Monday Talent x Morgan State University: Round 2
By: Hibo Abtidon
Last year, Monday Talent had its first collaboration with Morgan State’s Strategic Communication Department, joining the ever-so-vibrant Zoom classrooms of David Marshall and Joonwoo Moon. I myself have had small interactions with the Morgan State students since I joined the Monday team in April. Gillian and I have worked with a couple of students on their resumes and connected them with other PR professionals. From those interactions, I could tell how determined for success these bright students were.
This October, I was lucky enough to join the Monday team as we took a break from LinkedIn sourcing, candidate calling, and interview scheduling to go join the university’s SCOM and Capstone classes. Although the students were thoughtfully engaged in class, their passion shined the most once the Zoom call had ended. It’s easy to be engaged and present in a conversation for 45 minutes during a lecture. It’s another thing to take advantage of the information available to you and fully utilize it beyond the classroom.
In college, I of course knew about LinkedIn but I was nowhere near utilizing it the way these impressive young incoming professionals are. These three profiles shared below especially stood out to us.
It’s connections such as these that truly give me energy. Everyone speaks about networking and why it’s important but at the end of the day, it’s all about authentic relationships. It’s relationships like these that make it all worth it.