Plain Language

I joined a plain language LinkedIn group today.  Some do not like plain language but it has many benefits.

Main LinkedIn Profile

My main LinkedIn profile is: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fahmeenamoore/

I have several other profiles in LinkedIn. One highlights my research. That profile is: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fahmeenaodetta/

Main LinkedIn Profile

LinkedIn Benefit

I believe LinkedIn is good for providing additional information on a job seeker’s background - information that may not fit on a resume. My resumes are usually short. I carefully select the information to include. But my LinkedIn profile provides much more information such as additional duties performed and examples of my work (such as example reports prepared at the Office of the District of Columbia Auditor).

New Resume/CV

In one of my recent posts on LinkedIn, I mentioned that I was working on my resume/CV and having difficulties. "My background is complicated." I said. "It includes an internship in the middle of my career, design experience that intersects my BA experience, managerial experience from PhD coursework, and so on." I wondered whether I should use the services of a resume writer.

The externship/internship was such a rewarding experience. I did many things, thanks to the management at USPTO. I assisted with a usability study (the lab exercise part) for employees to evaluate video conferencing options. That experience was very useful to me (came in handy) during my PhD studies. The externship extended for several months longer than planned so I could say that it was a job. It is currently in the Education section of my LinkedIn profile because I got the externship through the school.

Writing a good resume is difficult. Even when I did not have much experience, I was unsure about what to include, what to place first, how best to describe my background, and so on. Then there was the issue of selling myself. I am from a conservative background. I felt uncomfortable about "talking up" my background. But this is required in the U.S.

I got very good at resume writing. I bought a resume writing book and studied the examples.

I don't think I could fit my background on a 2-3 page resume. Time will tell.

 

 

 

(Screenshots from LinkedIn. Related profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fahmeenamoore/)

BA experience

There is now a summary for my second LinkedIn profile. I worked on it yesterday. See it here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fahmeenaodetta/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On the subject of knowledge and skills from my Business Analyst experience (from my first LinkedIn profile) that I used in papers and presentations, I can say that I directly used my BA background in a presentation titled 'Data Mining: Acquiring Information and Intelligence From Data'. See it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4crCeJegGY
In the presentation, I started with a discussion of organizations' need to obtain more knowledge and understanding from data and use more data from decision-making along with a discussion of the types of data stored by organizations. Then, I discussed that organizations directly use data stored in the databases of individual applications for analysis. This is followed by a discussion that the applications themselves may perform complex analysis for users. I provided an example of a system that automatically matched wire expectations with actual wire data - a complex process that would be tedious if performed manually. This is from my experience at Fannie Mae. Another example I provided was a recommender system that determined patterns in data. I learned of recommender systems while preparing my signature paper on online reviews. 

Finally, I looked at the use of a data warehouse for data analysis, and the mining of data, specifically what is data mining and data mining techniques. I also looked at the limitations of data warehousing and data mining in the future. In the past, I worked on a data warehousing project at Grant Thornton for a short time. I learned some of those concepts there.

I liked the presentation. I received a good grade.

 

 

(From the YouTube video of presentation 'Data Mining: Acquiring Information and Intelligence From Data' prepared by Fahmeena Odetta Moore.)

Background

I am still working on my second LinkedIn page (https://www.linkedin.com/in/fahmeenaodetta/). I pretty much dumped data in the profile and am working to organize it all.

I want to show that I used my background (education, jobs, articles etc.) in my PhD papers - information I showed in my other LinkedIn profile some time ago. In that profile, I showed a connection between past jobs and specific papers.

I think it is clear that I used my background in website design and social media to select topics and write papers that fall under the Social Media, Websites, and Blogging category/area. For example, I wrote a paper on how websites should be designed to meet consumer needs. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(From blog post https://moorefo1ncuresearchdesign.blogspot.com/2016/11/work-continues.html, Paper: Method and Design for a Website Improvement Study)

I determined which social media options/sites to use for LifeLessonsForAll/the Lessons Project. I used that knowledge in a paper on social media selections.