Question 1: Many organisations provide a professional mentoring service to their new graduates or employees. This can take the form of personal mentoring, where a senior employee mentors a new or junior member of staff. How do you think that you could benefit from having mentor during the initial years of your professional employment? Write about a ½ page on this. Question 2: Provide details of 2 activities that you are going to undertake as part of your professional career planning. These might include attending ACS events, subscribing to professional publications, gaining accreditation in specific technical areas, or any others that you would like to undertake. For each activity, describe how you believe that this will progress your professional career. Write about a ½ page on this. Note: 1st… you can write about ACS events, that I attended on December 9th, at Melbourne Exhibition center. ACS Victoria Young Professionals Half-Day Conference About this Event Venue: Clarendon Auditorium Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre (MCEC) 2 Clarendon Street South Wharf VIC 3000 Date: Friday 9th December 2016 Time: 8:30am for a 9:00am start Registration Register Additional Information Event Type: Special Event Presenter: Steven Cooper - Evangelist, Xero Presenter: Felicity Watson - Personal Brand & Communications Coach Presenter: Henry Louey - Director of Certification, ACS CP Hours: 6 Event Prices (Inc GST) Regular Fee: Members: $20.00 Non Members: $50.00 Following the success of our inaugural event held in August, ACS Victoria is pleased to announce the second Young Professionals Half-Day Conference for 2016! Targeted towards but not limited to students currently completing their studies, this special event will allow participants to keep abreast with their professional development through the facilitation of three separate presentations. Session 1 - Alternative Career Paths in Technology - Choose your own tech BYO Career Traditional career paths are a thing of the past in today's world, with many changing careers several times in a working life we suddenly see an emergence of new opportunities and technologies like never before. Jobs that exist today weren't something that existed 3 years ago and many jobs that exist today likely won't in 3 years from now. In this talk I will share my personal experience and journey. From pivoting into new directions leveraging experience to adapting to vastly different roles. From a degree in accounting to an Evangelist for a global accounting company I will show how things like personal branding and tech know-how are vitally important to making an impact in the tech world. Session 2 - Personal Branding & Self-Promotion Have you established your personal brand in order to stand out from the crowd? From teaching guests of the six key factors to building a memorable personal brand, to self-promotion, Felicity Watson will share her knowledge on how to best set yourself apart from others to build your profile and enhance your career opportunities. Session 3 - Vendor Certification or Academic Qualification? Why not both? Many employers struggle to find talent with the right combination of hard and soft skills. As an individual, what skills should you be looking to gain that will meet the needs of your future employers? This presentation will look at the role of Vendor Certifications in the ICT industry, ICT Certification pathways and the emergence of Micro-Credentialing in gaining recognition for the skills you will develop throughout your career. Light refreshments will be provided. Online registration is required. Professional Year students - Attending the half-day conference will account for all three events required to complete your studies (6 CPD hours). All three sessions must be attended in order for your enrolment to be processed. Biography: Rebecca Martin Bec Martin is a Developer Evangelist at Xero, and is part of an fantastic team that maintains the developer ecosystem around Xero’s add-on partners. Bec is also part of the Australian hackathon scene and the social developer community in the Australian region. Bec left life as an accountant to pursue technology and development. Since then she’s worked on a variety of different projects for enterprise clients as a technology consultant and freelance developer. She’s also passionate about making other girls and women aware that technology is a viable and rewarding career option for them too. Bec has a deep understanding of the many different facets of a working organisation, and especially the power and importance of digital technology. She has a passion for creating innovative solutions, enabled by technology, from inception to fruition. Biography: Felicity Watson A personal brand and communications coach, Felicity works one-on-one with female coaches and consultants to create a brand and profile that leads to more connection, collaboration and clients. With twenty years experience in marketing and public relations for much loved Australian and global brands, Felicity has honed her skills promoting everything from gaming to greeting cards to beer. Her qualifications include a Bachelor of Arts (Monash University) and a Graduate Diploma in Public Relations (RMIT). She is also a trained life coach (Beautiful You Coaching Academy) and image consultant. Biography: Henry Louey ICT Educator, Public Speaker and Business Development Executive, Henry has over 25 years’ experience in all facets of the ICT education and training sector - both locally and abroad. As an educator, Henry has designed and implemented a number of programs with colleges and universities across the region to help align industry certification into core school curriculum. As a public speaker and writer, Henry has been an industry speaker at many I.T conferences and has spoken on topics such as Cloud Computing, Security, Identity Management & Green I.T. Henry has also authored a number of articles which have been published in industry magazines. Before joining ACS, Henry has worked for multiple global companies including Novell, CompTIA and Telstra. Keep up-to-date with ACS Victoria events and news. Join the conversation today #acsvic 2….And 2nd you can write about any IT job interview with in Melbourne I attended.