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LEARN & GROW Series: 2018 Session IV

Emerging Careers: First Steps
A Framework for Finding Your Career Path

How does someone step into an “emerging career”?

This session focuses on the steps you will need to take to stay relevant as careers emerge and disappear, whether that means transforming your current position, obtaining a new position in your current company, or helping to create a position new to the entire industry. In this session, you will learn ways to evaluate opportunities available to you in your current position, and ways to seek out new opportunities for careers that may not yet exist. In this working session, you will be asked to think through your own career path and make a plan for advancement.

Saturday, October 13, 2018
10:00 am – 10:30 am  Registration
10:30 am – 1:00 pm  Program

As seats are limited, register by October 9, 2018

Please join us on October 13 for our fourth session of the L&G series – “Emerging Careers: First Steps – A Framework for Finding Your Career Path”.

Featuring Panelists

Kelly Perez-Vergara is the Assistant Vice President of Institutional Research at Walsh College and is pursuing a PhD in Educational Leadership from Oakland University. Kelly has more than five years’ experience researching emerging careers for, and has published and presented at national conferences on how colleges can plan programming to meet employer demand. She was also named a winner of the 2015 Detroit Crain’s 20 in the 20’s for this research…      Read more

Post Event:

National Association of Asian American Professionals-Detroit Chapter (NAAAP Detroit) presented Emerging Careers: A Framework for Finding Your Career Path, on October 13, 2018. In the spirit of NAAAP, we utilize our members to share their expertise. As so with this event, members Kelly Perez-Vargara and Yahang Zhang, gave a great seminar on creating your own path in our everchanging culture where we face elimination of jobs and the reality of emerging careers due to advances in technology…

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