Cultivating Cultural Confidence: Embracing Your Identity, Owning Your Story, and Showing Up Authentically in Corporate America
with Evelyn M. Pérez-Albino
How to craft your compelling professional summary
Rachel Serwetz
To best answer, "Tell me about yourself," and put a strong summary on your LinkedIn profile and resume, you must first reflect on who you are as a professional.
In this talk, Rachel Serwetz (CEO & Career Coach) will walk us through a hands-on exercise to understand how to reflect and...
To best answer, "Tell me about yourself," and put a strong summary on your LinkedIn profile and resume, you must first reflect on who you are as a professional.
In this talk, Rachel Serwetz (CEO & Career Coach) will walk us through a hands-on exercise to understand how to reflect and concisely document your functional background, strengths, and direction.
By the end of this session, you'll gain a powerful written summary that will also serve as a framework for introducing yourself to other professionals. We'll even offer some event attendees the opportunity to do mock practice out loud and receive feedback on their delivery!
Get ready to discuss:
- The importance of reflecting on your career journey (and documenting it!)
- How to structure a concise and impactful professional summary
- How a written summary will serve you as a framework for interviewing and networking
Meet The Speaker
Rachel Serwetz
Career Exploration Coach
Rachel Serwetz' early professional experience was at Goldman Sachs in Operations and at Bridgewater Associates in HR. From there, she was trained as a coach at NYU and became a certified coach through the International Coach Federation. After this, she worked in HR Research at Aon Hewitt and attained her Technology MBA at NYU Stern.
Throughout her career, she has helped hundreds of professionals with career exploration and for the past 5 years, she has been building her company, WOKEN, which is an online career exploration platform to coach professionals through the process of clarifying their ideal job and career path.
She is also an Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship at Binghamton University and has served as a Career Coach through the Flatiron School/WeWork, Columbia University, and Project Activate.
