The Early Career Playbook: LinkedIn Edition, with Jazmin Garcia

Jazmin Garcia, an alumna of the AVID program and LinkedIn account director, discusses the importance of building a strong LinkedIn profile for early career professionals. She share key insights including maximizing all profile sections, using professional photos, and leveraging recommendations and endorsements. Jazmin emphasizes the value of networking, highlighting her own career trajectory from politics to nonprofit to corporate roles. She advises using LinkedIn groups, following companies, and connecting with professionals to enhance career opportunities. The episode concludes with practical tips for creating or revising LinkedIn profiles and the importance of showcasing AVID alumni status. To learn more, visit AVID.org.

Transcript

Jazmin Garcia  0:00 
And I want you to think about LinkedIn. It's a professional networking site. It's not social media. This is an opportunity again for you to be able to put your best foot forward and showcase who you are in the professional world. People forget, in this digital age that we were always meant to have connection. If here you have a platform that allows you to do that.

Dr. Aliber Lozano  0:24 
Welcome to avidly adulting, the podcast where we tackle the wild ride of transitioning into your first career and all of the life lessons in between and beyond when life and career merge into adulting. I'm your host, Dr ala bulazano, vice president here at avid center. Let me ask you, what is your brand? Your Brand carries over from your training, and for many of us who are first generation professionals and in new careers, it begins the first day on the job, possibly sooner part of your branding includes your digital footprint. Yes, that includes your social platform engagement. That's the sooner part. Yeah, I can see some of you cringing. We are here to start or revise your professional digital footprint to avoid that cringe factor. Our topic today is the early career playbook LinkedIn edition to help us explore this topic. I'm joined by Jasmine Garcia, an avid alumni and an account director for LinkedIn nonprofits. Welcome Jasmine.

Jazmin Garcia  1:36 
Thank you for having me.

Dr. Aliber Lozano  1:37 
Oh, thank you for being here and for sharing your knowledge with other alumni and with other individuals who are learning to start or revise their digital footprint, specifically in LinkedIn. But let's learn a little bit more about yourself. Tell us about yourself and your avid journey,

Jazmin Garcia  1:55 
of course. So I grew up in San Diego, Tijuana border, and I shortly after where I actually was in the AVID program was in the mekula San Jacinto area. Not sure if a lot of people know it, so I like to be very specific about the region, but I earned my political science degree at a liberal arts university in San Diego. So I moved back to San Diego, and I was taught by former public servants. Think of anything across any of the administration departments at the local level, right? Or even folks you know, former CIA analysts. And I'd like to think that that influenced my civic engagement, or my interest in civic engagement, my monitor in college and thereafter, was always be the change you want to see in the world. And so I pursued a career in politics. That's what I wanted to do. I'm like, I want to be on the hill, be in Washington, DC. And so while I was in college, I served for my local member of Congress, and I ultimately went to Washington, DC, on a prestigious fellowship with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute. After four years of working on Capitol Hill, working in advocacy for the census, naturalization and voting rights, I even had the opportunity to develop over 200 Latinx professionals for a nationally recognized program that experience taught me there are multiple ways really to make an impact, right again, being the change you want to see in the world. And so after four years in DC, I then went and moved to Chicago, where I am now, and I was a great grant maker for a local foundation. This was temporary. Again, I was trying to figure out, where's my passion, what do I want to do, and what my passion could lead me to, COVID. Then happens, and then, you know, 2020, it's kind of a blur. But really, COVID For me, propelled my career in a way that I never thought possible. I became the leading economic development professional helping Latinx businesses sustain or keep their businesses during COVID. I regularly appeared on television from Univision, sharing resources to the masses. Throughout my professional career, technology was always advancing at a rate that any industry or field could keep up they really just couldn't. And so when you think about politics and nonprofit, you're like, Okay, well, really, what is the connect there? At this point, I had eight years of nonprofit experience. I knew one my next move was going to be a higher salary to accomplish my dreams of building generational wealth. Because, like many of you that I'm sure are listening, right, we're first generation and becoming an investor and traveling and so two, I also wanted to be able to still work in social impact. So I had to find that intersection right. As soon as I moved to Chicago, I was on LinkedIn, and I sent an in mail to a. Who is now my colleague, a person who was leading our, what we call employee resource groups, and so he was a leader. I shared with him. I just want to know what it's like to be a Latino at LinkedIn. Could we have coffee? And he said, Yes, he had me over at the Chicago offices, and really, the rest is history. Something important to note though, it wasn't until two years after that coffee that I ended up at LinkedIn, and so that something to take away from that is that I really connected with individuals, even through COVID, to stay in touch with them, sending a short message. And so by the time they were ready to make a hire and ready to connect with me. Everything else was seamless.

