Career – LinkedIn Workshop

Today I attend a Starr career development workshop explaining what LinkedIn is and how to properly use it. The workshop was an hour long and I thought the workshop was going to boring and that LinkedIn was not that useful. I was mistaken the workshop was very interesting and I learned quite a bit about LinkedIn. LinkedIn is basically a social network platform for professionals. I was taught how to properly make a good profile, with tips about profile summary and headline. The guy also explained different features of LinkedIn like how you can see who has viewed your profile. He also explained the benefits of using LinkedIn. LinkedIn allows you to connect with professionals in a different way because resumes and emails get lost or forgotten easily. You can search for professionals, making it easier to network. Also there are job postings on LinkedIn and LinkedIn will recommend jobs based on your experience, preferences, location, interests and skills. This workshop taught me a lot and introduced a new resource for my future career development. LinkedIn is very useful resource that I will definitely use. It allows for me to easier create a network of professionals as well as manage them. This will most definitely help me get a job in the future and I have very glad that I went.