PM Insights Foster City presents
Your LinkedIn Profile:
The Project Manager’s LinkedIn Toolset
Foster City
LinkedIn is a powerful tool for growing your personal brand. There are hundreds of thousands of project and program managers looking for the next great opportunity. Do you know how to differentiate yourself and take advantage of this valuable tool? LinkedIn is supposed to be easy, and project managers are smart people, but networking and social media are not skills for which PMI offers pdu’s.
Is LinkedIn an online resume? An expanded business card? Should you share personal information? Does it matter how many connections you have? Is anyone even looking? Once you have that great profile set up, will employers be lined up at the door to hire you?
This practical and informative workshop will demonstrate how to use the world’s largest business network to powerfully represent yourself both passively if someone you meet looks at your profile and actively to gain attention from recruiters and employers. You will see how LinkedIn can help you enhance your personal brand and promote your expertise as a project manager. And you will find out how to dominate searches and establish a powerful online identity. You will have an opportunity to evaluate profiles and generate your own list of personal goals for LinkedIn.
Key Takeaways
• Learn how to create an inviting profile that effectively promotes yourself as a project or program manager
• Find out how to choose proper keywords and place them effectively to show up in searches
• Learn how you can find and connect to companies and employers who may have project/program management opportunities
This session will be beneficial for both people who are relatively new to using LinkedIn and those who’ve had a profile for years, but want to amp up their visibility and use it more effectively. You will receive a free self-scoring assessment to evaluate your own LinkedIn profile.
About the Instructor:
SANDRA CLARK has over twenty-five years’ experience working for the University of California Extension to provide technical, leadership and project management training to Silicon Valley businesses. Her background spans over 100 education, non-profits, and global corporations including Cisco, Adobe, Abbott Labs, Google, IBM, and BAE.
Sandra worked with popular project management author and speaker, Kimberly Wiefling, to establish the first project management blog to market project management programs for UCSC Extension in Silicon Valley. It has had over 130,000 visitors from 204 countries and has well over 1,500 blog entries from project and program management experts from around the world.
Sandra currently provides LinkedIn training and coaching services to companies and individuals through her company, Silicon Valley Training Connect and has taught or coached well over 200 individuals in the past few years.
Meeting Leader: Karol Jurado
PDU Info: 1.5 - Category A
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6:00 PM - Sign In and Networking
6:30 PM - Featured Speaker
8:00 PM - Meeting Adjourn
Food: Complimentary snacks and non-alcoholic beverages
Online Registration
PMI Silicon Valley Members: $10
Non-Members: $20
Full-time Student: $5 (online only; contact Meeting Leader for the discount code. Please bring Student ID card to the event)
At-the-Door Registration
A limited number of registrations can be accepted at the door on a first-come, first-served basis. Once this limit has been reached, the event will be closed to additional attendees.
PMI Silicon Valley Members: $20
Non-Members: $30
(Only Check or Cash accepted; make checks payable to "PMI Silicon Valley")
Cancellation Policy
This event is a professional society meeting, held for the benefit of its members. The Plan Ahead registration fee paid is based on the registrant's ability to commit to attendance, ahead of time. The Plan Ahead registration fee will not be refunded for any reason, other than event cancellation, after normal business hours (5:00 PM, Pacific) on the registration deadline day. The PMI - Silicon Valley Chapter reserves the right to make last minute changes to program content and speakers, as circumstances dictate.
NOTE: This event is not sponsored by the Peninsula Jewish Community Center (PJCC)