Alumni Association Career Week: Tuesday

Location: Virtual Event

Please join your Alumni Association for our annual Career Week, a professional development and career enhancing series. These sessions will provide you with relevant, meaningful, professional development and career driven content while highlighting career resources.

There is programming for everyone -- across career sectors, levels, affinities, industries as well as by UMD schools and colleges. We even have something for our members.

Find a program (or two!) that fits your needs and helps you conquer, steer and advance your career with the Alumni Association.

Tuesday, Jan. 25

11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. EST

Addressing Bias in the Workplace 

• Cindy Joseph, Founder and CEO of CEE Suite
• Join the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences' Alumni Chapter Board (BSOS ACB) for an interactive diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) workshop, Addressing Bias in the Workplace. This workshop will be professionally facilitated by the Cee Suite, LLC, whose DEI and leadership learning pathway create modern and sustainable solutions for building inclusive talent practices and organizations. 

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1 p.m. - 4 p.m. EST

The Incomplete Leader: Defining Your Personal Leadership and Building a Team That Complements Your Strengths 

• Danielle Harlan Ph.D. ’03, Founder & CEO of the Center for Advancing Leadership and Human Potential
• How we approach leadership is fundamentally rooted in who we are as human beings. While management skills and professional experience are helpful, the ability to recognize and harness the best aspects of our personalities in order to inspire and empower others is essential to our success as leaders. So, too however, is the ability to realize that even the most skillful and seasoned leaders have weaknesses. No matter what their role or position, the best leaders know how to build teams that complement their strengths and fill otheir gaps.
• Drawing on her bestselling leadership book, The New Alpha: Join the Rising Movement of Influencers and Changemakers Who are Redefining Leadership, in this interactive and reflective workshop, Danielle Harlan, PhD (GVPT/BMGT '03) will walk you through the process of defining your personal leadership identity – the particular combination of values, strengths, and skills that make you unique - and show you how to identify the team members that will best complement you. 

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3 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. EST

Jumpstart Your Job Search 

• Linda LeNoir, Assistant Director; Pamela Allen, Program Director; Lauren Meier, Program Director, University Career Center, University of Maryland 
• Are you a recent alumni?  Are you job searching? Are you needing direction on what to do?  If so -- this workshop is for YOU! In this session, come learn the BASICS about:

1. key items for an effective resume; 
2. elements necessary for a successful job search strategy; ...and 
3. Netiquette, the proper behavior to find a job in an online or virtual environment. 

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3 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. EST

Power Tools for Living Workshop: Empower 2022 

• Austin Walker '11, Life Coach at R.A.W Coaching
• What if you could create what you truly yearn for and do so in a manner that was aligned to your highest commitments? I invite you to a workshop experience that will both identify who you are at your highest and greatest self and empower you to relate to yourself as such while you progress through your goals. Through this process, we'll also distinguish your life purpose and create the next year of your life from this intentional and empowered place.
• This workshop is based on ontological coaching tools and methodology designed to move you forward in life. I encourage you to lean into the possibility and discover what is available on the other side of comfort and predictable behaviors. 

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4 p.m. - 5 p.m. EST

Rita B. Leahy Doctoral Career Series: Exploring Maryland's Biotech Industry

• Dietrich Ruehlmann, PhD '05, Director of Marketing and Business Development for Aventusoft LLC; Berin Parambethu Varghese, PhD '21, Scientist at GlaxoSmithKline, Julia Greenfirle, PhD '19, Research Chemist at NIST
• Biotechnology harnesses cellular and biomolecular processes to develop technologies and products that help improve our lives and the health of our planet. Maryland is home to one of the largest life sciences clusters in the nation, 3,400 life sciences companies, the NIH, the FDA, and the University of Maryland. This session, offered by the Graduate School,  features UMD doctoral alumni working in Maryland's biotech industry. Learn about their work and expand your network. 

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5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. EST

Virtual Wealth Management Career Panel

• Catherine Galgano '83, Complex Manager at Morgan Stanley, Eric Friedman '95, Financial Advisor at Ameriprise, Emma Cohen '22, Intern at Morgan Stanley,Jason Friedman '00, Financial Advisor at Morgan Stanley, Emmanuel Onyeukwu '15, Wealth Manager at Goldman Sachs
• Join us for a virtual panel with all Maryland Alumni in which we will discuss Wealth Management, Careers, Job Paths, etc. Our Panelists are from different firms, with an extensive background and different Wealth Management Positions.  

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6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. EST

Terps Helping Terps: Young alum from the DMV to NYC

• This Career Week event, sponsored by Alumni Networks in the I-95 corridor from the DMV to NYC, is geared toward recent grads (2019-2021).  The virtual program will start with two short presentations on resume writing and interviewing.  Then we’ll break out into separate “rooms” where you can talk to fellow alums who work in specific industries/professions.  We envision an open forum to discuss any and all types of career issues and questions.  Maybe you can even make a connection or find a new opportunity.  

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7 p.m.  - 8 p.m. EST

Navigating Careers in Government Contracting

• Evette Lewis '93, District Sales Coordinator, The MWE Partnership; Frank Goertner EMBA ‘17, Director, Federal & Veteran Affairs, Co-director, Technology Management Program, Robert H. Smith School of Business; Tom Johnson, President of Business Research Services and Publisher of Set-Aside Alert; Jamie L. Morton, Senior Contracting Officer, Architect of the Capitol
• The Maryland Smith Alumni Chapter Board invites you to participate in their next event in the Unlocking Experiences event series.
• Smith and UMD alumni, students and business owners are invited to explore the world of government contracting. Join us for an introductory look at how the various parts of government contracting work with each. Our panelists occupy a different facet of the govcon sphere, but have carved out a niche in their domain. 

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For additional information about this event:
Contact University Career Center & President's Promise at ucc-recruiting@umd.edu