Major Project / Professional Development Week
10.6.2024 - 14.6.2024 (Week 8)
Cheryl Voo Yie Qi / 0349878
Major Project / Bachelor of Design in Creative Media
Professional Development Week
ATTENDED WEBINARS
10/6/24 (Monday)10am - 11am | Zoom
Financial Literacy for Fresh Graduates
2pm - 3pm | Zoom
Keynote: “Aspire to Inspire”
11/6/24 (Tuesday)
10am - 11am | Zoom
Maximize Your LinkedIn Presence
3:30pm - 4:30pm | Microsoft Teams
A.I. in Digital Media
13/6/24 (Thursday)
11:30am - 12:30pm | Microsoft Teams
Digital Transformation and Solutions: The Importance of Making It Easy
2pm - 3pm | Microsoft Teams
How to Build Your Personal Branding at Work & During Interviews
REFLECTION REPORT
1. Financial Literacy for Fresh Graduates
The "Financial Literacy for Fresh Graduates" webinar mainly focused on money management strategies. The webinar taught us about some saving strategies including paying off unnecessary debt, practicing careful spending, and prioritizing savings by paying yourself first. The speaker highlighted the importance of regularly checking finances and taught us to understand the difference between saving and investing. Advice given included maximizing earning potential by focusing on career development, setting up an emergency fund to cover three to six months' expenses, and viewing inflation as a normal economic occurrence. Overall, the webinar offered insightful advice for building a strong financial foundation through methodical saving and thoughtful investing.
2. Keynote: “Aspire to Inspire”
The "Aspire to Inspire" keynote webinar mainly taught us about continuous practice, stepping out of comfort zones, and considering multiple career paths based on skills and passions to stand out in the job market. The speaker emphasized how technology is affecting the postal service, pointing out that digital integration is necessary and that physical mail is slowly disappearing. For those who are feeling lost, the speaker advised chasing passions and seizing opportunities without fear. The speaker also advised us to embrace new experiences for growth. Overall, the webinar provided valuable insights for building a strong career foundation through effective skill development and thoughtful decision-making.
3. Maximize Your LinkedIn Presence
4. A.I. in Digital Media
The "A.I. in Digital Media" webinar highlighted how A.I. is transforming marketing by enhancing personalization, expanding production capacity, and automating tasks. A.I. creates highly individualized customer experiences through data analysis. It also speeds up marketing operations with its limitless production possibilities and automates repetitive jobs like social media administration and email marketing. While A.I. may affect job opportunities someday, since it can handle difficult jobs and free humans' hands to engage in strategic and creative projects, it should be seen as a solution to increase productivity rather than a threat to humans.
5. Digital Transformation and Solutions: The Importance of Making It Easy
The webinar "Digital Transformation and Solutions: The Importance of Making It Easy" focused on how advances in technology affect daily operations and job opportunities. For example, Sunway Pyramid's parking system now uses digital license plate recognition instead of using pen and paper to calculate the hours you spend in the mall for the parking fee. The speaker also mentioned the progress of technology has become more advanced over the few years since COVID-19 started, especially in video consultations like Zoom and Google Meet to meet various demands. The speaker emphasized that the course that we study is not the final destination, and finding career fulfillment might involve exploring different paths. For example, people might transition from law to entrepreneurship.
6. How to Build Your Personal Branding at Work & During Interviews
The webinar "How to Build Your Personal Branding at Work & During Interviews" highlighted how important personal branding is to making an impression and securing employment. It emphasizes including cultural diversity, integrating technology, and merging startup and enterprise cultures for modern success, using Agoda's strategy as an example. The speaker mentioned marketing ourselves as a brand in order to gain recognition and influence is known as personal branding. Building and maintaining a brand requires identifying our goals and value points, defining our target market, and evaluating and changing our brand regularly.
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