SoJust ProfDev: Using LinkedIn to Build Your Professional Network

So you have a LinkedIn account and you’ve set up your profile… Now what? Ever wondered how LinkedIn could help you improve your career prospects, and identify and connect with influential people?

Join Socializing for Justice for a ProfDev (professional development training) on “Using LinkedIn to Build Your Professional Network” with Alyson Weiss on Monday, April 4th from 6:00-8:30 PM at The NonProfit Center by South Station.

Fee: $15 advance/$30 door is split with the trainer.

Limited space - register ahead of time: www.sojust.org

Credit cards accepted online and at the door.

Newcomers always welcomed!

ProfDev: Using LinkedIn to Build Your Professional Network

Many people sign up on LinkedIn on the advice of their friends or family members, but never take full advantage of its tools and features. In this interactive workshop, we will discuss four steps to creating a strategy to actually USE LinkedIn, based on your personal career goals. You’ll learn how to make connections on LinkedIn with people in your current networks, research target connections, reach out to those connections effectively, and keep your new connections active and current. At the end of this ProfDev, you will leave with a personalized strategy for making LinkedIn work for you and with a formula for writing cold messages that actually work.

Please note that this workshop doesn’t focus on creating your profile. If time permits, we may spend the last few minutes discussing profile writing, but the majority of this ProfDev will be about how LinkedIn can work for you.

ABOUT OUR PRESENTER

Alyson Weiss is passionate about translating abstract concepts into concrete ideas. She facilitates workshops and meets with clients privately to help job seekers and career changers build their online presence and connect strategically with target contacts to meet their career goals. She is on the board of the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network Boston and works at Tufts University by day.

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Socializing for Justice - www.sojust.org

SoJust hosts events that draw progressives of all stripes who share common values but may work on different issues. We host social events that allow for the possibility of cross-issue connections and run a monthly ProfDev series, hosted by The NonProfit Center, which provides access to affordable professional development to increase our individual capacity for movement building.

With 2,900 members and 9 1/2 years of creating a diverse cross-issue community in Boston (over 200 events!), Socializing for Justice is the best place to find the great people, organizations and community you're looking for while putting the SOCIAL back in social justice.

YES, WE MEAN YOU. We've got members of all ages, races, genders, sexual orientations, levels of activism and professions. We hope you see someone like yourself and meet someone you otherwise wouldn't have.