Practical and Powerful Strategies to Further Your Career
Provided by: IEEE-SEM
Saturday, June 2, 2007, 8:00am-4:00pm
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Date: |
Saturday, June 2, 2007 |
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8:00
AM – 4:00 PM |
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Location: |
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Cost: |
$15
students / unemployed; $35 members; $50 non-members by May 30, 2007 Includes continental breakfast, lunch, and handout of
slides |
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Registration: |
http://www.emcsociety.org/ieeempac.html |
This
1-day seminar is divided into the following modules:
·
Welcome and Introductions (Adel/Liang/Virgil) (8:30AM,
30 min)
Speaker
and Attendee introductions
Overview
of seminar
·
State of the Engineering Workplace, Requirements
for Success in the new workplace and How you can Adapt – Ed Perkins (75 min)
Communicate “big picture”, paradigm shift, and
dynamics of job market
Understand change in market, no return to
past, list of challenges
Communicate what employers are expecting,
what things are needed to succeed
Understand market requirements, how you
relate to market, your business model (EXERCISE)
Communicate attitudes and approaches needed
to respond to new workplace
Understand personal factors impacting
adapting to new workplace
What are your “critical variables”? (EXERCISE)
Ed Perkins is chair of the CWPC subcommittee
on Career Issues.
·
“IEEE Expert Now” Overview - Liang
What is “IEEE Expert Now”
What are the available courses and cost associated
How to take the course
·
Break
– (15 min)
·
“Transition into Management” - (IEEE
Export course showed via computer) (60
min)
The course content will be a summary of the
material from B. Michael’s book, "From Engineer to Manager: Mastering the
Transition". Most engineers become
managers in their careers, and typically they are unprepared for the
transition. This course presents to the
learner, the knowledge and tools needed to quickly gain skill and confidence
with the world of management.
This transition calls for the engineer to
exercise six core principles that are critical for success as a manager:
Mastering Relationships
Seeing the Big Picture
Getting Things Done
Communicating Effectively
Using Assets Wisely, and
Taking It to the Next Level
·
Lunch
– (noon, 60 min)
·
"What it Takes to Be an
Innovator" (IEEE Export course
showed on
computer ) (60 min)
This course considers the fundamental issues
that need to be addressed by innovators and their organizations as they attempt
to use innovation as a means for sustaining high-levels of performance. The
course will characterize the scope and complexity of being the innovator from a
systems perspective. Learners will be presented with a set of concepts and
tools that can be applied in formulating, evaluating, and implementing
innovation--as related to the innovator.
After many years of work in upper atmosphere
research, development of process control systems, and as an entrepreneur,
Gerard (Gus) Gaynor joined 3M where innovation is not
a matter of choice but an expectation. After completing his tenure at 3M as a
technology executive Gaynor organized G. H. Gaynor and Associates concentrating in managing technology
and innovation from a systems perspective.
·
Break
– (15 min)
·
Developing a career strategy for
change – Ed Perkins (60 min)
Teach process of developing career plan,
brand, self-presentation
Recasting your accomplishments (EXERCISE)
What is your “value added”
How to build “value”
Personal brands
Consulting/Alternative work models
·
Creative job search –
Ed Perkins (30 min)
Teach “new” methods to find jobs and work,
elevator pitch, networking
Elevator pitch (tell me about yourself)
(EXERCISE)
Work vs Job
Informational Interviewing
Networking
Continuing Ed
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Conclusion -
(15 min)
Motivational
wrap-up, encouragement, fill out evaluations