Lab 20 · LinkedIn Profile Lab: Professional Presence

🎯 Objective

Create a public professional presence a recruiter can verify in one minute — consistent with your resume and GitHub.

🧩 Skills You Will Practice

• Headline writing
• About storytelling
• Featured portfolio curation
• Professional posting

🧰 What You Need

• Your finished resume (Lab 19)
• A clear professional photo
• Links to GitHub and 2 best projects
• LinkedIn account (free)

📋 Step-by-Step Tasks

1. Set the headline to a formula, not just Student: Field + Skills + Goal, for example CS Student | Web Development and Cybersecurity | Building projects in Python and JavaScript.
2. Write the About section in 4–5 lines: your field and semester, your strongest skills, one concrete achievement (a lab or project with a result), and what you are looking for (internship, collaboration, mentorship).
3. Add Education and your real skills, matching the resume wording and dates exactly — recruiters cross-check, inconsistencies cost trust.
4. Use Featured to pin your 2 best projects: link the GitHub repo or project page with a one-line description of what it does and what you learned.
5. Set a clear profile photo (face visible, plain background, no group crop) and a simple banner — no logos or text you do not own.
6. Publish one introductory post: what you are learning, one project you finished, one thing it taught you, and what is next. Professional, specific, no copying anyone text.
7. Connect deliberately: follow 10 relevant people or pages (lecturers, local tech communities, companies you admire) — quality over mass-adding strangers.

✅ Expected Result / Deliverable

A complete LinkedIn profile matching your resume, with headline, About, featured projects and one published learning post — ready to link from your resume and GitHub.

⚠️ Common Mistakes

• Headline that says only Student at university
• Skills and dates that differ from the resume
• Copying another person About text