{"id":910,"date":"2015-03-12T11:04:42","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T11:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tamaramanton.wordpress.com\/?p=94"},"modified":"2015-03-12T11:04:42","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T11:04:42","slug":"topic-3-reflection-on-creating-an-authentic-professional-profile-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/uosm2008-2015\/2015\/03\/12\/topic-3-reflection-on-creating-an-authentic-professional-profile-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Topic 3: Reflection on Creating an Authentic Professional Profile"},"content":{"rendered":"

For me, the key leaning point from this topic\u00a0was the need to ensure that your professional profile showcases your personality, not just your skills. This was a point emphasised by Charles Hardy (the speaker on Aliyu\u2019s video<\/a>). I created my LinkedIn profile a few weeks ago, and looking at it now I realise that it really doesn\u2019t show who I am as a person. To be honest, I should have picked up on this earlier \u2013 I recently went on an assessment day where they\u00a0stressed that what the company was looking for was someone with a personality that fitted their culture. I\u2019ve been thinking about recording a video for my LinkedIn account, which would certainly help add some personality – as Francesca was one of those who picked up on this theme I asked her<\/a><\/strong> if she would consider creating a video for her LinkedIn profile.<\/p>\n

Another eureka moment occurred when looking at Tatiana\u2019s blog<\/a>, which mentioned that Huang et al. recommended creating an \u201corganised visualisation of our person\u201d. While this is definitely something I will try to do, it was actually the word \u2018visual\u2019 which triggered another line of thought \u2013 re: the need to maintain a consistent visual image (brand) across the different platforms we use.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m continually surprised how varied the views of our\u00a0little blogging community are \u2013 one area of contention is the tendency to endow governments and companies with impenetrable motivations and morality; I find this a view a little strange as these organisations are run by people, not machines. Hence,\u00a0I asked Ben<\/a><\/strong> if he felt that hiding our social lives would\u00a0make us\u00a0look too bland. It would be interesting to create a quiz around this theme (if the subject of the next topics allow).<\/p>\n

The results from my blog\u2019s questionnaire are below, I note that over half of the respondents have yet to set up a LinkedIn profile. I wonder if they think that the act of simply creating an account in the dying days of this course is enough to establish a professional profile.<\/p>\n

\"Poll<\/a><\/p>\n

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For me, the key leaning point from this topic was the need to ensure that your professional profile showcases your personality, not just your skills. This was a point emphasised by Charles Hardy (the speaker on Aliyu’s video). I created my LinkedIn profile a few weeks ago, and looking at it now I realise that it […]\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97373,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1031705],"tags":[264216],"class_list":["post-910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-topic-3-2015","tag-uosm2008","column","threecol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/uosm2008-2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/uosm2008-2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/uosm2008-2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/uosm2008-2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/uosm2008-2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/uosm2008-2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":911,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/uosm2008-2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions\/911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/uosm2008-2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/uosm2008-2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/uosm2008-2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}