Women Who Code Mentorship Program 4.0- Week 5
Every end has a new beginning and that brings us to the last week and end of my mentorship program journey! 🥺💖
Can we skip to the good part? Not exactly since there was something good about each and every week and session, the whole program! 🌟
My amazing mentor Shradha Sehgal hosted a farewell session for me and my co-mentees, the agenda for this week being ‘Creating a Personal Brand’ so without further ado let’s get started!
Personal branding is a crucial skill in today’s fast paced world.
You need to stand apart from the crowd. Many recruiters and hiring managers are quite active on social platforms like LinkedIn and Twitter.
Hence the creation of a personal brand not only gives you recognition but you also are exposed to a larger audience.
You can use several social media platforms for the same, majorly LinkedIn and Twitter!
1️. LinkedIn⭐
LinkedIn can help you build a professional presence that showcases your work to a wider audience, especially recruiters and hiring managers.
Follow the below pointers to make the best out of LinkedIn: ✨
- Optimize your profile: Add a professional picture/headshot of yours followed by relevant keywords and headline for the role you are working in or want to pursue in the near future.
- Tell your story in Summary Section: Almost every recruiter uses LinkedIn recruiter while searching for potential candidates, keep all your work experiences and summary up to date.
- Choose skills strategically: Add only relevant skills, you can also give LinkedIn assessment tests for verification of those skills, apart from above you can get your skills endorsed too!
- Be Active: I highly recommend that you craft an ‘All Star’ LinkedIn profile. Stay active on the platform follow relevant people, company pages, share your small wins, achievements and your LinkedIn profile is no less than your ‘live resume’.
2️. Twitter⭐:
If you are looking to establish a personal brand, twitter is one of the platforms you cannot ignore! Many recruiters, tech leaders and organizations are highly active on twitter. You are constantly updated about ongoing events, hackathons, hiring drivers once you start following like-minded accounts.
- Update your profile: It is similar to what we discussed over LinkedIn. But here you don’t need to craft summary or skills section rather use your twitter bio to your advantage! Keep it small and catchy.
You can also pin your most relevant achievement/project/portfolio to your twitter profile.
2. Follow relevant people and pages: Tech twitter is home to supportive communities, senior engineers and aspiring developers connecting them altogether. You can also follow challenges like #100daysofcode or #100daysofdev to upskill yourself.
3. Engage: If you reach out, people are likely to engage with you. Share your work, the work of people you admire, they might take a look at your work. You can also make use of threads for boosting your twitter engagement. The right time is now, so go ahead and start tweeting!
🌟Bonus Tip🌟: Personal Portfolio
A personal portfolio is your resume in action and a key element in your search for a job as an engineer or developer. should depict your ambition and interest. It is a great opportunity to showcase your projects and skills.
You can code a website yourself, use GitHub or even the notion website pages to build your website. For further details, you may refer to the sources below:
⭐https://github.com/topics/academic-website
⭐How to create a portfolio (w3schools.com)
Congratulations on making it this far, now you are all set to build your personal brand🚀
Hence that brings us to the conclusion of this blog and my mentorship program journey. I am extremely thankful to Women Who Code Delhi and glad to be a part of such an uplifting community and program.
I hope you learnt something new from my experience as a mentee. In case you could not make it to the program, check out my blogs for the same
I’ve curated my experience from week 1 till the end here
In case you’d like to connect here’s my twitter and LinkedIn profile.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
Believe in yourself & you will be unstoppable!!
