This document discusses employability and engaging students. It begins by having students discuss their personal reasons for wanting to develop employability skills and which areas are most important to them, such as curriculum, assessments, work experience, and mentoring. It then has the students create a "baseline review" by rating the current and desired levels of engagement for different employability activities. Next, students discuss resources, permissions, challenges, and stakeholders needed to improve one priority area. Finally, students develop elevator pitches to advocate for improving this area to different audiences like students, employers, and society. The document aims to empower students to assess employability efforts and facilitate positive changes.
This document provides guidance for first year college students on writing persuasive business letters. It emphasizes the importance of planning the structure and format of the letter, knowing the audience, using a 12-point font like Times New Roman, crafting an attention-grabbing opening sentence, and proofreading for mistakes. An included resource on persuasive writing techniques supports using ethos, logos and pathos to effectively convey a passionate message to the intended reader.
The document outlines a sales training presentation covering key topics like introductions, questioning techniques, presenting product benefits, handling objections, body language, closing the sale, gaining commitment, and planning. The training aims to provide basics of selling, set objectives, and teach techniques for starting conversations, funneling prospects, gaining commitment, handling objections, using body language effectively, and closing sales. It concludes by summarizing the presentation and taking questions.
Ask the Expert - Essential Strategies for Your Next Career Development EventMercedes Rodríguez
Join us as we dive into the benefits involved with hosting career-themed events. We'll walk through success stories from your peers and provide actionable tips for turning your next event into a success!
This document provides tips for giving successful presentations. It outlines nine steps to structure a presentation, including analyzing the audience, setting objectives, and collecting persuasive information. It emphasizes the importance of rehearsing and practicing delivery techniques like maintaining eye contact, controlling speech pace and volume, remembering to breathe, having good posture, avoiding fiddling, smiling, using gestures, welcoming questions, and saying thank you. The overall message is that preparation, structure, and positive delivery are key to engaging an audience.
This document discusses using presentation software effectively when giving speeches or presentations. It addresses both the benefits of using software like PowerPoint, such as being able to incorporate multimedia elements dynamically, as well as potential downsides like technical issues disrupting the flow. The document provides tips for using software to enhance presentations without overdoing it, such as exploring software capabilities, going beyond just bullet points in slide design, and not including too much information. It also touches on common presentation mistakes to avoid.
How Product Managers Can Lead a Team by fmr Pivotal Sr PMProduct School
Main Takeaways:
- Build psychological safety within a team: learn how to create a shared understanding within a team you lead so that team members are comfortable raising important issues or concerns
- How to facilitate constructive conflict so that obstacles and risks are identified early and often, enabling you to create opportunities to clear or address those obstacles
- When and how to practice communication techniques for the regularly scheduled meetings that are critical to team progress
This document discusses employability and engaging students. It begins by having students discuss their personal reasons for wanting to develop employability skills and which areas are most important to them, such as curriculum, assessments, work experience, and mentoring. It then has the students create a "baseline review" by rating the current and desired levels of engagement for different employability activities. Next, students discuss resources, permissions, challenges, and stakeholders needed to improve one priority area. Finally, students develop elevator pitches to advocate for improving this area to different audiences like students, employers, and society. The document aims to empower students to assess employability efforts and facilitate positive changes.
This document provides guidance for first year college students on writing persuasive business letters. It emphasizes the importance of planning the structure and format of the letter, knowing the audience, using a 12-point font like Times New Roman, crafting an attention-grabbing opening sentence, and proofreading for mistakes. An included resource on persuasive writing techniques supports using ethos, logos and pathos to effectively convey a passionate message to the intended reader.
The document outlines a sales training presentation covering key topics like introductions, questioning techniques, presenting product benefits, handling objections, body language, closing the sale, gaining commitment, and planning. The training aims to provide basics of selling, set objectives, and teach techniques for starting conversations, funneling prospects, gaining commitment, handling objections, using body language effectively, and closing sales. It concludes by summarizing the presentation and taking questions.
Ask the Expert - Essential Strategies for Your Next Career Development EventMercedes Rodríguez
Join us as we dive into the benefits involved with hosting career-themed events. We'll walk through success stories from your peers and provide actionable tips for turning your next event into a success!
This document provides tips for giving successful presentations. It outlines nine steps to structure a presentation, including analyzing the audience, setting objectives, and collecting persuasive information. It emphasizes the importance of rehearsing and practicing delivery techniques like maintaining eye contact, controlling speech pace and volume, remembering to breathe, having good posture, avoiding fiddling, smiling, using gestures, welcoming questions, and saying thank you. The overall message is that preparation, structure, and positive delivery are key to engaging an audience.
This document discusses using presentation software effectively when giving speeches or presentations. It addresses both the benefits of using software like PowerPoint, such as being able to incorporate multimedia elements dynamically, as well as potential downsides like technical issues disrupting the flow. The document provides tips for using software to enhance presentations without overdoing it, such as exploring software capabilities, going beyond just bullet points in slide design, and not including too much information. It also touches on common presentation mistakes to avoid.