Dr. Aliber Lozano  5:44 
That's a story of going from California to DC to Illinois, and the trajectory of that journey and the connections you made. How did Avid or your skill set that you learned in AVID help you make those transitions and those connections and networking, what can you connect with Avid to the skills that were necessary for you to be where you are today?

Jazmin Garcia  6:09 
Yeah, so when it comes to the impact of avid, I think at its core, avid helped me learn how to learn and maintain a growth mindset. More specifically, let's talk about skills, right? I think that's actually a really hot topic right now, right. Upskilling, what skills are going to help the workforce of the future, right? And so when you think about concrete skills that avid helped me grow, we think critical thinking, problem solving, collaboration, time management, goal setting, self advocacy, growth mindset, public speaking and presentation. I mean, you name it, I can honestly go on in terms of the list of the skills that avid helped me hone in to be successful. Fast forward for my time at avid to my career now for two and a half years, my role at LinkedIn, and the core of it, was to provide solutions. I was bringing new partners to LinkedIn, right? They had business challenges. They were coming to me for answers. Case in point, profit solving. That right? Nonprofit leaders you know, would connect with me. I would reach out to them. It was all the same story, and I just had to find a solution for them. And more often than not, it was LinkedIn solutions that was able to help them right, then continuing right, considering upskilling, which upskilling, I want to make sure everyone knows right, we're meeting the demand for a new skill set in where we are at right now. And so there's something in addition to you learn all the skills, because everyone can learn a new job, right, a new skill set that will help them be successful in the role they want to be. And I mean, look at me in terms of the career that I kind of shared along with you. How do you go? People ask me this all the time, which is why I'm bringing it up. How do you go from politics to then working in nonprofit advocacy, developing the next generation of Latino leaders to them working in sales at a corporate organization? Right? And it was all because my skills were transitional. I can use them because I honed them in either at the start of avid and continue to hone them in through throughout my career, right? And so what I wanted to highlight from that point was something else that's important is self advocacy, right? You can be number one at your job. You can again learn a new task, a new anything for the current role that you are in. But it is also important to advocate for yourself and brand yourself and market yourself. I was always encouraged through avid to take charge of my own career, if you think about it, right, charge of my own learning. If I need help, I need to ask. And I've taken that throughout every single role, and it's actually made me more successful from compared to my counterparts, because I always ask for help whenever I needed it. I was literally that person always raising my hand, I know was probably for some like, Hey, why is she asking that? It's redundant. But no, I was literally encouraged now to do that, and again, it helped me be successful. Now, right? I have applied the skill that I've learned throughout to be successful across a variety of industries, and not particularly in corporate,

Dr. Aliber Lozano  9:25 
leading with inquiry, something else that you learn in AVID and you're using it in your profession today as you're helping the next generation of leaders which you mentioned. Let's get into more specific today's topic, which is creating a professional digital footprint in LinkedIn. Some of us may may need this to revise our LinkedIn. I may have to check my LinkedIn after this meeting, and some of us will need it to start our LinkedIn and create that brand that you have into this point journeyed into by leading within. Curry, being a civic service and making sure their social impact. So let's start what are the essential elements of a strong LinkedIn profile for someone who's just starting in their career?

