Professional Development Event Extra Credit
Professor Kevin Ketels
For extra credit, attend a professional development event. The format can be an industry speaker sponsored by the school or a professional association, WSU career fair, or resume review. Five extra credit points per event, fifteen points maximum per semester. Participation must take place during the semester.
Student name: ______________________________________ Course Number: __________________
Section Number: ________ Event name: Career Services Jobs Search Skills Workshop
Event date: June 4th 2020 Event location: ________________________________________
Event confirmation: Include photo of the event AND photo selfie of you in front of event signage or visible event activity. Insert pictures into word doc. Submit completed form with photos in Canvas. Submissions will NOT be accepted without photo proof of attendance.
Event summary – please describe the event and format. If professional development/learning, summarize the content, speaker name, and what you learned from the speaker. If a career networking event, please list companies that you met. How did the meetings go? For full credit, please make your response, ROBUST, and fill all space below.
The speaker of the event was Maureen Johnson from the Career Service Internship Coordinator. The ___________________________________________________________________________________
speaker began by defining networking as the process of interacting to develop contacts socially or
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professionally and exchanging information. She later explained on how to identify, build and sustain,
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strengthen and changes in networks . She further explained the networking platforms like linked In.
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I learned from the speaker how to build my professional networks and maintain them. Additionally, I
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learned that reciprocity sustains the networks and active engagement increases my visibility in networks.
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