How Product Managers Can Lead a Team by fmr Pivotal Sr PMProduct School
Main Takeaways:
- Build psychological safety within a team: learn how to create a shared understanding within a team you lead so that team members are comfortable raising important issues or concerns
- How to facilitate constructive conflict so that obstacles and risks are identified early and often, enabling you to create opportunities to clear or address those obstacles
- When and how to practice communication techniques for the regularly scheduled meetings that are critical to team progress
A business presentation is used to introduce business practices or products to potential clients or customers. There are two main types: sales presentations which pitch a product or service to a client, and intra-organization presentations which introduce new policies or operations to coworkers. Effective business presentations involve planning the purpose, analyzing the audience, organizing content logically, developing visual aids, and rehearsing the delivery.
This document provides an overview of the ASU Startup School's Customer Discovery module. It discusses discovering customer pains through interviews, developing buyer personas, and defining targeted customer segments. The module teaches the customer discovery process and how to use customer feedback to identify the market, improve the product, and increase profits. The overall Startup School program helps entrepreneurs learn fundamentals like the business model canvas, customer discovery, building an MVP, and creating a business plan to execute their idea.
The document outlines key aspects of developing and delivering an effective presentation. It discusses the importance of preparation and planning, with the most critical step being understanding the presentation's purpose. The document also covers addressing multiple audience senses, increasing credibility, effective time management, and overcoming verbal communication barriers like speaking too fast or using jargon. Overall, the document provides guidance on how to structure a presentation to be audience-centered, persuasive, and achieve the desired outcome.
This document provides an overview of lessons from ASU Startup School on growing a company. The lessons cover:
- Understanding the "get, keep, grow" funnel for acquiring, retaining and increasing customers.
- Creating marketing/sales plans and managing customer relationships to get, keep and grow customers.
- Implementing growth hacking strategies like reducing customer acquisition costs and increasing lifetime value.
- Measuring key metrics like net promoter score to track growth.
The instructor, Aaron Bare, has experience driving growth as an entrepreneur, educator and consultant. He outlines the stages of Startup School which teach fundamentals and help entrepreneurs execute business plans.
Present For Impact - 6th September & 6th December 2017KPI Consultancy
In this full day session, we will learn :
1. High Impact Presentations :
- Build your presentation around your audience expectations
- Prepare 60 seconds elevator pitch for a high impact opening
- Get your audience's buy-in from the beginning until the end
2. Engage your Audience :
- Prepare relevant presentations for a specific audience
- Structure your presentation to get the maximum engagement
- Get straight to the point and get your audience buy-in
University of Westminster Skills Academy CV 2016Louise Bamford
This document provides guidance on creating an effective CV for an application to Goldman Sachs. It recommends researching the role and company thoroughly. The importance of using strong, active language to highlight achievements and quantify results is emphasized. Examples are provided of both chronological and skills-based CV formats. A shortlisting exercise gives participants experience reviewing CVs from an employer perspective. Additional career support services from the Career Development Centre are outlined at the end.
The document provides information about final resumes being due, an upcoming GE information night, tips for writing an effective resume, and an overview of the co-op interview and referral process. It discusses highlighting availability for fall 2015 or spring 2016 terms on resumes and notes CEAS students must complete five co-op terms. It also gives tips for responding to different types of interview questions using the STAR method.
The document discusses key aspects of developing effective presentation skills, including thorough preparation and understanding your audience. It emphasizes that preparation is the most important step, involving analyzing your audience, structuring your content to meet their needs, and anticipating questions. The document provides tips for an engaging opening, logical sequencing, effective delivery through vocal variation and body language, handling questions confidently, and using visual aids appropriately. Overall it stresses the importance of thorough preparation, channeling nerves positively, and actively engaging with your audience.
How does placement play an important role in University?
* Boosts soft and technical skills
* Imparts knowledge to improve productivity
* Improved interpersonal skills
* Encourages to pursue career goals
* Enhances employment prospects
This document discusses how ELT teachers can transition to being language coaches. It explains that coaching accelerates performance by helping individuals identify their purpose. Some reasons learners may hire a coach include not making progress, being embarrassed to speak, needing fast improvement, or wanting specific help not offered in classes. Coaching skills discussed are establishing trust, active listening, questioning, effective communication, creating awareness, designing action plans, goal setting, and accountability. Experience and qualifications helpful for coaches include language teaching, learning, coaching training, and a business mindset. The speaker provides coaching training resources and explains how coaches can develop learner autonomy inside and outside the classroom. Contact information is provided for further discussion.
Stand Out Subject Lines
Length: 1-2 hours | Audience: Beginner to Intermediate
Get their attention – get in the door – and get the response you desire. Whether you are trying to get read, realize revenue, increase your reach or inspire referrals, your subject lines are a key to your success! This fast-paced seminar will take a deeper dive into the mechanics of truly effective subject lines.
To book Sweet Spot Academy & Constant Contact Digital Marketing Workshop visit: http://bit.ly/DigitalMarketingWorkshops
Juan Gonzalez reflects on what he learned from ENC 3250. He discusses learning how to properly format a proposal in Chapter 5 and how important proposals are in business. In Chapter 8, he covers learning how to appropriately call and address meetings and presentations, which are crucial for advancing in a company. For the Module 9 supplement on email newsletters, he learned how to organize information to engage audiences and that most businesses use email newsletters to promote products and bypass mailing expenses.
