EFL Teachers LinkedIn
By Karenne Sylvester
This article first appeared on How to Learn English (http://kalinago.blogspot.com/)
Like everything else in life, you getback what you put in and LinkedIn is no exception to this rule.
Whether they are accountants, IT managers or CEOs they’re all there on LinkedIn.
English Language Teachers, institute owners, publishers, authors, bloggers and e-learning site developers.
However, and actually, the thing I like best about this site is that unlike most other social-networking sites, on LinkedIn you know exactlywho’re you’re talking to and the profile you build also manages to serve as an online public CV (resumé) .
That may seem a little scary, especially if you’re learning all this techie stuff with me step-by-step, but if you are looking to
- expand your clientele
- stretch into new fields of expertise
- state your availability for new projects or jobs
- or you just want to let the world know about your teaching abilities
then it is an excellent space in which to do this in.
1. Building a good profile
Spend time filling in all the details about your life, work experience, abilities, qualities and aspirations.
Remember that you are not only listing what you can do but in a way, just like in an interview, you are selling yourself in advance.
Definitely put in the same amount of time you’d spend updating your CV if you were applying for a job next week – LinkedIn is searchable by Google and once you have a profile listed, it is this (if you have a vanity profile) that will most likely be on the first page whenever someone types in your name.
Karenne Sylvester is a certified TESOL trainer, working as a freelancer in Stuttgart, Germany and she specialize in teaching adult learners in the financial/ banking, energy, engineering and IT sectors.
She has lived and worked all over the world: from the Caribbean to the US, UK, Australia, Hong Kong and Ecuador.
She is the sole proprietor and webmaster of Kalinago English and author of SimplyConversationsTM, a pedagogically sound speaking skills system, designed to activate language learners’ fluency.
**Reprinted with kind permission, Karenne Sylvester of Kalinago English (http://kalinago.blogspot.com/).
* ELTWeekly would like to thank Karenne Sylvester for contributing this article.