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Building Your Professional Network

Building Your Professional Network. Gilda Garretón Oracle co-founder of Latinas in Computing Elizabeth Bautista Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. Why a Professional Network. “If you do good research or work, fame, funding, promotions, and graduate students follow”. Professional Networking.

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Building Your Professional Network

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  1. Building Your Professional Network Gilda Garretón Oracle co-founder of Latinas in Computing Elizabeth Bautista Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

  2. Why a Professional Network “If you do good research or work, fame, funding, promotions, and graduate students follow”

  3. Professional Networking • Making professional connections and using them wisely • Systematically seeking out and becoming acquainted with people in the service of your career/professional goals • Applying different strategies depending on context settings

  4. Networking Establishes Your Brand Source for new ideas, collaborations and feedback Invites to talks, Job interviews, Program Committees Letters of recommendation Internships, Papers accepted, Citations

  5. Networking is a skill Prepare for an event Elevator Speech Offer to Help Networking Set Goals Talk to those around you

  6. Practice this new Networking Skill

  7. Deliberately Target Your Networking Established Researchers Alumni Business Leaders Technical Advisors People with Possible Job Opportunities Contemporaries

  8. Networking is a Relationship Write down next Steps Keep in Touch! Exchange giving talks

  9. Lessons from OUR Experience

  10. CRA-W Computer Research Association Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research Mission increase the participation and success of women in computing research www.cra-w.org

  11. Industry/government Graduate Students Undergraduates Academic careers CRA-W Programs Undergrads: UndergraduateResearch Experiences Undergrads: Distinguished lecture role models Grad Cohort: group mentoring of grad students Grad Students: Discipline Specific Research workshops PhD Researchers: group mentoring of early & mid career @ CMW, CAPP, Hopper & Tapia www.cra-w.org

  12. What should you do next? Completethe evaluation survey Apply your new knowledge Shareyournew knowledge at your institution Follow up with someone you met here Participate! join us on Facebook www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=58020017457 Visitour web pages www.cra-w.org

  13. Start your Power Networking Today Because your Peers are your Competition and they are out there networking ……

  14. Resources • CRA-W Career Mentoring Workshops, Workshop reports and transcripts • Networking Like a Pro: Turning Contacts into Connectionsby Ivan Misner, David Alexander and Brian Hilliard  • Make Your Contacts Count: Networking Know How for Business And Career Success by Anne Baber and Lynne Waymon

  15. Feedback and Q&A • http://alturl.com/z4gp9

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