The document provides tips for effective presentation skills. It discusses the importance of planning, preparing, and practicing a presentation. The key steps include understanding your audience and goals, structuring your presentation with an introduction, content, and conclusion, and using prompts, visual aids, and professional appearance and dress. The document emphasizes rehearsing your presentation multiple times with all materials to feel confident presenting to others.
This document provides tips for developing strong presentation skills. It emphasizes that preparation is key, including understanding the audience and structuring the presentation logically. The presentation should have a clear beginning, middle, and end, with an engaging opening, logical sequencing of content, and a summarizing close. Delivery is also important, with suggestions to move purposefully, vary vocal tones, speak directly to the audience, and be sensitive to nonverbal feedback. Overall, the document stresses the importance of thorough preparation, audience awareness, and effective structure and delivery to give a successful presentation.
This document provides tips for creating an effective resume as a college student or recent graduate. It recommends including coursework, projects, volunteer work, internships and skills. A good resume is tailored to the specific job and company, uses bullet points and action verbs to highlight key experiences and accomplishments, and has no spelling errors. Recruiters look for career objectives, quantitative metrics, leadership experience, and well-rounded interests. The document outlines guidelines for formatting, font size, spelling out acronyms, and getting feedback from others.
IXDA Chicago May 2015 : Recruiting Palace Gate Jennifer HegenerIxDA Chicago
The document provides advice for UX candidates on preparing for and participating in job interviews. It recommends carefully proofreading resumes and work samples, researching the company beforehand, dressing professionally, practicing common interview questions, sending thank you emails after the interview, and following up respectfully if no response is received within a given timeframe.
Join us for a session exploring how BambooHR Performance Management helps people feel supported and connected to your organization while providing management and leadership with opportunities for guidance and employee development.
This document provides tips for beginners on giving PowerPoint presentations. It outlines the four P's of presentation: plan, prepare, practice, and present. Under plan, it notes to consider the purpose of the presentation and audience. Preparation involves researching from various sources. Practice includes doing mock presentations and focusing on vocal techniques, body language, use of space, and timing. The goal is to engage the audience and get them thinking.
This document discusses key aspects of developing effective presentation skills. It emphasizes the importance of preparation, including understanding the audience's needs and structuring the presentation accordingly. The presentation should have a clear beginning, middle, and end, and utilize techniques like stories, questions, or facts to engage the audience. Presenters are advised to practice active delivery through movement, eye contact, and vocal variations, and to carefully consider the use of visual aids. Overall messages are the critical role of preparation, interacting with the audience, and channeling nerves into an effective performance.
Kevin MacDonald presents differences between GIS and Consumer Mapping, different technologies available such as Google Maps, Open Street Maps and Bing for mapping and LBS applications for "Big Data" Maps
Tyson Kingsbury shares his process in creating the #DevTO logo. He's also got some great tips from his experience in the last 2 decades for you young web designers starting out in this field...don't forget "garbage will haunt you
A business presentation is used to introduce business practices or products to potential clients or customers. There are two main types: sales presentations which pitch a product or service to a client, and intra-organization presentations which introduce new policies or operations to coworkers. Effective business presentations involve planning the purpose, analyzing the audience, organizing content logically, developing visual aids, and rehearsing the delivery.
This document provides an overview of the ASU Startup School's Customer Discovery module. It discusses discovering customer pains through interviews, developing buyer personas, and defining targeted customer segments. The module teaches the customer discovery process and how to use customer feedback to identify the market, improve the product, and increase profits. The overall Startup School program helps entrepreneurs learn fundamentals like the business model canvas, customer discovery, building an MVP, and creating a business plan to execute their idea.
The document outlines key aspects of developing and delivering an effective presentation. It discusses the importance of preparation and planning, with the most critical step being understanding the presentation's purpose. The document also covers addressing multiple audience senses, increasing credibility, effective time management, and overcoming verbal communication barriers like speaking too fast or using jargon. Overall, the document provides guidance on how to structure a presentation to be audience-centered, persuasive, and achieve the desired outcome.
This document provides an overview of lessons from ASU Startup School on growing a company. The lessons cover:
- Understanding the "get, keep, grow" funnel for acquiring, retaining and increasing customers.
- Creating marketing/sales plans and managing customer relationships to get, keep and grow customers.
- Implementing growth hacking strategies like reducing customer acquisition costs and increasing lifetime value.
- Measuring key metrics like net promoter score to track growth.
The instructor, Aaron Bare, has experience driving growth as an entrepreneur, educator and consultant. He outlines the stages of Startup School which teach fundamentals and help entrepreneurs execute business plans.
Present For Impact - 6th September & 6th December 2017KPI Consultancy
In this full day session, we will learn :
1. High Impact Presentations :
- Build your presentation around your audience expectations
- Prepare 60 seconds elevator pitch for a high impact opening
- Get your audience's buy-in from the beginning until the end
2. Engage your Audience :
- Prepare relevant presentations for a specific audience
- Structure your presentation to get the maximum engagement
- Get straight to the point and get your audience buy-in
University of Westminster Skills Academy CV 2016Louise Bamford
This document provides guidance on creating an effective CV for an application to Goldman Sachs. It recommends researching the role and company thoroughly. The importance of using strong, active language to highlight achievements and quantify results is emphasized. Examples are provided of both chronological and skills-based CV formats. A shortlisting exercise gives participants experience reviewing CVs from an employer perspective. Additional career support services from the Career Development Centre are outlined at the end.
