Optimize Your LinkedIn Profile
Elevate your career: get found, get recruited, get promoted.
Golden Valley Brewery, Beaverton
1520 Northwest Bethany Boulevard Beaverton, OR 97006-5205 United States
Most people treat their LinkedIn profile like a resume that happens to live online. Hiring professionals treat it like a database they search.
Your LinkedIn profile shapes how recruiters, hiring leaders, colleagues, and executives within your own organization see you, often long before anyone reaches out. Qualified people with polished profiles go unfound every day. This session covers the profile itself, your photo, headline, about and experience sections, and skills, and how recruiter search actually works on the other side of it. It is not a content strategy session and it is not about posting more. The event is hosted by the Oregon Executive MBA Alumni Network and is open to all UO alumni and friends.
Whether you are exploring new opportunities, positioning yourself for a promotion, or simply want the right opportunities to find you, you will leave with specific changes you can make the same evening. Every attendee also gets a LinkedIn Tips Guide.
Bring your questions. James Lund, MBA '24, president of the OEMBA Alumni Network board and managing partner of ProFocus Technology, will present, followed by an extended Q&A with two Portland recruiting professionals: Adam Morris, CEO of SalesFirst Recruiting, and Corbin C, career advisor at Boly:Welch.
💬 Discussion topics include:
- How recruiter search actually works, and why qualified people get missed
- The profile fields that matter most and the ones quietly working against you
- Getting found without applying and getting noticed inside your own company
- What recruiters tell candidates privately, from a panel who does this daily
Registration
Registration includes hors d'oeuvres and two drink tickets. Click here to register.
$20 for UOAA members
$25 for nonmembers
$15 for current students
Location
Golden Valley Brewing - Beaverton
1520 Northwest Bethany Boulevard
Beaverton, OR 97006
Questions?
For questions or to request accommodations, please email Tyler Ciokiewicz or call 541-346-5656.
Meet the Speakers
James Lund
James Lund is president and managing partner of ProFocus Technology, a Portland-based technology staffing and consulting firm. He brings nearly two decades of executive leadership across private and nonprofit organizations. Since joining ProFocus in 2016, he has helped grow the firm into a national and global operation, earning recognition on The Inc. 500 and as one of the Best Companies to Work For in Oregon. In 2025, he was named to the Portland Business Journal's 40 Under 40. A graduate of the University of Oregon's Executive MBA program, James serves as president of the Oregon Executive MBA Alumni Network board and as treasurer of the Society for Information Management Portland Chapter. He also hosts the Silicon Forest Tech Connect Series. James lives in Tualatin with his wife and their five children.
Corbin C
Corbin C is a Career Advisor at Boly:Welch, where he's supported job seekers across all
industries and career levels since 2013. Having worked one-on-one and in group settings with thousands of job seekers, he's seen the breadth of concerns, questions, and
assumptions that make up the job search experience and has helped candidates tackle
everything from bias to personal branding while navigating the hurdles of a competitive job market.
Adam Morris
Adam Morris us the founder and CEO of SalesFirst Recruiting, a national recruiting firm he started in 2012. Adam built his career in B2B sales, sales leadership, and recruitin g. He is a 2002 University of Oregon graduate with a degree in journalims and public relations and is also active in business and community leadership in the Portland area.
This event is open to all UO alumni, UOAA members, faculty, staff, students, families, and their guests.
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