Event Host: ASC Career Success
Are you a woman planning to work in a traditionally male-dominated field? Are you someone who wants to better understand the challenges your female peers face when working in a male-dominated field? This Development Academy, presented by the College of Arts and Sciences Career Success, offers opportunties to learn from women who have achieved success by overcoming barriers and are working to eliminate gender sterotypes in all industries. Network with your peers and learn from women whom have gone before you!
Space is limited! Registrer now! https://osu.joinhandshake.com/events/285566/
This event is open to all regardless of gender identity.
Learning Objectives
- Students will actively engage in the process of career management by attending this symposium and critical thinking about how to be successful in the workplace.
- Students will gain tools on how to make positive impressions and practice professionalism in the workplace.
- Students will begin to understand the skills needed to be a leader in the workplace such as leveraging the strengths of others to achieve common goals and using interpersonal skills to coach and develop others.
- Students will gain an understanding of the importance of respectfully interacting with others from all backgrounds and appreciating individual differences in others.
Day 2 – Monday, April 1st:
5:30-5:40 Registration & refreshments
5:40-6:25 Keynote Speaker: Beth Liston, Ohio State House, Representative for District 21
6:30 - 7:30 Welcome and Featured Panel: Sexism in the Workplace: How “Me Too” is Changing the Work Landscape for Women. Moderator: Vicki Pitstick, Graduate Assistant, ASC Center for Career & Professional Services
Meghan Ninneman, Title IX
Nina Brooks, Human Resources, Diversity & Inclusion
Kelly Capatosto, Senior Research Associate, Kirwin Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity
7:30 - 7:40 Break
7:40-8:40 Breakout Session: Being an Empowered Leader in a Male Dominated Field
Vicki Pitstick, Doctoral Candidate, Higher Education & Student Affairs
Dr. Lisa Abrams, Associate Chair, Department of Education
7:40-8:40 Breakout Session: Imposter Syndrome
Kierra Barnett, Doctoral Candidate, Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity
8:40 – 9:00 Closing Comments, prize drawing, and networking
This event is open to all Arts and Sciences Students and will be particularly beneficial to those in these Career Communities:
Career Communities help you discover new career paths, inform you of community-specific networking events, and exciting ways to become career ready! Join as many as you’d like. Log into Handshake, select “Career Interests” from your account drop-down menu, and identify the Career Communities that interest you!