The document provides information about final resumes being due, an upcoming GE information night, tips for writing an effective resume, and an overview of the co-op interview and referral process. It discusses highlighting availability for fall 2015 or spring 2016 terms on resumes and notes CEAS students must complete five co-op terms. It also gives tips for responding to different types of interview questions using the STAR method.
The document discusses key aspects of developing effective presentation skills, including thorough preparation and understanding your audience. It emphasizes that preparation is the most important step, involving analyzing your audience, structuring your content to meet their needs, and anticipating questions. The document provides tips for an engaging opening, logical sequencing, effective delivery through vocal variation and body language, handling questions confidently, and using visual aids appropriately. Overall it stresses the importance of thorough preparation, channeling nerves positively, and actively engaging with your audience.
How does placement play an important role in University?
* Boosts soft and technical skills
* Imparts knowledge to improve productivity
* Improved interpersonal skills
* Encourages to pursue career goals
* Enhances employment prospects
This document discusses how ELT teachers can transition to being language coaches. It explains that coaching accelerates performance by helping individuals identify their purpose. Some reasons learners may hire a coach include not making progress, being embarrassed to speak, needing fast improvement, or wanting specific help not offered in classes. Coaching skills discussed are establishing trust, active listening, questioning, effective communication, creating awareness, designing action plans, goal setting, and accountability. Experience and qualifications helpful for coaches include language teaching, learning, coaching training, and a business mindset. The speaker provides coaching training resources and explains how coaches can develop learner autonomy inside and outside the classroom. Contact information is provided for further discussion.
Stand Out Subject Lines
Length: 1-2 hours | Audience: Beginner to Intermediate
Get their attention – get in the door – and get the response you desire. Whether you are trying to get read, realize revenue, increase your reach or inspire referrals, your subject lines are a key to your success! This fast-paced seminar will take a deeper dive into the mechanics of truly effective subject lines.
To book Sweet Spot Academy & Constant Contact Digital Marketing Workshop visit: http://bit.ly/DigitalMarketingWorkshops
Juan Gonzalez reflects on what he learned from ENC 3250. He discusses learning how to properly format a proposal in Chapter 5 and how important proposals are in business. In Chapter 8, he covers learning how to appropriately call and address meetings and presentations, which are crucial for advancing in a company. For the Module 9 supplement on email newsletters, he learned how to organize information to engage audiences and that most businesses use email newsletters to promote products and bypass mailing expenses.
The document provides tips for effective presentation skills. It discusses the importance of planning, preparing, and practicing a presentation. The key steps include understanding your audience and goals, structuring your presentation with an introduction, content, and conclusion, and using prompts, visual aids, and professional appearance and dress. The document emphasizes rehearsing your presentation multiple times with all materials to feel confident presenting to others.
This document provides tips for developing strong presentation skills. It emphasizes that preparation is key, including understanding the audience and structuring the presentation logically. The presentation should have a clear beginning, middle, and end, with an engaging opening, logical sequencing of content, and a summarizing close. Delivery is also important, with suggestions to move purposefully, vary vocal tones, speak directly to the audience, and be sensitive to nonverbal feedback. Overall, the document stresses the importance of thorough preparation, audience awareness, and effective structure and delivery to give a successful presentation.
This document provides tips for creating an effective resume as a college student or recent graduate. It recommends including coursework, projects, volunteer work, internships and skills. A good resume is tailored to the specific job and company, uses bullet points and action verbs to highlight key experiences and accomplishments, and has no spelling errors. Recruiters look for career objectives, quantitative metrics, leadership experience, and well-rounded interests. The document outlines guidelines for formatting, font size, spelling out acronyms, and getting feedback from others.
IXDA Chicago May 2015 : Recruiting Palace Gate Jennifer HegenerIxDA Chicago
The document provides advice for UX candidates on preparing for and participating in job interviews. It recommends carefully proofreading resumes and work samples, researching the company beforehand, dressing professionally, practicing common interview questions, sending thank you emails after the interview, and following up respectfully if no response is received within a given timeframe.
Join us for a session exploring how BambooHR Performance Management helps people feel supported and connected to your organization while providing management and leadership with opportunities for guidance and employee development.
This document provides tips for beginners on giving PowerPoint presentations. It outlines the four P's of presentation: plan, prepare, practice, and present. Under plan, it notes to consider the purpose of the presentation and audience. Preparation involves researching from various sources. Practice includes doing mock presentations and focusing on vocal techniques, body language, use of space, and timing. The goal is to engage the audience and get them thinking.
This document discusses key aspects of developing effective presentation skills. It emphasizes the importance of preparation, including understanding the audience's needs and structuring the presentation accordingly. The presentation should have a clear beginning, middle, and end, and utilize techniques like stories, questions, or facts to engage the audience. Presenters are advised to practice active delivery through movement, eye contact, and vocal variations, and to carefully consider the use of visual aids. Overall messages are the critical role of preparation, interacting with the audience, and channeling nerves into an effective performance.
