{"id":217,"date":"2026-03-30T01:40:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T01:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/kalesportblog\/?p=217"},"modified":"2026-03-30T01:40:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T01:40:29","slug":"sports-professional-penpal-dont-be-the-weakest-linkedin-part-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/kalesportblog\/2026\/03\/30\/sports-professional-penpal-dont-be-the-weakest-linkedin-part-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports Professional Penpal: Don&#8217;t be the Weakest LinkedIn (Part Two)!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For this assignment, I logged into my LinkedIn account and looked up my sports penpal, Julia Mendelson. After looking through her profile and gathering a good idea of the jobs she&#8217;s had and the work she&#8217;s done, I reached out through email to follow up and provide details about the second part of this assignment. After she replied, I provided her with a few questions about her career. Here is the infographic I made:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/kalesportblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40673\/2026\/03\/sportspenpal.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/kalesportblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40673\/2026\/03\/sportspenpal.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/kalesportblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40673\/2026\/03\/sportspenpal.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/kalesportblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40673\/2026\/03\/sportspenpal-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/kalesportblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40673\/2026\/03\/sportspenpal-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/kalesportblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40673\/2026\/03\/sportspenpal-750x563.png 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For this assignment, I logged into my LinkedIn account and looked up my sports penpal, Julia Mendelson. After looking through her profile and gathering a good idea of the jobs she&#8217;s had and the work she&#8217;s done, I reached out through email to follow up and provide details about the second part of this assignment. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/kalesportblog\/2026\/03\/30\/sports-professional-penpal-dont-be-the-weakest-linkedin-part-two\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32083,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wds_primary_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/kalesportblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/kalesportblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/kalesportblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/kalesportblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32083"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/kalesportblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/kalesportblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/kalesportblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions\/219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/kalesportblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/kalesportblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/kalesportblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}