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    Alumni Engagement Officer

    519.661.2111 x80568

    sarsena6@uwo.ca

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    Using AI in Your Career

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    Using AI in Your Career Plan

    Learn how AI can help you in the job search and recruitment process with specific tools and approaches.

    Job Searching and Resumes

    Video

    Breaking Through the Mid-Career Stall

    Learn how to gain greater recognition at work using simple communication techniques that can help position you for key projects and promotions.

    Career Transition

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    Speak Kindly, You're Listening

    Develop strategies to tame your inner critic to transform it into a constructive force that nurtures your growth.

    Industry Topics Interpersonal Skills

    Video

    Industry Insights: Sport

    Connect with fellow alumni and friends from the professional sports industry who reveal their career stories, insider knowledge on what it takes to be successful in the sports industry and explore the varied paths that lead to success.

    Industry Topics

    Video

    Networking for Career Acceleration

    Access professional development tools designed to help you accelerate your career.

    Networking Job Searching and Resumes
    Accessing the Hidden Job Market

    Video

    Accessing the Hidden Job Market

    Gain key strategies for building your professional network to help access the hidden job market.

    Career Transition Networking Job Searching and Resumes

    Video

    Create an Effective Personal Brand from Scratch

    Learn how to build an effective brand with dynamic photography, strong positioning, and visual components like logos, typography and colour systems.

    Career Transition Industry Topics

    Video

    The Job Closer

    Solve the toughest challenges in your job search with a proven approach.

    Interview Skills Job Searching and Resumes

    Video

    Industry Insights: Sustainability

    Western and the Ivey Business School present an insightful conversation to help new to mid-career alumni understand what it takes to be successful in the sustainability industry.

    Industry Topics
    Industry Insights: Technology

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    Industry Insights: Technology

    Western and the Ivey Business School present an insightful conversation to help new to mid-career alumni understand what it takes to be successful in the technology industry.

    Industry Topics

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    2-Hour Job Search

    Land your first interview with a research-backed framework.

    Career Transition Networking Job Searching and Resumes

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    Choose Possibility: Take Risks and Thrive (Even When You Fail)

    Hear a fresh, new perspective on decision-making and risk-taking for anyone afraid of making the wrong career choices.

    Career Transition Transferable Skills

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    Entrepreneurship + Innovation

    Learn from an exceptional group of purple and proud entrepreneurs and innovators as they speak about their personal journies, approaches to creativity, experiences founding companies and scaling them.

    Industry Topics
    Dynamic LInkedIn Profiles

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    Dynamic LinkedIn Profiles

    Master LinkedIn to highlight your unique brand and attract the right opportunities.

    Networking Job Searching and Resumes
    Advanced Resumes

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    Advanced Resumes

    Transform your resume into a powerful marketing tool to stand out among your toughest competition.

    Career Transition Job Searching and Resumes
    Communicate with influence

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    Communicate with Influence

    Using neuroscience, learn how to deliver the right information at the right time to engage your audience.

    Interpersonal Skills Transferable Skills
    Design Thinking

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    Design Thinking: A Creative Way To Solve Problems

    Learn how design thinking can stimulate innovation and generate new possibilities.

    Transferable Skills

    Article

    Why you can't get a job

    Many job candidates do all the right things and still it’s a daunting task to get a new job.

    Job Searching and Resumes

    Article

    What comes after hello?

    We live in a digital world, but face to face conversation hasn’t lost its importance.

    Interpersonal Skills Networking

    Article

    Winning cover letters

    Yes, you need one! Tips and tricks on creating a cover letter.

    Job Searching and Resumes

    Article

    Professional outreach tips for new grads

    Jennifer Urbanski, BMOS'09, on transparency, honesty and authenticity in life and in business.

    Interpersonal Skills Networking

    Article

    Four tips to network your way to the top

    Alumni Career Coach Sarah Dawson shares her best networking tips.

    Networking

    Article

    Defining your value proposition for a targeted job search

    Send a clear and convincing message to employers that you’re the one they need.

    Job Searching and Resumes

    Article

    Five tips for making a career change

    Has your career lost it’s luster? Maybe it’s time to make a change.

    Career Transition

    Article

    Acing the interview with your two minute personal profile

    Nothing is more valuable than distinguishing yourself from others, especially during an interview.

    Interview Skills

    Article

    Thinking of working with a job recruiter?

    How a recruiter can help you target your search and find the perfect job for you.

    Career Transition Job Searching and Resumes

    Article

    Navigating career transition

    As you navigate transition, it may be helpful to reconnect with what you are really wanting for yourself in your career and life and adopt a bias toward action.

    Career Transition

    Article

    Accomplishment statements

    Packaging your skills and experiences to show off your strengths.

    Interview Skills Job Searching and Resumes

    Article

    Optimize your job search and get noticed

    Are you making the most of your job search efforts?

    Job Searching and Resumes

    Article

    How to shine during your next interview

    The key to interview success is to be a great storyteller.

    Interview Skills

    Staff Contact

    Steve Arsenault

    Alumni Engagement Officer

    519.661.2111 x80568

    sarsena6@uwo.ca