ACS NSW Young Professionals Half-Day Conference
This special inaugural event for NSW Young Professionals is aimed towards, but not limited to, students currently who are completing their studies. It will provide participants the opportunity to keep abreast with their Professional Development through the facilitation of three separate workshops, highlighting ways in which you can stand out and succeed as a skilled professional.
Member $20.00
Member-Concessional $20.00
Non-Member $40.00
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About this event
Transiting from a student to an IT professional can be quite a roller coaster ride. It can be a road full of hurdles and sometime it seems even worse if you are an international student.
Putting visa regulations aside, there are a lot of myths surrounding the success stories of how local students seem to go through this transition stage rather unscathed.
This session is going to bust some of the myths about local student success factors and provide some background to non-local student the reasons behind the success stories.
Session 2: Vendor Certification or Academic Qualification? Why not both?
Many employers struggle to find talent with the right combination of hard and soft skills. As an individual, what skills should you be looking for that will meet the needs of your future employers?
It's one thing to hold a degree or point to acquired knowledge of IT concepts and theories, but it's quite another to be able to prove, in practice, your command of technology and leverage it to make business more efficient.
This presentation will look at role of Vendor Certifications in the ICT industry, ICT Certification pathways and the emergence of Micro-Credentialing in gaining recognition for skills you will develop throughout your career.
We also look at the importance of Academic Qualifications and Vendor Certifications complement your undergraduate degree.
Session 3: Skills & Mindset required to Secure Your Next Job or Contract
Where information is a commodity item, how can you stand out as a knowledge expert? How can you differentiate yourself and ensure that people see you as a valuable product? Whether you’re an employee, contractor or business owner, today your mindset and actions must change if you are to keep yourself marketable and specifically if you are looking to enter a new market.
Technology has enabled many barriers to fall when entering new markets or creating new products, allowing greater speed, agility and reduced costs. As a skilled professional you must now compete in a global market and remove a completely different set of barriers if you are to be successful. You must address the internal barriers that stand in the way of changing your mindset and associated actions. These skills are critical to you as individual entering the job market or moving in your career.
In this interactive session, you will learn how to:
• Identify conscious and unconscious barriers to success.
• Pinpoint myths and unquestioned assumptions of what you’re capable of.
• Utilise proven tools to develop a positive self-talk and mind-shift change.
• Develop new habits that support your conscious intentions.
• Become more self-reflective mindset enabling you to adapt to change.
• Apply the Communicate31 3C Model for personal and professional success.
Speakers
Angela has since held various BA roles for different financial institutions, including her latest role at Commonwealth Bank. This included her tenure at Suncorp where she was introduced to Agile methodology and eventually took up a role as an Iteration Manager.
Angela was a member of ACS Young IT Committee between 2014 to 2016 and had organised many Young IT events including the Graduate series that catered specifically for Young IT looking to apply for a graduate role after university.
In addition the to information system qualification, Angela holds a bachelor degree in Economics from the University of Sydney majoring in Government and International Relations and is also currently a Director of a start-up within the Entertainment Industry dealing with K-Pop.
ICT Educator, Public Speaker and Business Development Executive, Henry has over 25 years’ experience in all facets of the ICT education and training sector - both locally and abroad.
As an educator, Henry has designed and implemented a number of programs with colleges and universities across the region to help align industry certification into core school curriculum
As a public speaker and writer, Henry has been an industry speaker at many I.T conferences and has spoken on topics such as Cloud Computing, Security, Identity Management& Green I.T. Henry has also authored a number of articles which have been published in industry magazines.
In business development, Henry has been successful in growing and developing new certification opportunities in both domestic and international markets.
Before joining ACS, Henry has worked for multiple global companies including Novell, CompTIA and Telstra. Henry holds an B.Sc at Deakin University and is MACs (Snr) CP.
Her latest book, 'Communicate: How to say what needs to be said, when it needs to be said, in the way it needs to be said', includes contributions from CEOs/leaders across three continents with the foreword written by a former presidential advisor in the US Whitehouse.
She was awarded Fellowship of both the Australian Human Resources Institute and the British Psychological Society for her contribution to these professions.
She runs a number of public and in-house programs, including a 16-month communications/leadership program entitled the Communicate Accountability System, which teaches individuals and leaders to be personally and professionally successful.
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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.
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