New Head Start! Helping Student Build LinkedIn Profiles

We're adding something new to our services at Less College Stress Consulting – helping high school students create their first LinkedIn profiles.

You might be thinking: "Isn't LinkedIn for people with actual jobs?" But the landscape is changing, and it’s good for teens to take agency, especially when they are applying as majors to business, engineering, computer science, and health/science programs to highly competitive colleges. It’s one more advantage they can choose in a process that is largely beyond their control.

What Your Student Can Do on LinkedIn 

LinkedIn may allow your student to connect with professionals in fields they're interested in, find internship and research opportunities, and discover competitions and summer programs. It can help them research professors when are writing supplemental essays. A student can create their profile at any time, and this process ties in well with the college application process.

What We're Doing

We work with your teen and really dig into what makes them unique. We help them write a summary that actually sounds like them (not like a robot), organize their experiences in a way that tells their story, and teach them how to use the platform without feeling awkward about it. Most importantly, we advise them on how to maintain their profile and use it as they grow. This isn't a one-and-done – it's giving them a tool they'll use and update throughout high school, college, and beyond.