A Picture is Worth…

Some great con­ver­sa­tions.

I’m here at Soft­ware AG’s Process­World, our annu­al glob­al cus­tomer con­fer­ence. We haven’t quite got­ten start­ed yet and already I’ve met a bunch of peo­ple and had some great con­ver­sa­tions.

Big deal, right? Wel… you’d expect this to hap­pen at a cus­tomer con­fer­ence.

Except it hasn’t hap­pened at the con­fer­ence. It’s hap­pened in the air­port. And the restau­rant.

I’m not even signed in yet. And, that’s the insight.

I use a pro­fes­sion­al­ly tak­en head­shot, and use the same shot con­sis­tent­ly across all my inter­nal and exter­nal pro­fes­sion­al social out­posts (which by the way, does not include Face­book).

Peo­ple rec­og­nize me.

Recog­ni­tion cre­ates oppor­tu­ni­ties.

And when they run into me, they know my work, which makes it easy to start a con­ver­sa­tion.

Even employ­ees at large com­pa­nies need to think about cre­at­ing a career port­fo­lio out of their work and estab­lish­ing a per­son­al brand. Those that don’t are not only miss­ing out on some great con­ver­sa­tions, they’re mis­judg­ing the cur­rent employ­ment cli­mate.