Transcript Building Your Professional Network - CRA-W

Building Your Professional Network
Gilda Garretón
Oracle
co-founder of Latinas in Computing
Elizabeth Bautista
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Funding, $
Collaboration,
♞♟
Networking
Why a Professional Network
“If you do good research or work, fame,
funding, promotions, and graduate
students follow”
Professional Networking
• Making professional connections and
using them wisely
• Systematically seeking out and
becoming acquainted with people in the
service of your career/professional goals
•Applying different strategies depending
on context settings
Networking Establishes
Your Brand
Source for new
ideas,
collaborations and
feedback
Invites to talks,
Job interviews,
Letters of
Program
recommendation
Committees
Internships,
Papers accepted,
Citations
Networking is a skill
Prepare for
an event
Elevator
Speech
Networking
Offer to
Help
Set Goals
Talk to those around you
Practice this new
Networking Skill
Deliberately Target
Your Networking
Alumni
Established
Researchers
People with
Possible Job
Opportunities
Business
Leaders
Technical
Advisors
Contemporaries
Networking is a Relationship
Write down
next Steps
Keep in
Touch!
Exchange
giving talks
LESSONS FROM OUR
EXPERIENCE
CRA-W
Computer Research Association Committee on the Status of
Women in Computing Research
Mission increase the participation and
success of women in computing research
www.cra-w.org
CRA-W Programs
Undergrads: Undergraduate Research Experiences
Undergrads: Distinguished lecture role models
Grad Cohort: group mentoring of grad students
Grad Students: Discipline Specific Research
workshops
PhD Researchers: group mentoring of early & mid
career @ CMW, CAPP, Hopper & Tapia
Academic careers
Undergraduates
Graduate Students
Industry/government
www.cra-w.org
What should you do next?
Complete the evaluation survey
Apply your new knowledge
Share your new knowledge at your institution
Follow up with someone you met here
Participate! join us on Facebook
www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=58020017457
Visit our web pages
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Start your Power Networking Today
Because your Peers are your Competition
and they are out there networking ……
Resources
• CRA-W Career Mentoring Workshops, Workshop
reports and transcripts
• Networking Like a Pro: Turning Contacts into
Connections by Ivan Misner, David Alexander
and Brian Hilliard
• Make Your Contacts Count: Networking Know
How for Business And Career Success by Anne
Baber and Lynne Waymon
Feedback and Q&A
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