01 August 2020

Rock your LinkedIn profile

I received a message from LinkedIn Premium that offers me free trial on LinkedIn Premium Career. Since it's free, why not.

Once I subscribed, it pops up a video on "Rock Your LinkedIn Profile" - which I believe it wants to help me get started and since I have time, I watched the video from the beginning till the end and my opinion, I think that is a great video for LinkedIn newbies as well as people who has been on LinkedIn since forever but they want to change the status quo of their LinkedIn profile.

Since it's a great video, I think I should share some of the tips from the video for you who google, "How to get started my LinkedIn profile".


1. Tell a little bit about you in About section - share a summary of your professional and a little bit of personal journey. Do it like you tell a story about yourself. If you don't know how to start, let's start with how would you introduce yourself during introduction session.

2. Make sure to always update your latest work experience and instead of sharing what you do cos everybody can do the same things that you do, share your contribution and what you achieved instead cos that what makes you different.

3. Change your Headline from default to something that you want to be known of. You can focus on what industry you are in, what do you do/your role and what/how you do make the difference. For me, I skip the industry part and focus more what do I do and still thinking about my unique skill that makes me special in what I do.

4. Don't forget to add in your Skills, it can be as basic as having skills in Microsoft Office and you can get your colleagues to endorsed it.

5. Get recommendation from colleagues, managers, senior leaders or your customers/clients to build your credibility. Instead of using the LinkedIn template to get the recommendation, customise the recommendation request so that you can get the other person to focus on the things that you want them to highlight. For example, how your contribution in a Project A help with its success.

6. If you do volunteer work, why don't you add this information in. I find this interesting because I always thought volunteer work is private matter, but, for you who have employment gap, this is something that you can share with the Hiring Manager how do you use your time during the gaps.

7. Don't update your profile all at once because you'll feel overwhelmed and sometimes you don't know where to start. So, why don't you start with one section and then work on another section on the next day or next week.


These are some that I learn from the video, and I think you'll learn more by watching it, so here you go the link to the video.



Till then.

01 January 2018

Saying Goodbye to 2017, Welcoming 2018

Out of 7 things that I listed out as things to achieve in 2017, I only managed to achieve 3 of them. My excuse on this simply because all my wishes cost so much money and I only spend more than I earn *sigh*

I ran my best nine photos and what appear are all the good things happened to me in 2017.

Career:
I took an exam and passed it. I went to the Austin to attend my company's largest event. I presented a technical demo on stage in front of more than hundred attendees. I met new colleagues from various countries. Finally, I graduated as a sales engineer 😎

Travel:
I went to 1 new country and 2 new cities. I re-visited 1 city that I have been when I was a kid.

Family:
I can feel that last year was a year where I focus more on my career to develop myself in my new role. I left Ruhul to travel for work more than I usually do. I did make up to him by bringing him outing as much as I can. I bought Thomas cake for his birthday. I brought him to Thomas town. I took him to holiday every quarter, except in quarter 2 cos I was away to US and when we are back it was already fasting month and Hari Raya.

Relationship:
I traveled to US with husband and it was okay. We did argue on stuff like where to go and when, what to eat and whether or not it Halal-cos I'm quite particular. But I guess all that make us more patience ? to withstand each other for the next 50 years 😑

Friendship:
My girlfriends came to my office area to treat me birthday lunch and I managed to organize 1 night sleepover with them. I wish I can do the same with my other group of girlfriends-well, that's on my 2018 goal 😊


Anyway,

For 2018, I had my goals written on my planner already.
Beside what was written on my planner, I also wish that hopefully our world become a safer place to live, so that my family and I can visit each and every city in the world.

Till then, wish everyone the happiest year ahead !



13 January 2016

What Whatsapp Web

I was working at my desk when my colleague, Yasmin called me and show me her desktop telling me my son's picture looks nice. The lighting, the vibrant colors, the angle and the shot, unfortunately, my son's pose spoils it. He seems like being forced.

I explained to her that, that is the only decent picture of him that we managed to captured on the grass because he kept moving to play with the leaves. Then I continue look at my laptop screen when I realized, "eh, how come my son's picture is on your desktop?"

Hahaha, she then told me about Whatsapp Web. I heard of it before but I never really bother. Now that I knew I can use whatsapp from my laptop, I think it's easier for me to reply messages. I don't have to keep checking my phone and I hate typing on a touch screen *missing blackberry*

Since I'm on a Whatsapp web, I think people can seen me online like 24/7 during working hours. Don't get me wrong eh. You know why now.

Here is Ruhul's picture on the grass.

My dear son.


Join me and open your whatsapp on web now, tehee -> https://web.whatsapp.com/

Till then, bye.