Introduction to Build Your Professional Brand

In this lesson, you will build your professional brand.

Your professional brand refers to your own qualities and skills that you could promote to employers, colleges, and others for a new opportunity, such as a summer job or a scholarship.

For example, if you were being considered for an internship at a nearby bank, think about how you would respond when they ask you about your qualifications.

The bank is looking for an intern who is dependable and good with numbers.

You think you would be a great fit.

Think about how could you prove that you have these skills and qualities.

You will create a professional brand profile in Google Slides that you can refer to when asked about your qualifications for a new opportunity.

You will include all of the things that you want a potential employer or a college to know about you, and it will uniquely showcase your qualities, specific skills, and talents.

This lesson uses Google Slides, but you could apply these skills and concepts in any slideshow application.

As you complete this project in Google Slides, you will: Create a new presentation, Add a title and subtitle, Add slides that include your qualities, mission statement, past experiences, and evidence of your achievements, And add links.

To work on this lesson, sign in to your Google account.

Open a new tab in your browser, and navigate to Google dot com.

If you are not signed in, do so now.

If you do not have a Google account, pause the video and create one.

To begin, open Google Drive.

Create a new Google Slides presentation and name it.

Then, move on to the next video.

Now, it’s your turn: Sign in to your Google account, Open a new presentation, And name your presentation.