Jazmin Garcia  10:14 
Yeah, you know Oliver, I think first and foremost, when people create a profile, they think creating a profile is enough. And what I mean by that is you literally enter your email address. You have your name. It's tied to an email you get email messages, you put maybe one work experience or internship, whatever it may be, right? And you're done. But really, I think, because you know we don't know, we don't know what we don't know. So what I would say first and foremost is maximizing every single section and elements the profile has to offer. I think what people also forget right now is, in this digital age, you have the opportunity to control what your digital footprint looks like online, right? What does my professional presence look like? I can tell you right now, as soon as LinkedIn started, I wanted to make sure that whenever someone Googled me, LinkedIn was the first option there. And so how do you make sure you're the first option, right? You have the opportunity to have a headline, you have the opportunity to have a summary any of your featured content, right? For me, just as examples, right? I was including Univision interviews that I was doing. I also had an entire series on YouTube, again, helping businesses connect to different resources, articles I've been published in, interviews I've done right? Just some examples there, because I think features is always where people kind of get stuck on your experiences, right, time and time again, particularly for individuals that are emerging in their careers, I see that there is a hesitancy in terms of adding an experience, because, oh, I didn't get paid, or it was an internship, or at the end of the day, it's experience you again were able to hone in on that skill set because of that experience. And so I recommend anything that you can think of that would be helpful for whatever your next step is. I mean, right now you're an emerging professional, right so there might not be too much to add into there, but anything that included you being president of that association, even a marketing coordinator for that association, whatever it may be. You took a role in that organization ASB, I think was a popular one too. That's just kind of whatever, wherever you're in, alright, add that on there. All of that is experience, right? If you were helping your teacher on any specific project, that is experience projects, that leads me to my other section, that would probably be a section, I think it's under certifications and projects that you can add on there, right when I was in college, to your point, I mean, I I had like, three different part time jobs. I was taking a full course load. I was doing multiple things, and at that time, I didn't think that the jobs that I was taking, because I worked at a bookstore, I worked at a on a concession stand in a baseball field, right? That that's not experienced. And I'm putting in quotation marks because people say that that's not experienced for that professional job that you want, but it is. And so what I did, too, is add any study abroad experience when you're in college as well, right? Or when you're in school, whatever it may be, you can add it on there. Finally, that leads me into certifications and credentials, which please, please to make sure to identify yourself, that you in some way, shape or form, took advantage of avid. Add it on there. You can add it in. There's a little summary section under your education, if you had avid there or again, certifications and credentials. Avid is an incredible program that, again, helped me be successful in my role. And so make sure to add it on there. One of the critical one additional critical feature in terms of your LinkedIn profile is the recommendation section, particularly right now, as you're an emerging professional in your career, thinking about teachers, principals, coaches, even anyone you can think of, any leader at any organization, your colleagues, when you think about recommendations to as you're getting your next you know gig, next step, anything that it could be, sometimes they're asked for as referrals as well. I talked earlier about you having control of your digital footprint online. This is an opportunity to do that. When you are interviewing and there's 100 resumes on the table of the recruiter, or when you're applying to school, they're going to look up LinkedIn and imagine if they could actually see that digital representation of every single person that could recommend you for any specific skill set or anything that you have done. Case in point, recommendations.

Dr. Aliber Lozano  14:43 
Nice and you've given us some really good five components of looking at your your LinkedIn profile again or starting one. But I'm going to talk with the most obvious one. What should we consider when we're thinking about our. Profile photos or cover photos to look as professional yet approachable. So talk to me about that picture that's part of our brand.

Jazmin Garcia  15:08 
I love this question for a variety of different reasons, because I'm sure many of you that are listening in have Instagram, Facebook, all the social medias, right? And you have a profile picture there, profile photo. And so when I want you to think about LinkedIn, it's a professional networking site. It's not social media. This is an opportunity again, for you to be able to put your best foot forward and showcase who you are in the professional world. First and foremost, it's definitely adding a picture. There's so many people that do not add a picture, and if you think about it, you don't want to talk to some random bot online, right? You want to make sure it's a real person. So first and foremost, it's just adding a picture and making sure it's a clear representation of who you are. It is recommended that you know the basics. You have good lighting. You're able to see your entire face, probably not a picture where you have sunglasses on, right? You want to make sure it shows all of you. Make sure you keep it just kind of like on top of where your shoulders are to your face, because you want to just showcase your face to make sure. Again, who are you talking to? Think about ID pictures or any kind of identification in that way. That's what LinkedIn and the professional site is and so again, good lighting, what are? Again, you should have a picture, and it should be have good lighting, and it should showcase who you are, accurate representation of your face, really, and you'll be good to go. And again, it's a professional representation online of yourself.

