ACS Virtual Tech and Employability Skills Half-Day Conference: Career-readiness, how to obtain employment
The ACS Tech and Employability Skills Half-Day Conference is targeted towards, but not limited to, students currently completing their studies. This online event will allow participants to keep abreast of their professional development through several industry-led sessions that will highlight how students and graduates can stand out and succeed in the tech world.
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About this event
The virtual event will consist of 4 sessions where our industry experts will give insights into how to prepare yourself for your first job and how get a job offer after your internship. They will also talk on how to promote yourself, how to be innovative, how to start working on your own personal branding and why it is very important. Further, there will be a session on recruitment process and how it has been changed since last year.
In attending this event you will receive 4 CPD hours if all 4 sessions are attended. You are still required to complete all event reports during the Professional Environments online course to document your participation and key learning outcomes for these professional development events.
ALL 4 SESSIONS MUST BE ATTENDED TO RECEIVE 4 CPD HOURS.
Session #1 5 steps to building a career with a personal branding
Presented by Maria Markman
In this session, our speaker will talk on:
- What personal branding is
- Why it is important
- How to create, build and amplify your personal branding
Session #2 How to blitz your next job interview
Presented by Naren Chellappah
During this session, our speaker will cover following topics:
- The top 10 recruiters screening questions
- How to give the perfect answer to ‘tell me about yourself?’
- How to deal with the ‘salary’ question
- How to manage your body language in interviews
- What top 3 questions to ask at the end of your Interview
Session #3 Kick-start your career in consulting with a graduate program
Presented by Holly Kong and Stuart Clark
In this session, our speakers from Deloitte will talk on:
- Consulting with technical backgrounds
- Deloitte Programs
- How to impress and who get invited back
Session #4 Transitioning from IT Student to IT Professional
Presented by Alice Hu
In this session, our speaker will talk on:
- How to prepare early for your career
- How to understand what you want to do in ICT
- How to choose a career path
Notice for ACS Professional Year Students
When attending virtual events, in order to claim and qualify for the required CPD hours, Professional Year students need to attend the online event in its entirety which will be tracked by the ACS events team. Please ensure you don't minimise your window when attending a virtual event.
If a cloaking software program is used when connecting to an online event, your attendance cannot be recorded and CPD hours cannot be allocated. This does not include the use of VPN. Please ensure, you don't minimise a window with the webinar.
Please allow up to 2 weeks for CPD hours to be allocated to your membership profile.
For the sole purpose of registering you for this event, your registration details have been shared with Redback conferencing. Please refer to the Redback Data Policy at https://www.redbackconnect.com.au/privacy-policy/ for confirmation that the data will not be used for any other purpose outside of this webinar.
Speakers
At the end of 2018, Maria left her corporate career to embark on an entrepreneurial journey, and in 2019 launched Markman Media, personal branding agency for professionals, executives and company directors.
Naren has held senior roles with organisations including Pacific Brands, Swinburne University of Technology, Monash University, the Salvation Army Employment Plus and Melbourne Business School (Melbourne University). He has worked closely with Deans, Professors and senior management teams in the higher education sector as well as General Managers and C-Level executives in the private sector. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Deakin University) and a Master of Commerce (Swinburne University of Technology) and has chaired numerous interview panels and recruited staff for ten years.
Holly has come from a customer-centric background, and works as a conduit between business and technology views to minimise technology impacts and increase the user and customer experience.
Holly has familiarity across all facets of the software development life cycle, combined with a sound understanding of technology impacts on business operations, she employs creative problem-solving skills to identify and deliver solutions that are strategically focused.
Holly actively volunteers in the community, including mentoring and social support for vulnerable parts of our community.
Event Terms & Conditions
Registration
- Payment in full is required the time of booking in order for the registration to be valid.
- To avoid disappointment, ensure you pay for your booking(s) before the registration closing date. Anyone that has not received a confirmation email will not be on the event attendance list and therefore will not be admitted to the event.
- Online registration ends at the time stated on the event details page.
Cancellation and Refund
All cancellations must be processed through the website, a refund will only be considered if it is at least 3 working days prior to the event.
Disclaimer
- ACS reserves the right to change the program at any time. Every effort will be made to ensure a program of equivalent standard and members are updated with changes.
- All dietary requirements are considered, however we cannot guarantee a 100% allergen free environment.
- ACS reserves the right to prohibit entry or eject any person from an ACS event based on behaviour deemed inappropriate by ACS staff, its agents and/or others working under its authority.
- Filming or streaming by attendees is not permitted. If an attendee is found to be doing so they will be asked to leave the event immediately and further action may be taken.
- Photography and/or filming may take place during this event, by accepting these terms you consent to this. Please let a member of ACS know if you do not want your picture taken.
COVID-19 Event Attendance Compliance
By registering to attend an ACS in person event you are agreeing to the below terms and conditions
- If an attendee is displaying flu or cold like symptoms in the days leading up to the event and therefore is not able to attend, ACS will refund the registration fee.
- If an attendee comes to an event and is displaying flu or cold like symptoms they will be asked to leave
- We ask all ACS members to respect the social distancing guidelines, if an attendee repeatedly disregards these guidelines, they may be asked to leave
- ACS reserves the right to cancel the event within 24 hours' notice if either the speaker or the event host has advised us that they are exhibiting flu or cold like symptoms
- All attendees must provide a valid phone number and email address to be contacted on if there is reason to notify about a possible COVID-19 exposure
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