Think of this assignment as chapter two and three of your research paper. Only submit the Literature review and Proposal (Do not include your Introduction and methodology - especially the references for those sections).

Introduction

An online profile is a necessity to nowadays job seekers to increase visibility and presence. Benefits of creating online profiles includes first impression, work showcase, and networking opportunities. Firstly, online profile is first impression from hiring managers because they usually click through links provided in resume to see what you have built in online profile, how others recommend you, and skills you have and endorsed by others. The more detailed working experience, skills description and recommendation you have, the more likely HRs will have interests on you and keep you in next phone screening stage. Besides, an online profile is also a perfect place storing work showcase. Resume is usually limited to 1 page. Single word description may not comprehensively demonstrate what you have experienced and quality of your work. Online profile provides a variety of formats to demonstrate your strength, skills set, and work. For example, you may submit your presentation slides and videos to vividly show how you work and behave. Furthermore, networking opportunities are abundant online. You are able to reach to hundreds of HRs and alumnus to explore the industries you are interested in.

A link to my video in DeakinAir: https://video.deakin.edu.au/media/t/0_fn4nrc3i

Reflect on what I learnt from creating my profile and video, and the feedback

It has been a fruitful journey from creating profile, video and receiving feedback from my team members. Creating profile and video provides me opportunity to think thoroughly about my background experience, strength and weakness and career interest. It took me several days to find clues and straighten my thoughts. I find myself interested in financial industry. Since I am good at math, my strength of excellent number sensitiveness is a perfect match to this industry. However, the strength is not always easy to demonstrate in a professional profile. I need to integrate my skill sets in working and project experience. Besides, when I create video, I find it difficult to describe myself completely since time is limited to 1 minute, and I have too much to say about my experience and skill sets. Therefore, after a few times of rehearsal and adjustment, I managed to control words within time. I leant to tailor and reserve the most important part in my video. Furthermore, feedback from my team members provides helpful comments to improve my speech. For example, my team mate points out that I should have added more examples about soft skills such as communication, collaborative, and leadership skills. Besides, he also mentions that I did not pay attention to job description and present convincing reason on why I am the perfect match to the position. I am very grateful to his comments and his advice is able to improve my pitch to be more convincing and competitive. To better strengthen my pitch, I prepare a few examples to demonstrate my soft skills. For example, I use a project working experience to exhibit my leadership and communication skills. Besides, I also research on the position deeply to find out what kind of candidate they are looking for and try to match my experience with ideal candidate profile.

Reflect on my experience working with team members

Reviewing on the whole assignment completion process, my team mate worked collaboratively with me and provided a few constructive and insightful comments. He pointed out the area I missed in personal pitch such as why I am a competitive candidate to the position, how my background is a perfect match with characteristics company is look for. Besides, he also kindly remind me to wear professional in video recording and for online profile. Since then I understand the necessity of dressing up appropriately because the dressing is the first impression before I speak with hiring managers. Therefore, I went to the store and bought suit and tie. In spite of helpful reviews given by my teammates, the improvement on my pitch and profile is very limited. The word count for reviews are merely around one hundred. I expect the peer feedback more frequent. For example, before the formal video recording, group members could set up time and meet to rehearsal a few times, so that every one will get multiple chances to receive comments and polish harsher on their pitch. An impressive pitch requires at least ten times of practice and tweak. Therefore, peer practice and other forms of training should be organized more frequently. Speaking of Assignment 4, it is a mock interview. I plan to prepare fully on the interview by practicing multiple times before the interview. I will write down the transcript, tweak and revise it till complete and convincing. Besides, I will pay more attention to other group member’s performance and keep in mind the excellent part they have done so that I am able learn from them. In addition, I will dress up professionally in mock interview to leave a good impression. Besides, I will try to write down as much review as possible to help with my group member.

Conclusion

It was a fruitful journey going through assignment 3. I obtained hands-on experience in creating my profile and developing pitch. I really appreciate my group member’s feedback, which provides useful insight to improve my personal statement. I will continue to work hard to polish my pitch and interview performance. I feel passionate about stepping forward to take ownership in career pursue process.

Appendix 1: Screen shots of DeakinTalent profile

Appendix 2: feedback and critiques received from team members with names and dates listed.

Appendix 3: the feedback and critiques you provided. Screenshots of emails or posts are acceptable.

Peer Review Form

Student being reviewed: ________Soonwoo Kwon__________

Student providing review: __________Chengchen Zhang_____

Other team member: _________________None____________

	Make comments in the appropriate cell about each of the performance criteria. Your feedback must be supported by the evidence shown in the appendices.
Performance Criteria	Needs Improvement	Satisfactory to Good	Very Good to Excellent
Worked collaboratively Did the student provide feedback that lead to the development and improvement of the profile and video elements?			Feedback from Soonwoo provides helpful comments to improve my speech and point out my gramma mistakes of my profile.
Showed commitment and responsibility Did students meet deadlines and attended all meetings?			Soonwoo arrange group meeting every time and attended all meetings on time.