Kevin MacDonald presents differences between GIS and Consumer Mapping, different technologies available such as Google Maps, Open Street Maps and Bing for mapping and LBS applications for "Big Data" Maps
Tyson Kingsbury shares his process in creating the #DevTO logo. He's also got some great tips from his experience in the last 2 decades for you young web designers starting out in this field...don't forget "garbage will haunt you
The document discusses using HTML5 and JavaScript to create web applications for mobile devices. It covers various HTML5 features like form input types, placeholder text, viewport settings, detecting orientation changes, geolocation, offline storage, playing HTML5 video, and the pros and cons of developing web apps versus native mobile apps. It also provides some resources for learning more about HTML5 and testing HTML5 browser support.
Shoukry Kattan - Titanium Mobile. Cross Platform Mobile Apps#DevTO
This document compares mobile web, native, and cross-platform/hybrid approaches. It notes that with cross-platform/hybrid approaches, developers can write once using a single language like JavaScript, and deploy to different platforms, reducing development time and costs compared to native or mobile web. It also discusses Titanium, an open source cross-platform framework that uses JavaScript to build native mobile apps, and its benefits like large community and commercial support.
Yuriy Blokhin - Building a Development Platform#DevTO
Yuriy is a platform evangelist at Kik and he shares lessons learned from building the Kik and Clik APIs.
There are thousands of APIs available for every possible need. Given the competition for developer time, API developers are becoming progressively better at making sure that adopters are informed and ready to rock’n'roll within minutes of downloading the SDK.
Katherine Hague - The Decentralize Future of eCommerce#DevTO
Katherine presents ShopLocket and how she's helping everybody sell products online via simple to use widgets that get embedded on another site as if they were a Youtube video or tweet. The next wave of eCommerce will make selling as natural as sharing other media!
Farhan shares his knowledge about attracting GREAT people to work with and then how to keep them. Lots more tips from his experience managing agile teams including processes and tools.
This document provides information about an effective speaking training program. The program teaches executives how to speak confidently and persuasively in presentations and public speaking situations. Participants will learn how to organize presentations, address nerves, and use delivery skills to engage audiences. The training covers fundamentals of speaking, preparation, delivery techniques, and improving impromptu speaking abilities. Attendees will get feedback on recorded speeches and learn to achieve presentation goals through customized skills development.
This document provides tips for preparing for and succeeding in a job interview. It recommends researching the company and understanding the position in order to show how your strengths match the role. The document outlines a strengths-based interview strategy of highlighting 3 strengths and giving examples of how you've demonstrated each. It also provides guidance on answering different types of questions, creating an interview portfolio with evidence of your skills, and sending a thank you letter after the interview. The overall message is that thorough preparation and communicating your strengths and fit for the role are key to interview success.
This document provides an overview of COMM 202: Career Fundamentals taught by Sam. It includes an agenda for the class, an introduction to Sam and their background/experience, expectations for the course, and details on assignments. The main assignment is a skills matrix where students provide examples of their strengths and failures using the STAR method. Students are expected to submit a draft and final skills matrix, which will lay the foundation for future resumes and interviews. Sam emphasizes the importance of professionalism, being yourself, and using the course as an opportunity to enhance one's personal brand.
The document provides guidance on writing effective cover letters and resumes for job applications. It explains that a cover letter should catch the reader's attention, explain interest in the specific job, highlight qualifications that make the applicant suitable for the role, and request an interview. An objective statement in a resume introduces the applicant's goal, while qualifications, education, experience and skills are also included to market the applicant's abilities. Proper formatting, accurate information and proofreading are emphasized to make a good impression on employers.
Interviews are designed to assess a candidate's skills, motivation, and fit for a role or organization. There are two main types of questions: general questions about experience and competencies. Candidates should research the company, prepare examples demonstrating competencies, and practice responses using the STAR model. Assessment centers may involve tests, presentations, group tasks, and interviews to evaluate a range of abilities. Proper preparation, structure, engagement and confidence are keys to success.
Slides from the Jobsearch Masterclass held at La Trobe University on 18 July 2013. Topics covered include researching job opportunities, resume writing, interviews, psychometric testing, networking
Train the Trainer is a course that is specially designed to help trainers improve their skills for training others. In this course, you will understand the various functions and techniques that you can use to maintain the interest of your students and to motivate them.
The document summarizes key points about writing effective resumes and cover letters from a McKinsey mentorship program training. It provides guidance on assessing experiences, highlighting achievements with action-context-result statements, tailoring documents to recruiters, and using examples to support claims. The agenda outlines discussing challenges, improving resumes through structure and content, and improving cover letters by focusing on the employer and supporting statements with evidence.
The document provides guidance on creating an effective resume. It explains that a resume should showcase relevant experience to get an interview. It provides a five-step process for creating a strong resume: 1) define the purpose, 2) reflect on experience, 3) tailor to the position, 4) use an appropriate format, and 5) review the resume thoroughly. It also includes examples of resume sections and formatting.
