Career & Business Growth Webinar

Eligibility

This opportunity is open to all DMU students. The maximum number of places for this event is 15. Please check our eligibility criteria for further details.

About

In cooperation with our partner, Pagoda Projects, DMU Global will be offering twenty online events throughout the 2020-2021 academic year. All events are employability focused and aim to give students an insight into topics related to the international working world.

In this webinar, the speaker will discuss strategies and give compelling insights to help you understand how to sharpen skills and continue your professional growth. The speaker will share tips on building a meaningful career and the key elements that will have have an impact on your career growth.

Agenda:

  • Building a meaningful career
  • Self-awareness and reflection on your journey
  • Identifying your work values and knowing yourself
  • Identifying your skills and interests
  • Career motivation and goal setting

Learning Objectives:

  • Learn about career development-focused topics and enhance your self-awareness
  • Learn how to network in business settings
  • Identify resources and strategies to help guide your career
  • How to be prepared for phone and video interviews

Speakers:

Philippe Touzin – Managing Director – APAC Micro Grids and Renewable Energy

Enthusiastic and accomplished Power and Renewable Energy professional with over nine years experience in Asia within two distinct industries. Sales and cross-cultural management within several international teams for Start-up and Multinational companies.

Specialises in identifying, evaluating, negotiating and finalizing transactions of various complexity and nature, most of the time in complex environments, which are difficult to apprehend and penetrate. Combined with in-depth South East Asian commercial and technical knowledge in integrating on-grid/off-grid power, including hybrid diesel/storage/PV systems.

Jenny Hofmann – Business Operations Manager at Samsung NEXT

Jenny has 15+ years of global experience in making smooth processes even smoother, pioneering new ones and coming up with ad-hoc solutions to every-day operational challenges. Hands-on, strategic, collaborative, she is a builder, leading teams to success.

Her expertise: building organizations’ business operations – Finance, People Ops, Budget Planning and Forecasting, Policy Design, Process & Project Management.

Application

If you would like to join this event, click the ‘Apply now’ button at the bottom of this page. You will receive a formal invitation to register for the event to your DMU e-mail account shortly after the deadline. Please, check your inbox as well as junk inbox regularly.

Key information

  • Application deadline: Monday 18 February 2021, 9am
  • Live session start time: Thursday 25 February 2021, 10am
  • Session duration: 1 hour

If you have any questions about this opportunity please contact us at dmuglobal@dmu.ac.uk