Careers Over Coffee

Day 2 of 10 Days to Build a Better LinkedIn Profile Challenge! Today, we are evaluating your current LinkedIn profile compared to your personal brand you identified yesterday, in Day 1 of the challenge. Evaluating your LinkedIn profile is an important step to understand where your current profile is compared to where it should be to do your personal brand justice. Today, we will walk through a series of evaluation questions (in this podcast and in the worksheet inside the course) that will help you get this understanding.  A FREE worksheet and keynote, as well as the keynote video, are available inside the FREE 10 Days to Build a Better LinkedIn Profile Challenge course. Join the Challenge: http://www.careersovercoffee.com Show Notes: https://www.chriskochan.com/4  

Toady is Day 1 of 10 Days to Build a Better LinkedIn Profile Challenge! We are diving right into the 10 Days to Build a Better LinkedIn Profile by going through what is a personal brand is and how to create a personal brand. With a look at celebrities and influencer personal brands, we'll walk through all the elements needed to make sure you are able to understand how to create a personal brand of your own specifically on LinkedIn. Today's challenge is to create your personal brand statement. The remaining 9 days of the 10 Days to Build a Better LinkedIn Profile challenge all tie back to your personal brand statement, so this one is important! Sign up to join the challenge and make sure you download the free worksheet inside the course! The worksheet, as well as the keynote, will help you walk through creating a personal brand and a personal brand statement statement. Join the Free Challenge: http://www.careersovercoffee.com Show Notes: https://www.chriskochan.com/3

Building a career is hard, let alone with a 2.63 GPA. In today's episode, I explain how I still made my way through the aerospace industry, into a strategic position at Harley-Davidson, and onto the iPhone team at Apple through personal branding - even with having a 2.63 GPA when I graduated from college. This is an introduction to the 10 Days to Build a Better LinkedIn Profile challenge! The 10 Days to Build a Better LinkedIn Profile challenge goes through ten different steps to creating your personal brand and overhauling your LinkedIn profile to start attracting recruiters, clients, and opportunities to you. The challenge will be the next 10 episodes of the Careers Over Coffee podcast, from episode 02 - 11. However, if you sign up for the official challenge on CareersOverCoffee.com, you get access to keynote videos, downloadable keynotes, worksheets, and more! Join the Free Challenge: http://www.careersovercoffee.com/ Show Notes: https://www.chriskochan.com/2  

If you are looking for ways to launch your career after college, get a new, better, or more fulfilling job, or start to transition away from working in the corporate world so you can finally start that business - this is the podcast for you! My name is Chris Kochan. From 2.63 GPA in college to working at Apple, then starting my own online businesses - I have worked hard the past 8 years to create a life of choice and freedom. My goal is to help you grow your career, increase the amount of opportunities you have, and achieve your ultimate career goals. Through personal branding and making strategic moves in my career, I have been able to achieve every goal I make... and I truly believe anyone can do this, too! On Careers Over Coffee, I'll be sharing insights, strategies, and tips that helped me grow my career from the aerospace industry to managing 9 figure budgets at Harley-Davidson. Then, how I was able to use personal branding and make some strategic moves to land a job at Apple with my 2.63 GPA, where I ma