The document provides tips and guidelines for creating an effective resume as a fresher or student with little work experience. It emphasizes including a strong profile summary that highlights relevant skills, qualifications, and achievements. It also recommends focusing on measurable accomplishments, keywords, and what makes you a good candidate rather than generic statements. The document further provides resume section templates and examples for various careers like data analyst, ECE, mechanical engineering etc. It stresses the importance of concise yet impactful writing, proper formatting and avoiding common mistakes.
The document provides guidance on using career services resources to develop skills, gain experience, and prepare for a successful job search. It recommends starting the career development process early, using campus resources like career advising, resume and interview preparation help, and the online job board. Students who utilize these services are more likely to find internships, co-ops, and jobs. The document reviews the key components of an effective resume and covers categories to include like education, experience, skills, and references.
This document provides an overview of an upcoming presentation on how to give effective presentations. It discusses identifying elements of motivational speeches and dynamic presentations, using stories and visual aids effectively, and adapting speaking styles. The document outlines learning objectives around presentation types, engaging messages and content, illustrations, preparation, and closing techniques. It also discusses establishing credibility and ethos, appealing to emotions or pathos, and using logical reasoning or logos in persuasive arguments. Further, it provides tips on planning, preparing, understanding audiences, setting agendas, and using examples and facts to support recommendations.
This 4-day training program covers various topics related to administration and office management best practices and technologies. The training will cover roles and responsibilities of office professionals, office management and administration skills, communication skills, time management, customer service, and records management. Interactive activities are included to discuss key skills and develop a personal development plan. The document provides an overview and agenda of the training sessions.
This document outlines an agenda for a seminar on perfecting international students' elevator speeches for job searches. It includes:
1. An introduction to the importance of elevator speeches as 30-60 second self-introductions used to get interviews.
2. Steps for creating an effective elevator speech, including including who you are, your objective, relevant experience, and a request for how they can help.
3. Tips for competitively articulating skills and minimizing communication anxiety through awareness of US business customs differences.
4. A practice activity where students record a 30 second self-introduction as if meeting an employer at a career fair.
The document provides information about careers in technology and the job search process. It defines technology careers, lists common job functions such as testing software and managing data. It notes that tech jobs are in high demand due to factors like the need for data management and new innovations. Average entry salaries for tech jobs are $80,000 but can range from $60,000 to $135,000. The document discusses preparing for interviews, including behavioral and technical interviews, and provides tips for networking, resumes, cover letters, and references to help land a tech job.
The document promotes career training and job placement services from New Horizons and Career Coaches LLC. It outlines various IT training programs, certification benefits like increased earnings and job opportunities, hands-on learning experiences, and high job placement rates. Recent graduates provide positive testimonials about completing training programs and securing network engineering jobs with the help of New Horizons.
This document provides advice for joining a startup company and highlights some key differences compared to traditional companies. It notes that startups involve high-intensity work, wearing multiple hats, self-starting initiative, and an unpredictable environment. For those seeking more structure, a startup may not be the best fit. However, for self-motivated learners looking to make an impact, startups offer opportunities to work with new technologies, learn rapidly, and be part of building something new. The document emphasizes demonstrating passion and skills through personal projects to stand out in a competitive startup job market.
The document outlines the mission, vision, timeline, directives, limitations, deliverables, objectives, and scope of a training program at Kforce Global Solutions. The mission is to improve employee performance through training on soft skills and professionalism. The timeline details that each training module will be 30-45 minutes and the performance plans will roll out over 3 months. The limitations include coordinating participant attendance with their managers and introducing the program through team leads and project managers. The objectives are to prepare employees for interviews, improve customer satisfaction, increase attendance, and promote competency.
Open inclusion presentation at Zero project conference Feb2018 Open Inclusion
This document discusses how to embed role-based accessibility skills in businesses through training. It recommends providing awareness training across the full organization and developing deep expertise to deliver tailored, role-based training. It also stresses the importance of ensuring all training is accessible and inclusive, developing communities of excellence, and continuously improving skills through external ideas and inputs. The goal is for staff to understand accessibility issues, have sufficient skills for their roles, and for leadership to further improve processes over time.
Tips and Tricks to Speaker Program Management - ScarlinoScarlino01
Understand how to establish an effective speaker program or make the most of the program you already have in place. Learn how to evaluate events, craft speaker proposals that resonate with conference mangers and keep track of deadlines and details.
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Communications Mining Series - Zero to Hero - Session 1DianaGray10
This session provides introduction to UiPath Communication Mining, importance and platform overview. You will acquire a good understand of the phases in Communication Mining as we go over the platform with you. Topics covered:
• Communication Mining Overview
• Why is it important?
• How can it help today’s business and the benefits
• Phases in Communication Mining
• Demo on Platform overview
• Q/A
Sudheer Mechineni, Head of Application Frameworks, Standard Chartered Bank
Discover how Standard Chartered Bank harnessed the power of Neo4j to transform complex data access challenges into a dynamic, scalable graph database solution. This keynote will cover their journey from initial adoption to deploying a fully automated, enterprise-grade causal cluster, highlighting key strategies for modelling organisational changes and ensuring robust disaster recovery. Learn how these innovations have not only enhanced Standard Chartered Bank’s data infrastructure but also positioned them as pioneers in the banking sector’s adoption of graph technology.
