Bernadette De Souza

Taking Charge of Your Career: This presentation will focus on how to manage and plan your career. It will touch on things like self-development, building self-awareness, marketing yourself to get to the next level, and other ideas such as the importance of networking and mentorship It will provide an opportunity for introspection, thinking about transferable skills and other competencies necessary to move ahead. A handy and easy introspection tool will be provided as a take-away for personal follow-up by audience members. A future presentation that would be a natural sequel would be to delve deeper into enabling competencies such as Agile, EI, personal branding, goal-setting and moving into higher positions for career advancement Developing your career Driving your career Investing in yourself Some steps you can take Handy tools How to take accountability for your development This session will equip attendees, including HR professionals, to think about and to develop their careers. It will include useful take-home exercises to help identify aspirations and achieve career goals.

Presentation on what new professionals and newly-certified graduates can expect as they figure out how to launch their first HR career role, what homework is necessary, strategies to develop, pitfalls to avoid, etc. (2) Short moderated panel discussion - recent grads sharing their experiences on successfully securing their first HR dream job, and (3) Moderated breakout sessions (optional, if time permits) - experienced HR professionals addressing specific questions posed by students/new HR professionals.

Presentation on how to bring out the best in yourself, including positivity, techniques and tips to market yourself, thinking and planning processes, holding yourself accountable, goal-setting, celebrating and re-fueling. We will delve deeper into enabling competencies such as emotional intelligence and moving into higher level positions for career advancement. We will discuss how personal branding can make or break your career. How branding can shape your reputation and success. Learning will include branding, maintaining authenticity, building emotional intelligence, strategic visioning for success Learning objectives: Participants will learn how to do deep soul-searching of their own abilities, values and desires, they will discover how to become resourceful, they will learn handy tools for goal-setting - plan, do, achieve, succeed.