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8 Original Content Creation Tips for LinkedIn

8 Original Content Creation Tips for LinkedIn

Original content creation is a key component of social brand building for both corporations and individuals. Developing a disciplined approach to the content creation process is imperative to ensure a consistent flow of relevant and relatable content for your audience.

LinkedIn: The Student Employability and Internship Imperative

LinkedIn: The Student Employability and Internship Imperative

Your online footprint becomes a permanent record of you as an individual, particularly on social media. Ensuring your digital behavior is consistent with the image you wish to project to potential employers, the values you hold, and the reputation you seek to build is of paramount importance.

Today’s Career & Technical Education Student

Today’s Career & Technical Education Student

Cutting-edge CTE programs have also realized that it is no longer enough to simply teach students the technical skills needed to perform a job after graduation. Students must also learn the professional, digital communication and networking skills that are now required to excel in today’s connected economy.

Students: Invest in Your Personal Brand

Students: Invest in Your Personal Brand

Personal brand building is an investment in yourself. By genuinely portraying your identity and positioning your perspectives and viewpoints to build rapport with your network, you will enhance your reputation and authority and solidify a critical career asset.

How to Join Your High School Alumni Network on LinkedIn

How to Join Your High School Alumni Network on LinkedIn

LinkedIn has made a major change to the way that many secondary schools are classified on the platform.

In the past, high schools were treated as companies which meant that only employees were able to associate themselves with the institution. With the new update however, many secondary schools are now classified as schools. This means that when you link your profile to your alma mater, you will be included in its alumni section.

The Socially Savvy Career and Technical Education Director

The Socially Savvy Career and Technical Education Director

Socially Savvy Career & Technical Education (CTE) directors realize that it is no longer enough to simply teach students the technical skills needed to perform a job after graduation. Students must also learn how social media is used in the professional world and understand that social media actions impact their online identity and personal brand in both positive and negative ways.

10 Steps to CTE Student Networking Success

10 Steps to CTE Student Networking Success

Employing a social media curriculum in schools provides today’s CTE students with a professional differentiator. By learning social media communication best practices and digital citizenship norms now, students will be able to set themselves apart from their competition later, whether they are career or college bound.

CTE Instructors & Administrators: Five To Dos

CTE Instructors & Administrators: Five To Dos

First and foremost, the core mission of career and technical education (CTE) is to prepare students for career success, and strengthening and expanding teaching and school leadership opportunities is the responsibility of the CTE team. Below are five recommendations for CTE instructors and administrators to consider as a way to lean forward to advance the CTE agenda.