Date: 15th Feb 2012 Seminar on “Leveraging LinkedIn to establish a Strong Professional Online Presence”:

Location: Skyline Business School-Gurgaon Campus
Speaker: Mr. C  Rajagopalan” who is an Entrepreneur and the Co-Founder of Pragmatic Learning
The topic for today’s seminar was “Usage of linked –in” and the speaker was “Mr. C Rajagopalan” who is an Entrepreneur and the Co-Founder of Pragmatic Learning. He is a B.Tech from Punjab Technical University and has also done his PGDIM from National Institute of Engineering. Mr. Rajagopalan has a work experience of 11 years to flaunt; he has worked as Manager at IREO, Manager at GMR Group, Senior Consultant at KPMG, Assistant Manager at BNP Paribas.
Mr.Rajagopalan’s new venture – Pragmatic Learning, provides Web 2.0 Education and Training through proprietary short structured videos. These videos are high-definition (HD) screen casts, simple and short – up to five minutes in duration. Pragmatic Learning’s latest product launch is – “The LinkedIn Five Minutes Video Series for Professional Development and Learning” .
It invites Companies, Educational Institutions and Individuals to study The LinkedIn Five Minutes Video Series and harness the 100% potential of LinkedIn for Professional Development and Learning. The short structured Videos in this Series improve learning productivity and provide on-demand education. Linked-in in today’s corporate world has become an essential fragment in job search and professional networking.
Linked in has 150 million users all over the world and in US, 80% of recruitments are done through this site. Therefore it has become the need of the hour to have the perfect linked – in profile as we are the potential job seekers and what better than a seminar on it. The basic purpose of the site is to allow registered users to maintain a list of contact details of people with whom they have some level of relationship, called Connections. Users can invite anyone to become a connection.
LinkedIn allows users to research companies with which they may be interested in working. The seminar helped us know the need of a good linked-in profile which is nothing but to “sell yourself”. All in the entire seminar was highly edifying.

                                                                Compiled by- Nandini Prasad (MBA- First Year Student Student)