1. Create Your Professional Self
The Story of an
Awesome LinkedIn Profile...
By Dylan Denault & John Horn
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2. Bios
Dylan Denault
John Horn
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3. Contents:
Dylan’s LinkedIn Story
! ! Be Found - create a great profile
! ! ! ! Finding opportunities, ! ! ! !
! ! ! ! Organizations and people.
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4. Outcomes:
Design a great profile.
Evaluate and organize professional
Skills, experiences, and widgets.
Explain how to use LinkedIn to find
work, learn about organizations and
connect with people ! ! ! ! !! ! !
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5. My LinkedIn Story
Motivations
Feelings - creating my Profile
Making Connections
Advice - Completing Profile
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6. Motivations
A recent UBC Alumni.
Transition into professional world.
“Everybody’s doing it”.
A changing job world.
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7. Feelings
Syncing email contacts
Do I even have enough experiences
to build a profile?
Connecting with someone you have
never met in RL?
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8. My Questions
Making LinkedIn a priority...
! ! How much should I check it?
How do I get the most out of
LinkedIn as a professional social
networking tool?
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9. My Advice
Use the Resources available to
you.
Show your profile to others. Get
Feedback.
Make it your OWN.
Use it to CONNECT.
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10. Be Found
Get noticed with a
great profile
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11. Three Things
1. Write for the web
2. Connect everything
3. Hit your 50
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12. Be Found
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13. Write for the Web.
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14. Personalize and
Connect Everything
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15. Write for the Web.
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16. Be Younique.
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17. Endorsements.
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18. Recommendations.
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19. Activity
Create your Profile
(5 mins) - writing
(5 mins) - reflection
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20. Find Cool
Stuff
1. People
2. Organizations
3. Jobs
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21. Find Connections.
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22. Personalize
Always.
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23. Get Introduced.
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24. Introduction
Request.
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25. Find Organizations.
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26. Find Jobs.
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27. Join Groups.
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28. Be Younique...
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29. Activity 2
Questions:
1. What kind of people do you want to meet?
2. What industries do you want to explore?
3. What groups will you join?
How will you use LinkedIn to get there?
(5 mins - Find Cool Stuff)
(5 mins - Present Findings)
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30. “Be yourself.
Everyone else
is taken.”
- Oscar Wilde
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31. If I do one thing
differently tomorrow,
it will be...
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32. Outcomes:
Design a great profile.
Evaluate and organize professional
Skills, experiences, and widgets.
Explain how to use LinkedIn to find
work, learn about organizations and
connect with people ! ! ! ! !! ! !
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33. Special Thanks
to...
Patty Hambler,
UBC Peer Programs...
and of course
Harry Potter
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34. Contact
Dylan Denault
dylan .denault@ubc.ca
John Horn
john.horn@ubc.ca
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