How do you build a great Student profile and get a job on LinkedIn?

How do you choose a career vs job?

What’s the difference between my LinkedIn profile and my resume?

Is one of the most common questions I hear from students, parents and guardians - good question

If you start with a rock solid resume, your LinkedIn profile won’t take too much work. Watch the video below to understand the following differentiators to get the most out of your LinkedIn profile.

Your LinkedIn profile gives you room to elaborate. To tell your professional story. Go deeper with volunteer experiences to demonstrate skills, experience, and personality. To #DoWork - Add project samples, such as images, documents and videos of your work.

It allows your professional personality to come to life in a community of like minded professionals. Your profile allows hiring managers and recruiters to actively seek you out. Add your skills and experience, but more importantly show them your unique path and personality. Your profile summary should truly set you apart. 

Graduate Activation Program - Why?

Moving into the working world is a big change.

But tackling this challenge is well within your grasp. You got this!

This video and others like it that I will produce are broken into bite-sized sections, offering resources to help you enter the workforce with confidence!

Graduate Activation Program - How it works?

GAP provides resources to help progressive Universities and your key audiences make the most of LinkedIn. Coaching African Universities how to conducting Profile Reviews with Students; Using the LinkedIn Alumni Tool with Students, How to Run an Effective & Valuable LinkedIn Group's and other capabilities in a partnership framework.

To scale the reach of the LinkedIn Africa - Graduate Activation Program and to enable more students to start their career journey on a professional platform, let this serve as a reference point for the standard self service for proactive students, graduates, professionals and University careers services and alumni professionals to point their students to as free and accessible resources.

In the videos I provide overviews of what LinkedIn can do for you as students - learn, network, engage, research, teach, volunteer, apply and amplify your professional brand, services, skills, and experience other economic opportunities.

In this particular session I include my personal top tips for students, graduates and young professionals on :

1) Building an impactful Student Profile on LinkedIn

2) Profile Checklist: What must you have!

3) Using LinkedIn to find a job as a Student or internship

Other Video's On YouTube - Stewart #ItsTime2Shine Samkange

On my YouTube channel I provide regular videos, insights and resources to let students know the benefits of a great and active LinkedIn profile and presence, and to help them get started. You will find :

• Videos for students, graduates, young professionals
• Videos for University Career Services & Alumni professionals
• Videos for jobseekers

Scaled Services - We partner with Universities to help students get the jobs they want!

Across Africa I get to work with University Vice Chancellors, Career Services & Alumni Relationship Leaders to provide a systematic and consistent experience and program for both the University and the students and alumni. Increasingly, higher education is focused on helping students get good jobs after graduation, and stand out in a global economy. If you in Africa, in these leadership roles, and want to bolster student outcomes and provide faculty and staff development with insights only LinkedIn can provide - then let's talk!

Dear Students, Graduates ??

As much as I would love to, unfortunately I currently cannot help each and everyone of you individually, with your member profiles and jobseeker one on one chats/in-mails/tips/reviews - what I can do is encourage you to stay hungry .... stay hungry, for knowledge, access, network, self fulfilment, self improvement by self serving and ....

Investing in number one - YOU!

From watching the YouTube videos it is my intention that they will serve as a practical guides for kick-starting your career! Be sure to subscribe and share the content with a fellow students, and alumni.

#EachOneTeachOne #NetworkGap #PlusOnePledge #LinkedInLife #Africa #LinkedIn

YouTube Video

The 60 minute video premiers on my YouTube channel

Wednesday. 16th Sept 06:45 am Irish Time ????

https://www.youtu.be/ZbTSs8Fq7js

#ItsTime2Shine ??