Through the STARR weekly newsletter, I discovered that a LinkedIn Profile Development Workshop would take place in the STARR Center on Tuesday, October 31st. I attended the career workshop, genuinely interested in what I could learn because I haven’t actually set up a LinkedIn profile as of yet. I’m aware that LinkedIn expands our social network, and if I intend to apply for a job in the near future, it’d be helpful to create a professional profile for myself. LinkedIn is formed to share our professional information and showcase our best work. In that way, companies can get a proper image of you as an employee, and determine whether or not you’re the suited employee for them.

The workshop had put together a PowerPoint to guide us along the important details and aspects that make up a LinkedIn profile. They also made sure we all left with a copy of the checklist consisting of the steps on creating the appropriate professional profile for future reference. The speaker also focused on something that might seem small, but is very effective because it is in fact the first thing an employer who crosses your profile sees, so it sets an impression of you. It is your profile picture; what makes a professional profile picture. We also learned what to put and not put under our experiences and how to write a quality summary. To set the overall picture for us, the speaker discussed how we utilize yelp when we’re looking for a new restaurant to determine whether it will be worth it based on the pictures, ratings, and comments. Our LinkedIn profile pictures are like the pictures from the restaurant, and our summaries, experiences, detailed information about ourselves , etc. are like the comments on the food. With the guidance I received this day, I am working on creating a LinkedIn profile that will showcase the best of myself.