In Praxis, every participant (student) in the placement module has a talent profile instead of a stagnant resume. During placement, participants “apply” to jobs by creating value propositions, which are work projects demonstrating the value we can create for a business. So this post is geared towards current Praxis participants who are looking for a leg up on their profiles.
Every Wednesday, we meet on a live call and occasionally the advisors bring on a guest speaker. This week we had Keagan Henson, CEO of BriteBee.
Here are some tips he suggested on how to improve your talent profile.
- Your About Me video should be one minute or less, preferably 30 seconds.
- About Me video, put past irrelevant experiences behind you. If it’s not related to the role you’re applying to then don’t mention it.
- Update your blog regularly.
- Blog posts should be short because CEOs and hiring managers don’t have time to read through everything and they usually just skim.
- LinkedIn – post, comment, and like posts. Tailor your tagline to specific role you’re applying to. Basically treat LinkedIn like Facebook, except for business.
- 1Million Cups is a great networking organization. Networking works best in small scale conferences.
- Bottom line – solve a business’ problem