CS-E4920 - Portfolio in Software and Service Engineering (V) D, Lecture, 6.9.2021-11.5.2022

Your task is to:

1. construct a LinkedIn profile (or a CV) based on the learning portfolio,
2. construct a 1-minute video that summarizes you as a SSE professional,
3. promote your profile and video to a potential employer,
   
4. prepare a presentation.

Using the learning portfolio as raw data, create or update your LinkedIn profile (or, if you do not wish to use LinkedIn, your written CV). In addition, prepare a 1-minute video that summarizes you as a SSE professional. In a way, the video is a recorded pitch talk about yourself. Upload the video to a site where it can be accessed by others as well. The video can be targeted for the particular employer, or a more general one that you could attach to your LinkedIn profile.

Thereafter, promote your profile and video to a potential employer and ask for feedback. Firstly, arrange the meeting time: you can select a company you could consider as an employer, or a contact person from a job advert. Remember to consider a variety of domains and also smaller companies, not just the obvious well-known software companies. In any case, do not use a relative, your current employer, or somebody that knows you well for this task. If you have difficulties arranging a meeting, contact the teacher. Lets use this Google Sheet to avoid contacting the same people multiple times

After the meeting time is set, send your profile and video to the potential employer. In the meeting, present the profile and video and ask for feedback. What impressed the employer? What could be improved? Would they hire the person based on such a profile?

After the meeting, create a 5-7 minutes long presentation for the next contact session about your findings. Firstly, the presentation should include the video you made, as well as a brief summary of your profile. Thereafter, describe explicitly the professional you contacted and the rationale for contacting him. Finally, summarize the feedback you got. What were the strengths? How could the profile be improved?

The deliverables of this task include the presentation slides, a link to the video, and a link to your LinkedIn profile. If you do not wish to use LinkedIn, you can include your CV as PDF.

This task is done individually.

The following material can be helpful in this task:

• Chapter 4 in "How to Really Use LinkedIn" (see attachment)
  
• Teekkarin työkirja, English version 
  

We also encourage you to join the LinkedIn group Software and Service Engineering students @ Aalto .