Upload to portal or send to my school email address

if easier, send proposal to my email address or upload to the portal.

You can even send a collection of PowerPoint slides with the information contained in your proposals.

Call to Action Day

Anyone participating in call to action day?

How can you leverage your charity and volunteer work to help with a full time job search?

For contacts? To build your LinkedIn profile?

Self evaluation

Ask yourself what do you want to accomplish in your school career.

What classes, internships or charity experiences do you need to accomplish those goals? Or if you are graduating, reflect on the best experiences you have had.

Feel free to only respond to my email address

mstreicher@ndnu.edu

or or blog on it

For the last week

please upload your proposal presentation to the portal and here to the blog by Wednesday, October 12.

The proposal can either be a filmed clip or you can send a PowerPoint with slides of your proposal with links or graphics as you see fit.

Aim for 8-10 minutes

 

 

Final Drafts of Resumes and Cover Letters

Please submit them today.

 

Think how you can tailor your resume for a particular job. Play with the format.

 

Be sure to avoid repetition and proof read.

Please keep replying to blogs

Please give feedback on anything posted by a classmate.

Due dates

please complete the PowerPoint or the filming of your proposal by next week, our last week of the term.

You can upload them to the portal and the blog.

The last item is a self evaluation stating your goals this term and what you want work on next term or after graduation. If they are personal, just email them directly to me.

 

As you work this week

When you are thinking how to present the proposals, make sure to set a script and time it to 8-10 minutes.

Use specifics and clearly articulate your goals.

 

 

Your network

Networking is about building relationships and LinkedIn can help. Networking is about building relationships, and so connecting to someone on LinkedIn is not networking. LinkedIn can be however, a very useful tool to help you with building and maintaining your network.

Your network should include anyone with whom you feel comfortable talking. It can be your lab mates, classmates, boss, family, people you met at conferences, people you work with when you volunteer and so on. Please remember that you are connecting to human beings, so if you want to build or renew a relationship, don’t send the generic invite, which will happen if you just click on the “connect” button (or if you use the app). Personalize the message! This means that you will first need to go to the person’s profile and only then click “connect.”

1. Add contacts. This feature gives LinkedIn temporary access to your email contacts and will indicate which your contacts are on LinkedIn.
2. Find alumni. You can locate people you went to school with (undergrad or grad school), as well as filter them based on where they live, what they do and where they work. That can also be very useful when you are looking for a job and want to find alumni who work in companies of interest or in a function you would like to learn more about.

Part of expanding your network is connecting with people you don’t know. Using the advanced people search can help you not only find people whom you would like to have informational interviews with but also identify companies that you might not be aware of. You can search using keywords and a variety of different criteria.

When you find a person with whom you would like to connect, go to their profile and then click the connect button, as this will allow you to customize the message.

If you want LinkedIn to be a useful tool, your connecting policy should be driven by your desire to 1) connect with people you would feel comfortable asking a favor from, and 2) connect with people you can vouch for when they ask you for a favor. Therefore, you should really only connect with people you have had at least a brief conversation with.

LinkedIn also allows you to be more intentional with your network maintenance. If you go to someone’s profile, under “Relationships” you can add a reminder, for example, to contact Jane in one month and tell her how you followed the advice she gave you. You can also see a quick summary of any recent messages exchanged and when you connected.

When it comes to the job ad itself, a benefit of LinkedIn is that you can immediately see how you are connected to either the job poster or to the company. This is where only connecting with people you know comes in handy. You should have no hesitations in contacting them to ask if they are familiar with the position or know the hiring manager so you can personally address your cover letter and the like. Further, you can also see how many applicants the position already had. Granted, the number is based on those who applied through the LinkedIn ad, but it can still allow you to assess the competition and might even help you with negotiating an offer.

Another useful feature is using the saved job searches (either on the desktop version or the app). You can save up to 10 searches, and they can be for a specific company, title or geographical area.

Additionally, by following companies on LinkedIn you can learn about all their recent developments, what they care about and even recognize their hiring pace/trends. That can be a great resource when you are preparing for the interview. And the nice part is that LinkedIn will start suggesting companies for you to follow, which you might have not known or considered.

 

LinkedIn

Do you all have profiles? If not, why? If yes, how can we use it thoughtfully?