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Senior Project: Week 8

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Welcome to week 8! In week 6, I discussed my Professional Networking Strategy and Job Search / Refinement Plans. This week, I plan on discussing my progress and current state in terms of what I discussed in week 6. What is Your Progress From Week 6? So my main focus for my week 6 job and career goals was to update and look more into my LinkedIn profile. Just a few days ago I took the time to go through and add a little bit more information as well as do a few other things. You can Click Here to view my profile. The main things I did with my account was to change my pictures. Before I had my old default Google account picture which was a really old photo of me. I found a fairly recent, more professional looking photo and swapped it out. Before I also did not have a background image for the banner part. This didn't look very professional so I added a photo I took when I was in California with my family for the first time. I thought it would add a more personalized touch to

Senior Project: Week 6

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Welcome to week 6 after a short break last week! This week, we will be discussing job searching, stategies, and my near-future plans. But first, if you haven't checked out the website in a while, a lot has changed. If you are viewing on mobile, things might be a little broken at the moment. The way I am sharing files is messing with mobile styling and I am in the process of troubleshooting.  If you have been to the website recently, you may or may not have noticed a minor but awesome change. I am now running the site on HTTPS! I also switched blogger over to HTTPS as well to make things more uniform. Anyways, lets get into the post... What is Your Professional Networking Strategy? My main strategy is to try to get to know more people, but mainly just be great friends with my colleagues, so that I have really strong connections. I am not too concerned with having as many connections and networking as possible, but rather, having meaningful connections. With