Your Career Podcast with Jane Jackson
Want MORE out of your CAREER? YOUR CAREER Podcast will help you create the career you deserve. Listen to comprehensive careers guidance and new ideas on how to secure that dream job.
You will gain career clarity and career confidence, learn how to improve your job interview skills, create a powerful resumé and get top LinkedIn tips to help you build your personal brand to attract job opportunities.
Jane Jackson is a LinkedIn Top Voice, Career Management Coach, Speaker and Author of Amazon Australia Careers Best Seller "Navigating Career Crossroads".
Jane's is driven to make career guidance and advice accessible to all who need it.
Enjoy these valuable job search tips and listen to interviews with professionals and entrepreneurs who have made successful transitions into exciting new directions.
Whether you want job search advice, resume tips, LinkedIn profile development or strategies to get noticed by hiring managers, job interview advice, job hunting tips, negotiation strategies or to overcome the challenges that come with career change, this podcast will inspire and empower you for career success!
Your Career Podcast with Jane Jackson
Joseph Akoni - LinkedIn Product Manager - Episode 199
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Joseph Akoni is a talented Product Manager at LinkedIn where he works on the Identity (Profile) team. He creates products to help members showcase their best personal and professional selves in order to connect them to the best economic opportunity available.
Joseph is passionate about the intersection of product and culture and takes pride in creating global products that resonate with local cultures and communities.
One of his focuses at LinkedIn has been on developing solutions to improve the profile experience for LinkedIn’s non-United States based users who represent over 450+ million members.
Joseph is the creative behind the LinkedIn Voice Pronunciation feature helping networkers to pronounce names correctly. This is an excellent feature that helps to break down the barriers across cultures and facilitate clear communication.
I was so impressed with this feature that I had to interview him on YOUR CAREER Podcast and find out his career journey. And what an amazing journey it has been!
Joseph has extensive experience in the technology sector having worked as a Product Manager at Lyft and NVIDIA, and across various business development and marketing roles at Intel. He has both his Bachelors and Masters degrees in Computer Engineering from the University of Florida and the Georgia Institute of Technology, respectively, and has recently received his MBA from the University of California-Berkeley Haas School of Business.
Most recently, Joseph has founded ThePZeroPM.com, the premiere website for tips and tools to ensure a successful start to anyone’s product management career.
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