Your Career Clarity Drives Employee Engagement
with Rachel Serwetz
Competitive Advantage & Personal Branding: COVID-19 Times
Zahra Jamshed, Mary Schumacher
This session will be a dialogue format where a futurist and a personal branding guru will focus on how and what to highlight in these times to ensure that your presence, strengths, skills and interests are represented in the most marketable manner demonstrating your value to your audience....
This session will be a dialogue format where a futurist and a personal branding guru will focus on how and what to highlight in these times to ensure that your presence, strengths, skills and interests are represented in the most marketable manner demonstrating your value to your audience. What does your audience needs in these times? Do you know that? During the world of Zoom, Webex, Teams, and Hangouts, how do you represent yourself in content and on camera? Are you doing yourself justice or harm? Is the flexibility of work location keeping you on your toes or have you gotten too relaxed? What are the pitfalls you need to avoid? Our experts will bring their perspectives to ensure you are ready to represent your best self in COVID-19 times and beyond demonstrating your understanding of the businesses you want to present yourself to.
Meet The Speakers
Zahra Jamshed
Innovative Digital Solutions and Sales Alliances Strategist
With a background in infrastructure, cloud, digital engineering, and data analytics, Zahra has served as a thought leader in go-to-market strategy, consultative solutions selling, and strategic pursuits / alliances. Zahra brings over 20 years of experience with global firms in management consulting (Deloitte, AMS / CGI and boutique firms), technology solutions (CenturyLink, Thomson Reuters, and Dell Technologies) and Solution Integrators (Cognizant, most recently) where she served as a transformation leader for clients to implement the best of breed technologies, reduce cost, improve service performance, prepare for business continuity and disaster recovery. Her clientele spanned across financial services, US public sector, healthcare, life sciences, utility, energy, media /entertainment, travel and hospitality. As a futurist, Zahra continues to stay involved in various personal growth and advancement initiatives, i.e. blogging, advanced learning, mentoring and coaching. Zahra serves on the advisory boards of both for-profit and non-profit firms. She is based out of metro New York.
Email: zahra.Jamshed@gmail.com
Mary Schumacher
Writer and Personal Branding Strategist
Mary Schumacher is a writer and personal branding strategist. As the founder of CareerFrames writing practice, she produces original content for resumes, LinkedIn profiles, executive bios, marketing briefs, and other career documents. She came to this role after positions in government, business, and associations. Throughout all of her roles, Mary brought a talent for distilling myriad data points into compelling storytelling and for celebrating human cleverness.
Email: mary@careerframes.com
Q&A
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For those who have been out of the workforce over 1 or even 5+ years, how does one position / brand themselves and compete with those only out of the workforce a few weeks/months since the...
Posted on 2020-05-28 -
What is the best way to brand myself? Are cover letters being reviewed?
Posted on 2020-05-27 -
I have an IT training business. My classes are face to face. How do I take advantage of this situation when I am loosing 75% of my business
Posted on 2020-05-27 -
Interested in learning from the experts how top optimize a LinkedIn profile to avoid being pigeon holed or not being considered in searches.
Posted on 2020-05-27 -
Talking about self is very difficult, how do we overcome that?
Posted on 2020-05-26 -
What should a new graduate in CS do around this time?
Posted on 2020-05-26 -
I was recently terminated from my job. How do I explain this to future employers in a way that doesn't stop me from moving forward in the interview process?
Posted on 2020-05-26 -
What advice can you give to graduate students who want to stand out in the job market, but haven't been able to participate in in-person internships that are critical in the job/career search?
Posted on 2020-05-26 -
As a tech professional who has been away for several years due to family, and is now seeking to return to work again, what's the best way to build branding?
Posted on 2020-05-24 -
If I can only do one thing a day to advance my personal brand what should it be?
Posted on 2020-05-19 -
What are the most in-demand strengths, skills and interests which have arose lately and will probably stay relevant in the next months/years?
Posted on 2020-05-12 -
I'm pivoting into a completely new field. How do I best position (and brand) myself without a lot of work history in this new field but with tons of experience in business and sales.
Posted on 2020-05-12
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