Workshop: "Branding - Effective Communication Skills"
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Target Audience: Graduate Students and researchers
Session format: Interactive seminar
Facilitator: Bob Dolan, Asst Director Career Services MIT Postdoctoral Scholars
Short Description:
Communication goes beyond verbal skills which are important to the success of any job seeker. To Brand yourself as a professional, you must deliver a consistent message in a Written, Verbal, and Virtual manner. As students and begin to look for positions in engineering and science, both in academia and industry, they must be aware of how their nonverbal communication skills impact their possibility of finding employment opportunities. Learning how to maximize the use of one's verbal and nonverbal communication skills is a powerful tool to help one achieve professional success, and a critical component for the future.
Registration is required. The deadline is October 3rd.
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About the facilitator:
Bob provides career counseling and professional development workshops for the Postdoctoral Scholars program at MIT. He has held both full-time and seasonal roles at MIT since 2005 and has served the undergraduate, graduate and alumni programs. From 2008-2016 he delivered leadership and career programming for a MIT affiliated Master’s program at Zaragoza Institute in Spain.
He is a Certified Job Search and Career Transition Consultant with experience in the field of Career Management since 2001. Before joining academia, Bob had a private Career Consulting practice and worked with clients across multiple industries, as well as providing career consulting services for a global Career Management firm. As a hiring manager for over twenty years, Bob brings a unique blend of "real world" and career services expertise to his clients who spanned all industries and positions ranged from company presidents to administrative staff.
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