Social Media for the Professionals

Last week on our TRAIN class, we had a visitor come in and talk to us about developing our online presence professionally. She is Dakota Webber from ASU’s Career and Professional Development Services (CPDS). During her presentation, we were prompted to visit our LinkedIn accounts and reconfigure them a bit to fit our goals. One of the things we did was to follow and connect with people that we could see as our mentors. I was not able to find a specific person who does what I want to do in the future but I did find a few that are in very closely related fields. There was a question on my mind: I asked if we needed to put our entire work history on our profile since most positions that I've held do not pertain to the field in which I am interested. It is not needed but a fellow classmate did mention she was able to land an internship thanks to her mentioning on her LinkedIn account that she used to bartend. So even though these positions do not pertain to our field, they are life experiences that can help us develop skills to handle different situations.