Welcome to the Treehouse Community

Want to collaborate on code errors? Have bugs you need feedback on? Looking for an extra set of eyes on your latest project? Get support with fellow developers, designers, and programmers of all backgrounds and skill levels here with the Treehouse Community! While you're at it, check out some resources Treehouse students have shared here.

Looking to learn something new?

Treehouse offers a seven day free trial for new students. Get access to thousands of hours of content and join thousands of Treehouse students and alumni in the community today.

Start your free trial

General Discussion

Neil Anuskiewicz
Neil Anuskiewicz
11,007 Points
Posted by Neil Anuskiewicz
Neil Anuskiewicz
11,007 Points

Career Insights of Treehouse Alumni on LinkedIn

I've seen a question in the forums a few times about the optimal way to list Treehouse in LinkedIn. I think that we can crowdsource this by taking a look at how others have structured their profiles. If you learn something about how to create a good Linkedin profile from this, please come back and post what you learned. Speaking for myself, I never feel my Linkedin profile's very good.

I complain about how cumbersome LinkedIn is sometimes so I thought I'd balance it by pointing out something cool, Career Insights using LinkedIn data:

https://www.linkedin.com/school/2570766/alumni

Note if anyone comes across a profile that you think listed their Treehouse tracks in an interesting way, please post your insights as an answer.

2 Answers

Neil Anuskiewicz
Neil Anuskiewicz
11,007 Points
Neil Anuskiewicz
Neil Anuskiewicz
11,007 Points

You know, the change I made based on looking at several profiles was to add Treehouse to education but instead of calling it "Team Treehouse" I called it "Treehouse." This makes a big difference as it will then autocomplete to Treehouse with the Tree Frog Logo. It looks MUCH nicer that way. I'm not sure why I didn't think to just do it that way before.

I've noticed a wide variation in how people describe the Track or TechDegree they're working or have completed. Some people just include a generic description of Treehouse, while others describe their track in a bit more detail.

I'm going to look at some more profiles to see what people wrote. So far, all I know is a bit of detail about the program is better than generic.

Marcus Richard
seal-mask
.a{fill-rule:evenodd;}techdegree
Marcus Richard
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 10,124 Points
Marcus Richard
.a{fill-rule:evenodd;}techdegree
Marcus Richard
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 10,124 Points

I'm interested in this too, as I'm just getting started with iOS development. It would be good to see how others have documented this sort of learning professionally. As for the meantime, I'm using YouTube.

Neil Anuskiewicz
Neil Anuskiewicz
11,007 Points
Neil Anuskiewicz
Neil Anuskiewicz
11,007 Points

Marcus, yes, it's an important topic, and there's a lot to it. I'm realizing that I have multiple profiles in various places so I've started by trying to make some incremental improvements in several places.

I was hesitant to list courses or tracks in progress and even have felt slightly sheepish about mentioning courses at all (I mean in general not just Treehouse) because I'm not exactly traditional student age. Then as I dig into this topic a bit I realize that lifelong learning is critical. Everyone probably needs to be doing it in one way or another. It's sort of an act of humility to put yourself in the position of learning new things.

I don't know if others have these sort of thoughts or not but I concluded that it's good to talk about what you're learning (in profiles and elsewhere) during the process not just as an afterthought when we reach certain milestones (e.g., completing a track or Techdegree).

I ran across this post on LinkedIn that I found useful in formulating my thoughts on learning, "Don't be a know-it-all. Be a learn-it-all." https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6265525694978158592/