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Are you having trouble deciding what you want to do with the rest of your life? Do people often ask you what career you want and you have trouble answering the question? 🤔

If you feel stuck in your decision or feel uncertain about what qualities, companies and industries you should be looking into, that might mean you’re having trouble determining how to match your personal values to your work. 

Your values not only create a framework for how you like to work and interact with others, but it’s also a good indicator of what kind of work will feel most fulfilling for you.

In this Career Development Workshop, Localized Career Coach-in-Residence, Iyad Uakoub, will demonstrate how you can identify your personal values and use them to shape your career objectives. 

A good introduction at the beginning of an interview will make a great first impression on your interviewer and will help you to set a confident tone going into your interview. 

When you come across as confident, clear and interested in the job you’re interviewing for you will give the interviewer more reasons to remember you and recommend you for the next rounds or steps. 

In this career development workshop Iyad Uakoub will break down the introduction process, and goals, and help you to create a positive and simple pitch you can use to set the tone. In this workshop we will be going over the main goals of the introduction including: 

• 👉 Showing you have the ability and desire to do the work
• 👉 Showing that you’re going to fit in with the company culture
• 👉 Showing that you are easy to work with 
• 👉 Showing that you won’t quit shortly after being hired

Master your introduction with Iyad Uakoub.

Are you planning to work in the engineering or information technology (IT) space? Are you someone who works really well behind a computer but has trouble telling the story of the value you can bring to companies? 

This career development workshop with Iyad Uakoub focuses on the proper ways to develop your CV and cover letter and how to tailor your experiences and skill sets to the roles that you’re applying to. Learn about: 

• ✅ How to position yourself for the engineering job that you want 
• ✅ How to tell a story in your cover letter
• ✅ How to stand out as a technical candidate
• ✅ What you should be mindful of when applying for engineering roles

IT & engineering roles require a unique set of soft skills and technical skills that don’t always translate directly into your CV or resume. 🤔 This can make it complicated to land a job, even when you know you are capable of doing the work, especially if you don’t know how to position yourself to stand apart from the other candidates.

Are you considering a career shift into a new industry? Are you looking to increase your chances of landing a job with a big consulting company? Are you considering a career in academia or research? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you should consider a Masters Degree.

ASU online program enables you to pursue a world-class Masters Degree without the need to commute to campus, travel abroad, or quit your job. The design and delivery of the programs enabled learners to access material, resources, and connect with instructors and other learners wherever they are.

In this session you will:

• Learn about ASUs programs and requirements
• Interact with ASU’s student recruiter, Ahmed Ali, to ask any questions you may have about ASU
• Hear from a student discussing his journey and life at ASU
• Learn about the Master in Healthcare Management & Delivery program

Product Managers gather user data and identify their needs and the larger business objectives that their products or features will fulfill. They are responsible for defining success criteria, creating product roadmaps, and building a team to turn new features or products into a reality.

Product Management is also one of the highest in-demand jobs today. If’re interested in joining this field, join the conversation with Tolu Alabi, Product Manager at Stripe, to learn how you can get started today.

Some of the topics that will be covered:

• What does it mean to be a Product Manager and what are the different types of Product Managers?
• How to start a career in Product Management and what are the essential skills?
• Typical day for Product Managers and day-to-day tasks
• Industry trends & insights
• What do recruiters look for when hiring fresh talents?
• CVs, cover letters and interview tips

About Tolu:

Tolu is passionate about the ways technology simplifies and elevates the way we experience the world. In pursuit of this passion, she is currently working on payment innovations at Stripe.

Prior to Stripe, Tolu was a PM at Amazon, and before that she was enrolled at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. Before Stanford, she developed trading execution algorithms for Goldman Sachs’ Foreign Exchange desk.

Women might be underrepresented in tech but did you know that in firms where 30% of the leadership are women there’s actually a 15% increase in profitability?

Women hold less than 1/3 of leadership roles in tech which means there’s a huge opportunity for roughly half the population to propel forward. So what are the major challenges? How can women harness their strengths and breakthrough barriers? How can male counterparts help to elevate female leadership, and why does it matter?

Soulaima Gourani and Margot Lee Schmorak are two incredible CEOs breaking barriers, pushing the boundaries of innovation and driving growth in their prospective companies.

In this session, moderated by Salma Elbarmwi VP of Marketing at Localized, these founders will discuss their challenges and successes as females in tech. They’ll share their journeys, advice and pathways to getting to the positions they are in now. They’ll talk about mindset and the grit that it takes to grow a business and how to network with the right people.

In this session we’ll discuss:

• Women in leadership: The mindset
• How to network with the right people and the importance of community
• How to set yourself up for success
• How to maintain a balance between your career and your life

While Cryptocurrency and NFTs are known for their investment opportunities and the chances of making large profits, they’re also creating a lot of employment opportunities. Companies and organizations that are issuing cryptocurrencies and NFTs need to hire designers, engineers, product managers, marketing and sales professionals, and more.

In this session with Tudor Holotescu, CEO at Headstarter, a project accelerator and Launchpad of the Hedera Hashgraph Ecosystem, and Founder of Crypto Community Builders, we will discuss everything crypto; careers, startups, traders, and designers communities. Join this session to learn about:

Career opportunities in the Cryptocurrency and NFTs industries and how to enter the industry How to search and find projects to invest in How to create and launch your own NFT projects.

