IEEE Metropolitan Los Angeles Section – Communications Society Chapter

2024 IEEE Rising Stars Conference team presents THE RED DWARF STAR VIRTUAL SERIES Driving Ambition Panel: CJ Evans, Scott Heller, Heather Monigan, Samantha Russell Red Dwarf stars are the smallest and emerging in the universe. The Red Dwarf events represent the formation and growth of our IEEE Rising Stars Conference. The 2024 IEEE Rising Stars Conference team will be hosting a series of monthly events to show you a glimpse of what we are preparing for the conference. We'll be sharing some professional development and technical content throughout this series, as well as some of the networking experience. Join us on a series of informative and engaging events as we prepare for our large stage at the 2024 IEEE Rising Stars Conference, January 5-7, in Las Vegas at the Tropicana Hotel. Visit our website at: https://ieee-risingstars.org/ Description: How to find projects in school or work. Finding projects to join or creating projects to research in school with an instructor or school backing to present the results at conferences and to put on resumes for employers. How to find those projects at work that can also be presented at conferences and further enhance your career as an engineer. Speaker(s): CJ Evans, Scott Heller, Heather Monigan, Samantha Russell Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/363055

This webinar will help attendees with: - Building in-person successful networking skills for first and lasting impressions that establish and strengthen strategic business relationships. - Creating and delivering brief, creative, impressive statements for external and internal networking describing the why, what and how you work and essential active next steps. - Being memorable to each person you meet; consistently present confident, positive nonverbal and verbal communications skills - Successfully working a room, details for before, during and after an event, how to survey the crowd, approach strangers, break into a group, comfortably disengage, understand generational and cultural nuances. - In 5 minutes, make connections, or not, then disengage and move on. - Build long-term networking skills that are essential and valuable for continued career development and accessing unknown opportunities. - Build strong one-on-one networks with individuals you know or are referred to you. - How to reestablish past connects. Speaker(s): Jean O'Brien, PHR, Agenda: IEEE-USA's free webinars/events are designed to help you find your next job, maintain your career, negotiate an appropriate salary, understand ethical considerations in the workplace and learn about other career-building strategies and public policy developments that affect your profession. For information regarding upcoming webinars or to visit our vast webinar archive, please visit: https://ieeeusa.org/careers/webinars/ This program is offered exclusively to active IEEE members. Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/366860