Driving Business Innovation: Latest Generative AI Advancements & Success StorySafe Software
Are you ready to revolutionize how you handle data? Join us for a webinar where we’ll bring you up to speed with the latest advancements in Generative AI technology and discover how leveraging FME with tools from giants like Google Gemini, Amazon, and Microsoft OpenAI can supercharge your workflow efficiency.
During the hour, we’ll take you through:
Guest Speaker Segment with Hannah Barrington: Dive into the world of dynamic real estate marketing with Hannah, the Marketing Manager at Workspace Group. Hear firsthand how their team generates engaging descriptions for thousands of office units by integrating diverse data sources—from PDF floorplans to web pages—using FME transformers, like OpenAIVisionConnector and AnthropicVisionConnector. This use case will show you how GenAI can streamline content creation for marketing across the board.
Ollama Use Case: Learn how Scenario Specialist Dmitri Bagh has utilized Ollama within FME to input data, create custom models, and enhance security protocols. This segment will include demos to illustrate the full capabilities of FME in AI-driven processes.
Custom AI Models: Discover how to leverage FME to build personalized AI models using your data. Whether it’s populating a model with local data for added security or integrating public AI tools, find out how FME facilitates a versatile and secure approach to AI.
We’ll wrap up with a live Q&A session where you can engage with our experts on your specific use cases, and learn more about optimizing your data workflows with AI.
This webinar is ideal for professionals seeking to harness the power of AI within their data management systems while ensuring high levels of customization and security. Whether you're a novice or an expert, gain actionable insights and strategies to elevate your data processes. Join us to see how FME and AI can revolutionize how you work with data!
Maruthi Prithivirajan, Head of ASEAN & IN Solution Architecture, Neo4j
Get an inside look at the latest Neo4j innovations that enable relationship-driven intelligence at scale. Learn more about the newest cloud integrations and product enhancements that make Neo4j an essential choice for developers building apps with interconnected data and generative AI.
HCL Notes and Domino License Cost Reduction in the World of DLAUpanagenda
Webinar Recording: https://www.panagenda.com/webinars/hcl-notes-and-domino-license-cost-reduction-in-the-world-of-dlau/
The introduction of DLAU and the CCB & CCX licensing model caused quite a stir in the HCL community. As a Notes and Domino customer, you may have faced challenges with unexpected user counts and license costs. You probably have questions on how this new licensing approach works and how to benefit from it. Most importantly, you likely have budget constraints and want to save money where possible. Don’t worry, we can help with all of this!
We’ll show you how to fix common misconfigurations that cause higher-than-expected user counts, and how to identify accounts which you can deactivate to save money. There are also frequent patterns that can cause unnecessary cost, like using a person document instead of a mail-in for shared mailboxes. We’ll provide examples and solutions for those as well. And naturally we’ll explain the new licensing model.
Join HCL Ambassador Marc Thomas in this webinar with a special guest appearance from Franz Walder. It will give you the tools and know-how to stay on top of what is going on with Domino licensing. You will be able lower your cost through an optimized configuration and keep it low going forward.
These topics will be covered
- Reducing license cost by finding and fixing misconfigurations and superfluous accounts
- How do CCB and CCX licenses really work?
- Understanding the DLAU tool and how to best utilize it
- Tips for common problem areas, like team mailboxes, functional/test users, etc
- Practical examples and best practices to implement right away
TrustArc Webinar - 2024 Global Privacy SurveyTrustArc
How does your privacy program stack up against your peers? What challenges are privacy teams tackling and prioritizing in 2024?
In the fifth annual Global Privacy Benchmarks Survey, we asked over 1,800 global privacy professionals and business executives to share their perspectives on the current state of privacy inside and outside of their organizations. This year’s report focused on emerging areas of importance for privacy and compliance professionals, including considerations and implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, building brand trust, and different approaches for achieving higher privacy competence scores.
See how organizational priorities and strategic approaches to data security and privacy are evolving around the globe.
This webinar will review:
- The top 10 privacy insights from the fifth annual Global Privacy Benchmarks Survey
- The top challenges for privacy leaders, practitioners, and organizations in 2024
- Key themes to consider in developing and maintaining your privacy program
“An Outlook of the Ongoing and Future Relationship between Blockchain Technologies and Process-aware Information Systems.” Invited talk at the joint workshop on Blockchain for Information Systems (BC4IS) and Blockchain for Trusted Data Sharing (B4TDS), co-located with with the 36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE), 3 June 2024, Limassol, Cyprus.
In his public lecture, Christian Timmerer provides insights into the fascinating history of video streaming, starting from its humble beginnings before YouTube to the groundbreaking technologies that now dominate platforms like Netflix and ORF ON. Timmerer also presents provocative contributions of his own that have significantly influenced the industry. He concludes by looking at future challenges and invites the audience to join in a discussion.
Building Production Ready Search Pipelines with Spark and MilvusZilliz
Spark is the widely used ETL tool for processing, indexing and ingesting data to serving stack for search. Milvus is the production-ready open-source vector database. In this talk we will show how to use Spark to process unstructured data to extract vector representations, and push the vectors to Milvus vector database for search serving.
