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How To LinkedIn - Optimizing Your Profile and Beyond

Alison Rakoto
March 1, 2019 12:00 – 1:00 PM ET Virtual Free to attend
How To LinkedIn - Optimizing Your Profile and Beyond

About this session

There are over 500 million professionals with profiles on LinkedIn - how can you make your profile stand out to recruiters, and amongst your peers? What should you be doing to build your brand and grow your LinkedIn presence on this always changing platform? Join LinkedIn Strategist and Career Coach, Alison Rakoto for an hour of Q&A to find out!

You asked, she's answering:

  • What's the most important part of a LinkedIn Profile?
  • Do I have to have a picture?
  • How much information should I be sharing?
  • & More!



Meet the speaker

Alison Rakoto

Alison Rakoto

Alison is a career coach, mama, and yogini with a holistic view of work and life. She firmly believes that there is an opening for each of us to create a career we love; and that LinkedIn is a crucial and amazing tool that can make this happen with ease. Alison's dream is to transform the world of work for women around the world, she's been on LinkedIn since 2005 and has watched 100s of people transform their careers with a little LinkedIn finess. As a career coach and strategist she is here to support you on your journey, inviting you to connect on LinkedIn, subscribe to the Career Compass, her monthly newsletter, and ask questions when you need. Alison works remotely, splitting her time between Boulder, CO and Fort Dauphin, a coastal town in the southeast of Madagascar.

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