Tips for life after college, Career Services gives lesson about LinkedIn

by Konstandina Martucci
edited by Brian Carey

Career Services hosted a LinkedIn workshop this past Thursday, November 7th  to help educate students on the importance of networking yourself for life after college.

Ann Goodrich-Bazan, Interim Director of Career Services, taught roughly 25 students how to properly use LinkedIn. Her opening statement was “who here has seen Facebook or has a Facebook of their own? Well, LinkedIn is a lot like Facebook because you want to customize your profile so that it becomes eye catching to future employers or when you start to apply to internships.”

Goodrich-Bazan’s biggest point was that the profile picture has to be professional. Goodrich Bazan said most students started to go into the topic of how students tend to use a selfie as a LinkedIn profile picture. Ann then said “Students should be using the most professional picture they have”, whether that is a professional head shot or having a peer take a picture of them partaking in an activity that has to do with the students major.”

(Photo: Konstandina Martucci)

Goodrich-Bazan stressed that LinkedIn is meant to get you a job and must be taken seriously.  She also discussed career exploration advice and support, and described how the Pierce Portfolio can be an asset to all FPU students.

Goodrich-Bazan was assisted by a graduate student who checked resumes, and if they had a Pierce Portfolio to look for internships.

“We do have plans on having more workshops just like this one because of the educational values it offers to students who may not know exactly how to get started with there life after college,” said Goodrich-Bazan.