Working World Realities
Aug. 4th, 2009 02:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
qosI've had the good fortune to connect with a really good employment counselor who is part of WorkSource. She recommended very strongly that I update my LinkedIn profile, removing the spiritual direction business from it and making it a more focused tool in my search for a day job. I hadn't realized that recruiters are using it as much as they are, and that the profile I've had up could have been working against me.
This has really been a theme over the past few months: juggling the degree to which I can bring my whole self to any given encounter. I grew up understanding that some things are not for general public consumption, and I am fine with being sensitive to the comfort boundaries of others, but I am continually frustrated by the fact that several of the things which are most important to me fall under the Do Not Discuss in General (or Professional) Company.
Anyway. . . I'm going to be creating a new LinkedIn profile for my vocational identity, using my business email and phone, and a different photo than the one I use on my public profile (which needs to be udpated). If I have to split my life into pieces, I might as well make each one shine as much as possible.
This has really been a theme over the past few months: juggling the degree to which I can bring my whole self to any given encounter. I grew up understanding that some things are not for general public consumption, and I am fine with being sensitive to the comfort boundaries of others, but I am continually frustrated by the fact that several of the things which are most important to me fall under the Do Not Discuss in General (or Professional) Company.
Anyway. . . I'm going to be creating a new LinkedIn profile for my vocational identity, using my business email and phone, and a different photo than the one I use on my public profile (which needs to be udpated). If I have to split my life into pieces, I might as well make each one shine as much as possible.
