Being Useful: Careers in Education, Health, Public Service & Social Entrepreneurship

Careers, Life, and Yale

Being Useful:

Careers in Education, Health, Public Service & Social Entrepreneurship

Saturday, October 17th, 2015

9:00 am - 7:00 pm

The inaugural event of Careers, Life, and Yale is a university-wide workshop on careers that "give back," entitled, "Being Useful: Careers in Education, Health, Public Service, and Social Entrepreneurship.” This workshop will feature morning sessions on important life skills - envisioning your career and life, interviewing, understanding business etiquette and being a global citizen. The afternoon will feature a keynote address by former Yale Corporation trustee and founder and CEO of Mercy Corps, Neal Keny-Guyer. His address will be followed by panel discussions in a Q&A format on the four career sectors covered by this workshop. A networking lunch and evening session will allow for one-on-one interactions between students and alumni participants.

For more information visit our website:

http://careerslifeyale.org/being-useful-event/

Agenda:

9:00

Welcome by Workshop Chair (Rahul Prasad) and University VP/Secretary (Kim Goff-Crews)

Morning Breakout Sessions

Life Skills Breakout Sessions:

• Career, Life Vision
• From Backpack to Briefcase - Professional Etiquette
• Live with Matt Meade! Mock Interviews
• Global Citizenship - Life Skills

Life Skills Breakout Sessions (repeat sessions):

• Career, Life Vision
• From Backpack to Briefcase - Professional Etiquette
• Live with Matt Meade! Mock Interviews
• Global Citizenship - Life Skills

Lunch

Student/alumni networking lunch (Q-Club, 221 Church Street)

Afternoon

Keynote - Yale Trustee Neal Keny-Guyer (founder: Mercy Corps)

Afternoon Breakout Sessions

Breakout Session on career sectors

• Education
• Health
• Public Service
• Social Entrepreneurship

Breakout Session on career sectors (repeat sessions)

• Education
• Health
• Public Service
• Social Entrepreneurship

Evening

Networking session with students and alumni (Graduate Club 155 Elm St)

*Cancellation Policy - The final day to cancel is Oct. 12th. Please email Jessica.wright@yale.edu if you need to do so. Also, please be mindful that space is limited. If you're unable to attend after registering and don't let us know, you'll be preventing another student from attending.

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The dress code for this event is smart casual. Please do bring business cards including your name, email, phone number. These are very handy to give to alumni during the networking sessions and will help you create contacts. If you need to create business cards go to the following site where you can create cards for free. www.vistaprint.com