Dr. Aliber Lozano  16:42 
Now, Jasmine, we don't need fancy equipment, right to take this picture with these critical skills and criteria that you've mentioned,

Jazmin Garcia  16:50 
not at all you can honestly take it on your iPhone. It's super easy if you have an Android. It's the same thing. You're able to upload an image just like you would in any other site, if you want to too. I mean, take a picture of a picture, just as long as it's clear, whatever you are comfortable with that actually shows a representation of your face and who you are. Shoulders up, you will be good to go. When it comes to backgrounds. Of course, we want to avoid noise, right? Maybe not you laying on the beach, maybe a white background would suffice, blue background, whatever it may be, just a solid background, but you really don't need any fancy equipment. I mean, we all know you can edit filters. I think LinkedIn itself has an opportunity where you can edit the filter too. If you want a picture that's black and white, maybe that's better and it showcases more of the features, whatever it may be you have the opportunity to edit on the LinkedIn platform itself as

Dr. Aliber Lozano  17:44 
well. Great. Those are really good tips, especially about the background and avoiding the noise in the background so that you really shine. We're going to talk more about some of the other LinkedIn resources that LinkedIn has for us to create these profiles that are more active, all right, so we've gotten a profile, and you know, you you also talked earlier about avoiding bots and making sure you're not falling into that trap. So let's talk about, how can young professionals start to build meaningful connections without feeling awkward or pushy, because I don't know Jasmine Garcia, but she's an avid alumni, and she's in She has experience, so I want to reach out to her from Texas to where she currently lives, in Chicago, so without feeling awkward and pushy, what are some what are some of your advice that I reach out to you? I

Jazmin Garcia  18:34 
think that with well, one, if you have a LinkedIn profile, you have entered an unofficial contract that says you want to network and connect with people. That's at its core what a professional networking site is, that's first and foremost, take away any kind of the AI right to make sure that you reach out to someone I shared earlier, right? I reached this person. Didn't even have to answer me, but from the looks of his profile, his leadership role, that, again, is a volunteer role at LinkedIn, he was telling me he is open to that conversation. So know that many users on the platform are open to conversation. Now, when it comes to reaching out. Also think about the dozens of ads, the dozens of emails, the dozens of text messages that you get every single day when you go on LinkedIn and you get a message and someone reaches out to you, you just want to make sure it's just direct as possible, right? I am part of tons of alumni associations, just a variety of different associations, period, volunteer organizations. What have you. If I see someone that has that same background as me and wants to reach out because we went through the same experience, I'm more likely to respond to them and help them out again, first gen Latino, part of avid. It part of CH, ci, whatever it may be, right? And so make sure to showcase that in your in mail, through LinkedIn, right. One, take away the shame from sending a message again, this is an unofficial contract to network with each other. That's the whole point. Two, take advantage of the fact that you are more than likely part of the same Alumni Association, so make sure to share that on the platform. Again, university, Avid, any other type of associations. And then finally, be very direct with your ask. I believe it's like 60% response rate when you include dates and times to the direct outreach. So if you tell someone, hey, again, I'm an avid alumnus. I'm very interested in the work that you're doing now, because I potentially want a career there. Do you have time on Friday afternoon at 2pm to connect? Include your time zone? Probably people are in a different state than you are. Maybe a different state that they have on LinkedIn. You never know, right? And there you go. All done, I can guarantee you, out of the 10 emails and mails that you send, nine of them are going to respond, whether it's you know, ASAP or later down the line, because we're not always on LinkedIn, right? A lot of people are, I will tell you, the activity is pretty high, but just know that that will be really, really hopeful for you.

Dr. Aliber Lozano  21:21 
That's great. We talked about the cringe factor earlier, and you mentioned the ick factor. So yeah, make sure that you're reaching out with authenticity and looking up what what grounds you or what connects you, and leading with that and leading with inquiry, as you said, to get the best advice, we're going to talk more about how you can join the LinkedIn alumni, avid Alumni Association, but also join our network in just a few but before we go to that part, help us understand much like you did and you were you persevered and you were patient. But how can LinkedIn profile help a first year professional advance in their current role or discover new opportunities.

Jazmin Garcia  22:05 
I think a variety of ways. When you think about your LinkedIn profile and how you connect with individuals, I'll share a little bit about how I did it. I mentioned to you, right I was very much influenced by public servants during my college career. And so that led me into a career in politics, working on Capitol Hill, advocacy, what have you. And so once I was in that career through again a variety of different ways, I showcase that on LinkedIn, right, hey, I got a fellowship at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute. That, in and of its health, has just under 10,000 alumni, I believe, right. So I wanted to make sure to showcase that many of them who are still in Washington DC. Included that in my profile. I then made sure to connect with those alumni on LinkedIn, reach out to them. I just got into the fellowship. Do you have any recommendations for me to be successful in this fellowship right at the same time? I knew because, again, technology was advancing much faster than any of us you know can regulate it, really, if you think about it, that there were going to be different jobs than what I can envision myself to be in from the time when I graduated school, I've always been a curious professional. I always knew things were going to change, and so I kept that in mind. So when you talk about what is on the platform already and the experience that you already have, you showcase the experience you have. You connect with individuals that are doing like minded things, but then also you have your interest on the side, right? I keep mentioning right? I worked in government, non profit, then in corporate overarching was technology here and there. I mean, technology influences everything that we do. It makes sense that I ultimately ended up at a tech Corporation, because in some ways, somehow, that was always an interest of mine, and I made sure to showcase that on LinkedIn. In my about me, you could have found back in the day, right? I got accepted into that fellowship. I'm interested in this specific policy areas. I think at the time, I wanted to work at the White House. I let that know, right? But then I would put like topics of interest trying to network and engage right? People that work at Google, people that work at LinkedIn, people, if you work at any type of tech policy, whatever it may be, right, those three core areas are going to help you truly maximize the platform of where you currently are right now and where you want to be in the future, nice,

