In the afternoon today, Previn Wong and Hannah Midkiff (a SE and Account Manager duo) presented about branding and networking; one of two presentations we had today that wasn’t really about Cisco as much as it was about working as a whole. Much of the presentation was focused on LinkedIn: social media centered around work and connections. We were told about the significance of creating a LinkedIn, yet were also told that, as high schoolers, we are far ahead of the curve: according to Hannah, she was told in college to delete everything she had from high school on her profile. She told us to have a more nuanced perspective about what to put on there, saying that if you’re really proud of something (like she was of her SAT score), keep it on: a LinkedIn profile is your personal place to brag about how great you are.
To start off our presentation, we were given a Kahoot (Claire won), apparently very popular at Cisco, not just CA.