Are you enjoying an incredible summer conducting research, doing an independent project, interning for a great organization, or taking an intensive course?
Now is a great time to create a LinkedIn post about it.
Before the next semester gets underway with classes, conferences, campus jobs, and other competing academic and personal priorities, you might want to share some highlights about your professional summer work.
Suggestions for post:
- Introduce what you did with a brief, positive, enthusiastic, informal/personalized post (i.e. I just finished a 4 week cultural agility certificate program with an amazing team of facilitators, or I’m heading back to campus with 70 hours of camera trap footage thanks to x, y, and z, or My internship with EY is even better than I expected with an opportunity to produce x deliverable, learn y, and build a network…).
- Include deliverables, new skills or knowledge, achievements, and any continuing involvement with project/firm/organization.
- Be sure to check with your supervisor regarding any non-disclosure on work you did. If you can’t use specifics, ask them for help with language to talk generally about your deliverables.
- Use hyperlinks to your deliverables if applicable.
- Tag org/company/research partners.
- Tag colleagues.
- Include a few key thematic hashtags.
- Tag YSE.
- Include a good quality photograph of you at the organization or if you were in an interesting location, one that highlights the location (with you in it). Photo could include colleagues, with permission.
- Thank everyone in your network who made the opportunity possible.