Dr. Aliber Lozano  24:41 
and that's what we're doing today. If you're not in actual the field of technology, how do you leverage technology for teaching, learning, amplifying your brand, so that you are and represent yourself in this digital space and digital footprint? More? Accurately, so that people can reach out to you and you can reach out with to them, without that cringe or ick factor. You all you mentioned way earlier about recommendations and endorsements, so I know we covered that a little bit, but now the next step is, what's the impact of being active in LinkedIn groups or following specific companies or thought leaders in one's career.

Jazmin Garcia  25:23 
I think it depends on your objective, right? There's a variety of different ways this can be helpful for you. If you think about there's over 1 billion members, I think 1.5 right now, billion members on the platform globally. This is the only platform with a digital representation of the workforce at that level. And so really, sky's the limit for you, right? That means that when you go on LinkedIn, you can find any type of group again, even right now I mentioned to you, right? I have eight years experience of nonprofits. I also worked on Capitol Hill. I'm part of alumni associations. I'm part of all those groups, and they're all listed. When you go on to your dashboard, you'll see them on the left hand side. What groups are you part of? Right more often than not, we're talking about about how LinkedIn is a professional networking site. Maybe someone in that group has that connection with someone in either a role that you potentially want to be in. Maybe you need a speaker for any of the speaker series. We have a lot of people, I think, in that part of the generation that's graduating right now. You have your YouTube channels, you have your tiktoks, you have podcasts, whatever it may be, right? Any way that you can network with someone groups kind of brings that to life, right? And then you're also connecting with individuals that either have similar interests in you, or, again, can connect you to someone who has somewhere or is connected to something that you want to be part of. There's just a variety of different ways, right? Even just just connections and friendship. I think people forget in this digital age that we were always meant to have connection, and here you have a platform that allows you to do that in a variety of different levels, not just professional, but I think obviously at the core it is professional. I jumped around from industries, and I was able to do that because all throughout, I stayed in touch on LinkedIn with every single person that was there. And also, I will note, because I think this also happens in the current generation, that either graduated or graduated just in the last five years, is that there's this, aside from the ick and the UK and the whatever it may be of like connecting with C suite level professionals, you know that VP CEO, take that away. They're also on LinkedIn. They're also humans. They also want to be a mentor. Connect with them, send them an Inma message, right? I do that day in and day out. I kid you not. I send an in my message to whoever I'm interested in connecting with because, again, I at the core, understand that they've signed that unofficial contract of, hey, I want to connect with someone, and I'll go ahead and add that on there, that you can actually change your settings if you don't want people to email you. And I don't know many people who have that on, but I have seen some here and there that do have it. So know if someone doesn't want to connect you, you'll know that right up front. But more often than not, they're not, they're going to respond to

Dr. Aliber Lozano  28:16 
you. So Right? So it's it's finding the right fit of who you want to connect a network when you're reaching out to follow or sending messages that you advise in your career and your best interest, right? Because you're looking at college career and life, and LinkedIn is a professional network, and you can find good advice on work life balance. We're going to come back to one of the questions you asked earlier. Now we're not at 1.5 billion or more, but avid alumni are about over 1 million since it first started. If I want to re look at my LinkedIn profile, or I'm starting a LinkedIn profile, what should I do best? You said it earlier, but let's repeat it to make sure that I am recognized avid alumni and can connect with others out in the in the world. Really avid alumni are out in the world. 1 million of them are in college and careers. So what can I do for my in my LinkedIn profile to recognize myself as an avid alumni?

