Week 12

This week we worked with students for Market Your Assets Day. It was actually a little boring at least with what I was assigned to do. Because the students needed to make changes to their resumes it was not the time for them to scan. During the first part of class they would have been able to scan any way because there were problems with scanned items not showing up, but it was fixed eventually. Basically of the two students I did end up helping, I showed them my LinkedIn account and how they can upload different files to the site and pointed out other features on the site.

I would not have used LinkedIn if it were for this class and basically being required to. Of the two students, one said she had never heard of the site, but liked the idea of it. Because these students were able to see what I had done with my page on LinkedIn it hopefully gave them some ideas of what they might want to do with their own pages. I told them that their pages could be whatever they want to them to be, it’s discretionary.

Though I have not personally been contacted about any possible jobs via LinkedIn, it’s still a good idea to show what I can do from a professional standpoint. I like having an almost resume like page, but I am also able to actually attach some of my projects on the site. It can be physically seen what I have done and just not describing what I have done or just saying I know how to work the program.

Next week it sounds like we will be back on our rotation projects. We have only completed one project so far, but I guess it’s going ok so far. I guess it is good being in group of people working on the same thing, because then we can ask questions and help each other out.