups, professional associations and institutions that interest you to further expand your sphere of influence!
The more articles and posts you share, the more your page will pop up
Developing "Activity" content
on your followers’ feed (AKA putting yourself out there more!). This goes the same for liking articles and posts by those you follow.
Develop your profile further by creating posts and sharing photos of important experiences and accomplishments including those of whom you supervise or work with. Post about job openings or opportunities within your current office or organization.
Endorsements can be provided by past supervisors, supervisees,
Endorsements and recommendations
colleagues or professors to boost recognition for your various listed skills to make your profile stand out more.
Add endorsements for others on their skills if you have worked with them!
Request professional recommendations from connections under the “additional information” main section.
Click on “Jobs” link at top of home page and type in a key word or job title and location to begin search.
Searching for jobs on LinkedIn
From here you can customize your search by refining for job type (fulltime/part-time/volunteer/internship etc.), most recent job postings, desired experience level, specific companies, remote work and more via the “all filters” tab.
“Save” specific positions during searches.
Allow job alerts to be turned on for when a new position pops up within your position and title interests.
Want more advice? Schedule an appointment with your Promise Coach! And check out the latest job and internship opportunities at liu.edu/handshake