On October 31st, Tuesday, I attended a career workshop in the star career development center on how to set up a LinkedIn profile. As we all know, LinkedIn expands our social network and allows us to explore companies with available opportunities. So it is crucial that an appropriate profile is developed to share professional information about ourselves and to showcase our best work. I have always had a desire to learn how to build my networking in LinkedIn so I attended the workshop with my friends and at the meantime get a topic for my career blog while learning new thing.
Unfortunately, the workshop started with a technological problem of wifi disconnection and the presentation went on with only the PowerPoint. Despite the issue with network, the presentation was clear with all the slides listing out specific details and guidelines. We also received a hard copy of the checklist for future reference with detailed outlines of the important steps on how to create a LinkedIn profile. The workshop is tedious enough to provide information of what makes a professional profile photo, what to put down and not to put down under our experiences, how to build social network and how to write a good summary.
The speaker Gerald started out the presentation with an analogy of going to a restaurant. He talked of how before we try out a new food place we would go on yelp to search for reviews, pictures and comments then we will decide if the place is where we want our food. He went on explaining that our LinkedIn profile is a review of ourselves that anyone would judge us based on what is on there. The pictures of the restaurant are equivalent to our profile picture, and the content inside our account is the reviews and comments about ourselves. Through Gerald, I gained new insights about how we could be represented on social media especially in the professional work field.
for an analysis essay assigned by my art history professor. As a famous tourist site, there are a lot of visitors in the museum. However, the museum is commodious enough to hold the large number of visitors exploring art works there. The museum is divided into different zones according to different art origins and time periods. Art pieces are placed in a reasonable order so that they are not too close to each other that they influence the effect of viewing. Next to each art piece is the museum label giving information about the work. From my observation, the museum labels only give a brief introduction of the art works and leave space for the viewers’ own interpretation. Since art works of the same period and origins are sorted into one zone, it is easy to become dazed by the large number of art pieces. Of all the paintings hung on the wall, I encountered one exquisite triptych protected inside a glass box, standing out from all the others. It is small but as I took a closer look, I was surprised by the tedious details included inside (Quoted from my Museum Response Paper). I spent quite a bit time there observing the work and decided to write about how it awed me. After my observation, I took a walk around the museum to view different art works. It was astounding how by switching between different parts of the museum could lead to completely different auras and cultures. The experience felt like a journey to the world and a travel in time. It broadened my horizon and taught me not to limit myself to only one possibility as in one single museum exist civilizations from around the world and even from decades ago. Overall, my experience in the Metropolitan Museum of Art is enriching and memorable.