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    Steve Arsenault

    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.

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    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.

    Professional Personal Interest

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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.

    Professional Personal Interest

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    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.

    Professional

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    Networking for Career Acceleration

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

    Professional
    Accessing the Hidden Job Market

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    Accessing the Hidden Job Market

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

    Professional

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    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.

    Professional Personal Interest

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    The Job Closer

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

    Professional

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    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.

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    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.

    Professional

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    2-Hour Job Search

    Land your first interview with a research-backed framework.

    Professional

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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.

    Professional Personal Interest

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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.

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    Dynamic LInkedIn Profiles

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    Dynamic LinkedIn Profiles

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

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    Advanced Resumes

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    Advanced Resumes

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

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    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.

    Professional Personal Interest
    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.

    Professional Personal Interest

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    Acing the interview with your two minute personal profile

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

    Professional

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    Winning cover letters

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

    Professional

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    Defining your value proposition for a targeted job search

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

    Professional

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    Accomplishment statements

    Packaging your skills and experiences to show off your strengths.

    Professional

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    Best. Resume. Ever.

    Tips for writing a resumé that stands out.

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    Optimize your job search and get noticed

    Are you making the most of your job search efforts?

    Professional

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    Five tips for making a career change

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

    Professional

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    Professional outreach tips for new grads

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

    Professional

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    How to shine during your next interview

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

    Professional

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    Thinking of working with a job recruiter?

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

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    Four tips to network your way to the top

    Alumni Career Coach Sarah Dawson shares her best networking tips.

    Professional

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    What comes after hello?

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

    Professional Personal Interest

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    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.

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    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.

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    Staff Contact

    Steve Arsenault

    Alumni Engagement Officer

    519.661.2111 x80568

    sarsena6@uwo.ca