In-person at Point Grey: AAPS PD: Career Care Part 4: LinkedIn
Program Summary
In this session, you will explore practical ways to use LinkedIn, from refining your profile to experimenting with engagement practices and finding language that highlights your accomplishments. You will also consider how LinkedIn can support career curiosity by offering a window into roles and organizations beyond your own. This working session provides a supportive space to try things out, compare approaches, and decide what feels right for you. You will leave with fresh ideas and specific steps to make LinkedIn part of your career toolkit.
This session is a combination of learning and co-working. Please be sure to bring an electronic device with access to LinkedIn to work on.
Audience
This session is open to all AAPS members who have a LinkedIn profile and are somewhat familiar with the platform. Your profile does not need to be complete and you don’t need to be a regular user of LinkedIn to benefit from this session. If you have any questions about whether this session is right for you, please email aaps.pd@ubc.ca.
What You Will Learn:
- Ways LinkedIn can support your career goals, including professional visibility, exploration, networking, and subtle career search
- How to draft or refine one element of your profile with intention, such as your headline, About section, photo, or keywords
- Approachable practices for engagement, including commenting, sharing, liking, and connecting or following others
- Strategies for highlighting accomplishments, whether individual or team based, in ways that feel authentic and transferable
- Methods for using LinkedIn as a tool for career curiosity, to learn about roles, organizations, and career paths
How You Will Learn:
- Working on the LinkedIn platform during the session – please bring your electronic device!
- Exercises, examples, and demonstrations
- Small and large group discussion
- Personal reflection
Participant Expectations for the live Zoom and in-person sessions
- To attend the full session. People arriving late, leaving early, or dropping in and out negatively impacts the experience for everyone. We understand that emergencies happen, but if everyone starts out with a full commitment and focus for the duration of the session, it makes the experience so much better for everyone
- To actively participate in the activities, be that personal reflection, small group conversations, and large group discussions. (And using audio and video for online sessions)
- Be open and engaged with the content of the session, even if it doesn't immediately resonate with you. We encourage you to try things out and help us create a positive learning environment for all participants
- To be professional, kind, and courteous to fellow participants and to practice patience, confidentiality, and inclusivity
About this Series
The AAPS PD Program welcomes back Professional Certified Coach Isabeau Iqbal for a five-part career development series Career Care. Whether you're wondering "what's next?" or "what if?" this series offers practical approaches to help you navigate your professional path. We will draw on your experience, contemporary research, and established frameworks to explore different facets of your work.
Each session combines Isabeau's experience coaching higher education professionals with tools you can adapt to your own career questions and aspirations. Topics include conducting a career check-in, mapping potential directions, affirming and drawing on your strengths, creating a regular reflection practice, and crafting a professional presence that is authentic to you. Join us for thoughtful discussions, practical exercises, and insights you can put to work right away.
If you would like to catch up on the recorded versions of past sessions, you can register to view them on the AAPS website.
About Your Facilitator
Dr. Isabeau Iqbal is a career coach and facilitator with a genuine appreciation for career stories—the chance encounters, bold decisions, and quiet realizations that shape our professional lives. With a background spanning adult education, dietetics, and even running a DJ business, she helps professionals gain clarity and fulfillment in their careers—whether that means rethinking priorities, making confident decisions, or acting on long-held aspirations.
As a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coaching Federation, Isabeau also serves as a mentor coach and coach assessor, supporting the next generation of coaches. She regularly blogs about career growth and is a Gallup Certified Strengths Coach, drawing on strengths-based approaches to help people recognize what they do best and apply it with intention.
Her approach is both practical and reflective and is grounded in the belief that meaningful career shifts don't always require an overhaul; often, what's needed are small and continuous steps, taken intentionally.
About Your Host
AAPS is your labour relations organization representing the Management and Professional Staff group to your employer UBC. AAPS is a separate organization from the University, and your conversations with us are confidential. We offer members professional labour relations advice that is in your best interest as an employee. We encourage you to get to know AAPS and your Collective Agreement.
The AAPS Professional Development Program is designed and hosted by AAPS for our members. We offer a variety of topics on management, leadership, interpersonal skills, workplace skills, as well as personal and social development. The AAPS PD Program is designed in consultation with the AAPS Board of Directors and staff. Member Services Officer Sarah Muff is the program's architect and manager. She staffs the PD events. If you have ideas or feedback, please email Sarah at sarah.muff@ubc.ca.
Registration Information
The AAPS Professional Development program is designed for and offered exclusively to AAPS members at no cost. AAPS members can register to attend an in-person, live Zoom session, or access the recorded version. Before registering, please consider your schedule and your ability to actively participate.
The live Zoom sessions require you to use audio, and video is also strongly encouraged. For the in-person and live Zooms, your presence and focus are important for the structure of this session. If that doesn't work for your schedule this time around, no worries, there is always the recorded version.
If you have accessibility requirements or questions, please email aaps.pd@ubc.ca. Zoom auto-captions are always enabled for our sessions. Please let me know if you need a live transcriber, interpretation, or other specific audio or visual supports for in-person or Zoom sessions. If you have other accessibility requirements for in-person sessions or would like more information about the venue, I can also answer those questions.