Are you an aspiring entrepreneur with an idea to solve regional and international problems? Join us for this interactive session with our Entrepreneurship Expert, Olamiposi Ekuma, Pram Manager, Genesys Startup Boost at Genesys Tech Hub, to learn how you can turn your idea into an investment-worthy product. Some of the topics that will be covered:

• Going from an idea to a prototype and a product
• Opportunities & challenges for Entrepreneurs in emerging markets
• How to validate your idea, secure early adopters, and gain traction
• What Investors look for when evaluating a Startup
• What to include in a Pitch or an Investor Deck
• How to value your startup
• How to negotiate equity with Investors

About Olamiposi Ekuma:

Olamiposi is a Business Manager at Genesys Tech Hub. She coordinates the Genesys Startup Boost which is designed to groom nascent tech enabled businesses to scale and become industry leaders.

Having built a solid background in the ICT and Business space, Ola understands all the details of running and growing startups from scratch. With 4 years of experience in startup mentoring as well as running a startup accelerator, Ola has contributed to the scaling of over 25 startups, recording multiple exits while at it.

As the head of inclusion programs, Ola has a huge passion for learning and mastering new things, she’s even more passionate about giving back. This has inspired her to plan and successfully execute a number of learning initiatives specifically targeted at females who want to start a career in tech. On any other day, she’s the most goofy person you would find in the room

Are you a creative person looking to use your talents to influence the corporate world? Are you someone who likes to come up with unique ideas, work with their hands or maybe just thinks differently? Sometimes it can feel like it’s impossible to connect your passion or hobby with your full-time job.

In this session, Aid Murad talks about how she tied her skills in the business world with her passion and interests in the creative industry. She’ll dive into details about how she turned her hobby into a full-time business, about the challenges that come from creating art for fun and doing so for income and the advice she wishes someone had given her when she was starting out. 

Discover more about Aida Murad, the self-taught Arab-American entrepreneur based in NYC. Learn about her mission to help people feel seen, heard and loved through art, and why it matters.

This is a LIVE session which means you’ll have the unique chance to ask questions and get answers directly from Aida. 

About Aida Murad: 

Aida Murad is a self-taught Arab-American NYC based Spiritual Artist whose mission is to help people feel seen, heard and loved through art. She paints with her fingers due to a past trauma. It took her a long time to embrace the ‘Artist’ label but now she knows this is who she is. She became an Artist because she had Rheumatoid Arthritis. They say the darker the shadow the brighter the light. Her Rheumatoid Arthritis was her shadow. Her art is her light and serves as a light for others. When she was 20 years old, she was diagnosed with her shadow and, subsequently, semi paralyzed for 4.5 years. She was bed bound. When she was in a place of suffering, she turned to art to help her heal. However, she didn’t paint with paint brushes, she painted only with her hands to demonstrate to herself and to the world that she is not damaged, and this dysmorphia will not define her. 

Are you an aspiring entrepreneur? Do you have an impact-driven idea that could solve regional and global challenges? Join Mercy, Maggie and Erna for an interactive session to learn:

• Introduction to the Halcyon incubation program
• What is social entrepreneurship
• How to develop a problem-solving mindset 
• Defining the value proposition and customer pain points 101 
• How to understand your market and potential customers
• Live Q&A from the audience

This session is organized by Halcyon, a community supporting impact-driven businesses and their founders through space, community, and access. Their programs offer fellowships for social entrepreneurs and funding vehicles to help them scale their ventures.

About Maggie Goff:

Maggie (she/her) believes anyone, anywhere, from any background can change the world with an innovative idea and the right support. In her role as Program Coordinator, she supports day to day operations of the incubator program with current fellows and alumni, and the application process. She also writes grants and co-authors the Social Enterprise Ecosystem Report. Prior to joining Halcyon, she was a Research Analyst at Urban Institute’s Justice Policy Center; where she conducted program evaluations related to reentry, work readiness for returning citizens, and victim services for incarcerated women. She holds a Master’s degree in Justice Studies from Arizona State University and a Bachelor’s degree in Youth Advocacy, a major she self-designed at Manhattanville College. When she’s not working, she can be found doing yoga, reading, or playing with her mischievous cat.

About Mercy Erhiawarien:

At Halcyon, Mercy supports the daily operations, design and implementation of Halcyon domestic and international intensives ensuring that Halcyon’s Fellows have the resources that they need to thrive. Her passion is to mobilize people to transform and impact their own communities. She is a social innovator and organizer with a mission to broker partnerships to strategically address development challenges by enhancing development focused organizational capacity in sub-Saharan Africa and mobilizing others to work towards African led social impact in Africa. Prior to Halcyon, Mercy worked as an international development and project management practitioner, with her field experience spanning Africa and the United States. In doing so, she leveraged her extensive experience to help build programs, policies, and processes that help organizations raise funds and improve program performance. Mercy has a MPhil in Public Policy from Cape Town University in South Africa and a B.A. in International Development from Queen’s University in Canada.

About Erna Redzepagic

Erna’s passion for using business principles to solve social and environmental issues brought her to Halcyon. She joined the team to expand the recruitment efforts of talented social entrepreneurs across the world and support their journey after the fellowship.

Before joining Halcyon’s team, she worked in the philanthropic sector managing corporate partnerships and working on CSR communication campaigns. She holds a master’s degree in social entrepreneurship from the University of Southern California and has worked as a business developer at a startup created at USC, which provides access to vital information for displaced people. She is particularly interested in ideas that support minorities & displaced people and provide them with opportunities to thrive.

She is originally from Bosnia and Herzegovina and has lived in five countries. She enjoys connecting with people from all walks of life and exploring new countries. In her spare time, you can find her creating digital art, reading thriller novels, playing tennis, and searching for new stand-up shows in D.C.