Women transforming tech: building your brand

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Building your brand is critical to reaching your career goals and climbing the career ladder. A strong brand clarifies your strengths and helps build trust and credibility with others. This short course—part of the Women Transforming Tech series—helps young women in tech understand how to leverage their unique personal brand to meet their professional goals. Syamla Bandla—a tech leader and current director of product engineering at Facebook—explains why a personal brand is so beneficial, and shows how to define, promote, and evolve your brand. She also describes how personal branding can be applied to overcome obstacles and how introverts can use their brand to build connections.

The benefits of having a personal brand

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Promoting your personal brand

Evolving your personal brand

Personal branding to overcome obstacles

Personal branding for introverts

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Women transforming tech: building your brand

What you'll learn

What you'll learn

How it works

Select 'start the course' below. You will be taken to LinkedIn Learning. You don't need to sign up. You will find the course under the Contents tab.

Watch the videos, you can do this in one or more visits.

Once you have watched all the videos, you will have completed the course.

3 other courses you might love

Diversity, inclusion, and belonging for all

Women transforming tech: breaking bias

Women transforming tech: getting strategic with your career

Select 'start the course' below.

You will be taken to LinkedIn Learning. You don't need to sign up. You will find the course under the Contents tab.