Jazmin Garcia  29:14 
Such a great question. Oliver, I think what individuals can do to make sure to showcase that they went through the AVID program throughout their career, or in some way, shape or form, were part of this incredible group. Right? That, again, has helped me very much be successful in my career and in life, is that you showcase your participation through your headline so avid alumnus, very quick and easy that you can add that on there right your summary sections of your education certifications. You do get a avid certificate, right? Makes sense that you would put the certification there right at the end of the day, wherever you choose to put it on LinkedIn when any individual organization uses or. Tools, or even you as a job seeker at a certain period of time are looking to connect with someone that in some at some time, was part of avid you can just in the search button, button, put avid on there, or avid student, avid alumni, and you'll get a digest in some way, shape or form, of those individuals. That's why it's important, and it's critical that wherever you choose, I just named a couple of different ways that you can put avid alumni on your profile wherever you choose at the end of the day, because you'll get a digest of individuals profiles, you'll still be able to find that connection with an avid alumnus. Great,

Dr. Aliber Lozano  30:37 
really great, because as as a group, whether you're Avid or not, you're trying to break into this network. And when you can search for people like you in different groups, Avid or some of the other categories, even in your life experience, and you can identify that in your summary headline or certifications, then you can search and establish that network of someone who's going to be able to open the door. We know that avid students have grit, determination and have to work really hard in order to be successful, and what employer is not looking for that. So if someone another avid alumni, can say, you know, I don't know Jasmine, but she took avid and forgoed a fun class, not that avid isn't fun for a fun, rigorous coursework, then she got she has a good work ethic, and that can open up a door for you. So as we wrapping up today's podcast, I know that there's several of us that want to revisit the great tips you shared today, and you have resources, but let's start with the top three pieces of advice that you have for the subscribers to create or revise, because I know I'll be revising my profile after the discussion, but what are your top three things takeaways that we should look at when starting or revising a LinkedIn profile?

Jazmin Garcia  31:55 
Yeah, I'm Chris ELA where top three things and recommendations that I would make as you start or revise your LinkedIn profile is to ensure, once again, that all of the fields are filled out. That includes having a profile picture, that includes having a headline, summary, experience recommendations, what have you make sure you have at least one thing to fill out each of those sections. The you'll also notice that we've had a lot of enhancements, again, as technology is advancing, advancing correct. And so you'll notice that there is an AI draft with AI section on all of these sections. So you don't even have to kind of wrap your brain about what do I want to include in here? You include some keywords or a draft of any kind of message on your headline or your summary or experience, the list goes on, and AI will literally draft this for you. So it's just getting started, creating your LinkedIn profile, maximizing the AI technology that's already on the platform. And then next, I challenge you send an email message to someone that you have been kind of second guessing. I don't know. They're probably not going to respond to me. Just send them a name, a message. You'll never know what's going to happen until you actually try, right and then if, for some reason, that one doesn't work out, which I guarantee you, it will just send that message to the next person. And there we go on now you've officially maximized your LinkedIn profile.

Dr. Aliber Lozano  33:21 
Maximize your LinkedIn profile by getting started, of course, or revising. I like your call to action and challenge us to us. It's really reminiscent of AVID is set a goal and actually do it. You don't know until you actually do it. If you don't do it at all, it's an automatic no if you try it moves into the Yes, and you've shared some data about how many people reply when you do send a message in LinkedIn profile and they're trying to network. Jasmine, thank you so much for your advice and helping us answer what is your brand? LinkedIn edition, subscribers. I want to thank you for joining us in this episode, and I remind you with one of the quotes that Jeff bezo has said, your brand is what people say about you when you're not in the room. We talked about it LinkedIn, you get to go in and look at people, and they get to form ideas of why they need to reach out to you and connect with you, and the same goes with you. This quote emphasizes the importance of a positive, authentic and intentional digital present. It reminds us to craft, in this case, a LinkedIn profile that reflects our values and our aspirations while being mindful of the long term impact on our professional reputation that LinkedIn and the other social say about you when you're not in the room. Subscribers, thank you for listening. Be good today, because that's enough, and together, let's strive to get great tomorrow. Avidly adulting is powered by our. Alumni, and is brought to you by avid. To learn more about Avid, visit our website@avid.org if you are an avid alumni, join our network@avid.org forward slash alumni. Thanks for listening to avidly adulting. Join us the first and third Mondays of every month, as we feature guests and topics to help you navigate your first career with laughter, insights and life lessons, because adulting isn't just a job, it's an adventure.