Building Your Professional Profile
13th October 2017
Microsoft Innovation Center, Dronacharya College of Engineering, Gurgaon organized a one-day workshop on "Building Your Professional Profile". The MSP’s Nitin Manocha (18110), Neha Kumari (18104), Prakriti (18117), Kanika Saluja (18077), Mandeep Singh (18091) and Vertika Shukla (18181) conducted the workshop. 60 students of 3rd semester IT and CSE Department attended the workshop.
The workshop was a 2-hour session focusing on building a professional profile of students.
The MSP’s explained that building a professional profile was very important. Whether you are fresher or experience everyone must have professional profile as through this they get connected to many people and get many opportunities through these profiles.
Following are the topics that were covered by MSP’s in the workshop:
- LinkedIn: LinkedIn is a social networking site designed specifically for the business community. The site allows registered members to establish and document networks of people they know and trust professionally. The goal was to aware students about LinkedIn and its importance in professional world. The MSP’s also taught them how to make a LinkedIn account. After creating the accounts, all the students were asked to make their headline as creative as possible by mentioning their technical skills, internships etc. The top 3 headlines will later be posted in Microsoft Innovation Centre page.
- Twitter: Twitter is a free social networking micro blogging service that allows registered members to broadcast short posts called tweets. Twitter members can broadcast tweets and follow other user's tweets by using multiple platforms and devices. The goal was to aware the student about the professional-oriented importance of twitter and how one can use and take advantage of such platform.
- GitHub: GitHub is an open source web based repository .It is most popular among developers because of its wide variety of features. The goal was to encourage students to become active on this platform which can help them to learn and code for any project with the help of others and similarly helping others in their work to enhance their own skills.
It was a knowledgeable session as students learnt many professional platforms and importance of making their professional profile on these.