Week 2: Professional Digital Presence
- Jul 19, 2017
- 2 min read
For this activity, I updated and revised my LinkedIn Profile according to the LinkedIn Profile Checklist. After then, I analyzed the strengths and weaknesses of my updated LinkedIn profile.
LinkedIn profile before making updates and revisions
LinkedIn Profile Checklist
- I created and updated my Facebook profile, but I didn't embed this link in LinkedIn because I think it is not helpful for my career yet. I will continuously upload more posts.
I updated my LinkedIn profile according to the LinkedIn Profile Checklist that includes photo and background image, headline, location, industry, contact, summary, industry projects, experience, certificates, education, skills, customized URL, and endorsements. For the headline, I updated my job title as a multimedia producer, interactive designer, content strategist, and creative storyteller. These four titles are the keywords that best represent my personal brand, skills, and my careers that I am seeking. For a summary, I added three paragraphs to explain my mission, experiences, passion, and areas of expertise. My mission shows why I want to work for multimedia content. Also, my experiences show that I am a valuable person for my passionate works and my areas of expertise show my skills what I can do and how they can be used for my career. All of them aligns well with my job titles. For experiences, I updated descriptions for each experience that show my skills well with some phrases such as “developed content strategies”, “created digital content”, “led a media team”, and “developed social media strategies”.
I tried to reduce gaps between my brand and my skills, but I found that there are some weaknesses in my LinkedIn profile as a media professional. At first, I don’t have many professional experiences related to my job titles and skills. If I get a job after graduation, I will update my current position and it will make me more professional person. Also, I put photography skill in the areas of expertise, but I don’t have Instagram or other social media accounts to show my photography skills. For this, I will make an Instagram account later to show my passion and work more. In addition, I would need to get recommendations to complete my profile more professionally.
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