GraphSummit Singapore | The Art of the Possible with Graph - Q2 2024Neo4j
Neha Bajwa, Vice President of Product Marketing, Neo4j
Join us as we explore breakthrough innovations enabled by interconnected data and AI. Discover firsthand how organizations use relationships in data to uncover contextual insights and solve our most pressing challenges – from optimizing supply chains, detecting fraud, and improving customer experiences to accelerating drug discoveries.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 6DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 6. In this session, we will cover Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI webinar offers an in-depth exploration of leveraging cutting-edge technologies for test automation within the UiPath platform. Attendees will delve into the integration of generative AI, a test automation solution, with Open AI advanced natural language processing capabilities.
Throughout the session, participants will discover how this synergy empowers testers to automate repetitive tasks, enhance testing accuracy, and expedite the software testing life cycle. Topics covered include the seamless integration process, practical use cases, and the benefits of harnessing AI-driven automation for UiPath testing initiatives. By attending this webinar, testers, and automation professionals can gain valuable insights into harnessing the power of AI to optimize their test automation workflows within the UiPath ecosystem, ultimately driving efficiency and quality in software development processes.
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into integrating generative AI.
2. Understanding how this integration enhances test automation within the UiPath platform
3. Practical demonstrations
4. Exploration of real-world use cases illustrating the benefits of AI-driven test automation for UiPath
Topics covered:
What is generative AI
Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath integration with generative AI
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Programming Foundation Models with DSPy - Meetup SlidesZilliz
Prompting language models is hard, while programming language models is easy. In this talk, I will discuss the state-of-the-art framework DSPy for programming foundation models with its powerful optimizers and runtime constraint system.
Unlock the Future of Search with MongoDB Atlas_ Vector Search Unleashed.pdfMalak Abu Hammad
Discover how MongoDB Atlas and vector search technology can revolutionize your application's search capabilities. This comprehensive presentation covers:
* What is Vector Search?
* Importance and benefits of vector search
* Practical use cases across various industries
* Step-by-step implementation guide
* Live demos with code snippets
* Enhancing LLM capabilities with vector search
* Best practices and optimization strategies
Perfect for developers, AI enthusiasts, and tech leaders. Learn how to leverage MongoDB Atlas to deliver highly relevant, context-aware search results, transforming your data retrieval process. Stay ahead in tech innovation and maximize the potential of your applications.
#MongoDB #VectorSearch #AI #SemanticSearch #TechInnovation #DataScience #LLM #MachineLearning #SearchTechnology
GraphRAG for Life Science to increase LLM accuracyTomaz Bratanic
GraphRAG for life science domain, where you retriever information from biomedical knowledge graphs using LLMs to increase the accuracy and performance of generated answers
Full-RAG: A modern architecture for hyper-personalizationZilliz
Mike Del Balso, CEO & Co-Founder at Tecton, presents "Full RAG," a novel approach to AI recommendation systems, aiming to push beyond the limitations of traditional models through a deep integration of contextual insights and real-time data, leveraging the Retrieval-Augmented Generation architecture. This talk will outline Full RAG's potential to significantly enhance personalization, address engineering challenges such as data management and model training, and introduce data enrichment with reranking as a key solution. Attendees will gain crucial insights into the importance of hyperpersonalization in AI, the capabilities of Full RAG for advanced personalization, and strategies for managing complex data integrations for deploying cutting-edge AI solutions.
AI 101: An Introduction to the Basics and Impact of Artificial IntelligenceIndexBug
Imagine a world where machines not only perform tasks but also learn, adapt, and make decisions. This is the promise of Artificial Intelligence (AI), a technology that's not just enhancing our lives but revolutionizing entire industries.
AI 101: An Introduction to the Basics and Impact of Artificial Intelligence
Marc Roginsky - How to Deliver Effective Client-facing Presentations
1. How to Deliver Effective
Client-facing Presentations:
A Crash Course for
Developers
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sue.varty@headstartsol.com
2. Why?
You’ve got your technical talent, skills
and experience – why develop better
“client-facing” / presentation /
communication skills?
• Career Advancement
• In client-facing capacity
• Internal leadership /
management fast-track
• Better recognition for your efforts
• Improved Social Life
3. So What if You Suck at it!!
You don’t need to be an Ace to Ace it!
Here is how:
• Speak from experience
• Passion is contagious
• Stay positive
• Listen, listen, listen
• Gather as much info about your
audience before-hand as possible
4. #1 Key Skill in Effective Public
Speaking for a Techie like you:
The ability to explain technical terms
in everyday language.
• Also, identify the problem you were to solve in
the project
• Point out the objectives that you and the team
were supposed to achieve
• Tell the story of how you did it
• Point out the technical tools and platforms
• Mention the methodologies
• Give kudos to the team
• Explain the results and achievements
• Use metrics
5. Additional Resources to Improve Your
Presentation Skills
• Join a nearby Toastmasters
International Club
(www.toastmasters.org).
• Sign up for a Continuing Education
Course in Delivering Presentations at
your nearest college or university.
• Consider an MA or MBA program.