- Begin working on your Personal Brand Presentation.
- start simple and build from there
- you can always go back and make it "better"
- this Personal Brand Checklist might help you stay on track
- If you have not done so already, make a copy of this helpful document and start preparing for your future by:
- Creating your Resume
- Preparing a general Cover Letter
- Creating a list of your Network of Contacts:
- What kind of people do you have your network?
- The goal is establish quality relationships with others in your industry that you can potentially leverage, and create visibility for yourself.
Personal Brand Checklist:
Your presentation should include the following slides.
____ Title Slide
____ Identify Yourself
- name
- professional picture
____ Who Are You?
____ Who Do You Do?
- Special Classes
- Sports, Clubs, Other School Activities
- Work Experience
- Honors, Awards, Leadership
____ Who Do You Represent?
- Role Models
- Inspirational Quotes
When you are creating your presentation remember to think about the elements of design:
____ Keep it Simple
- use bullet point statements
- no complete sentences
- eliminate unimportant words
- consider using images instead of text
____ effective image use
- where possible, use high quality photographic images to deliver your message
____ 5 by 5 Rule
- no more than 5 words per line
- no more than 5 lines per slide
____ make it look good
- simple fonts
____ balance “white-space”
- use eye-pleasing, contrasting color
____ consider text emphasis
- bold
- italics
- underline
- color
- size
- font style
____ be consistent
- layout and color scheme
- Complete your Twitter profile following the Twitter Account Checklist
____ Professional Picture
____ Appropriate Bio
____ Engaging Banner Image
Follow:
____ follow @BuckChivas2
____ follow everyone who follows @BuckChivas2
____ Follow people or companies related to your social media campaign
Create:
____ favorite, retweet, and reply to each other to improve your digital footprints
____ post something about your social media campaign, using your hashtag
____ post something positive
____ promote a school event
____ @ mention anyone related to your tweet
____ favorite and retweet others that you follow
Add value online:
____ retweet with a value add comment
____ tweet links to relevant articles, videos, or websites
____ use pictures to enhance your message
____ create interactive polls
LinkedIn Profile
- Create a LinkedIn Account
- Complete the basic information
- Upload a professional picture
- Update your public profile settings to create a custom URL for your profile
- Create a link to your LinkedIn profile from your Weebly website
- Read the article about how to write the perfect LinkedIn summary
- Write your LinkedIn summary
Showcase Website / Digital Portfolio
Log into your Weebly account
Log into your Weebly account
Add pages for Home, About, Contact, Portfolio
Add content to the Home page
- Make your name stand out
- Add a button to link to your About page
- Include your personal statement
- Consider creating a welcome video for this page
- School
- Extracurricular Activities
- Volunteering
- Skills & Languages
- What programs and/or applications would you say you are proficient at?
- What computer skills do you have to offer at this point in your career?
- Soft skills developed
- Include information on soft skills you developed thus far such as communication, time management, collaboration, etc. Check out a list of soft skills HERE.
- Honors & Awards
- Add pictures that relate to the different activities
- Consider adding an About Me Video
- Use images as links to your professional social media accounts
- Consider creating a video that explains your brand name
- Performance videos
- plays, sports, concerts, speeches, service projects, etc...
- Evidence of your writing
- School projects of which you are proud
- Add your professional photo to all of your accounts
- Gmail, Twitter, LinkedIn, Weebly, Blogger, YouTube
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