At the SMU Office of Alumni Relations, we believe in the mantra that Career Development and Professional Development go hand-in hand. Responding also to the requests of alumni for career guidance throughout their professional lives, it was thus appropriate and timely for a Career Coach to helm the session.
Twenty-eight alumni attended the workshop on 2nd March 2017, facilitated by Lim Yue-Wen, Founder of LifeWork Consulting. Yue-Wen boasts over two decades of senior corporate experience in large multinationals, local public service organisations, SMEs and business start-ups. His management experience has spanned across IT, FMCG, Consumer Electronics, HR Consulting, Hotel and Leisure, and Higher Education Management.
The alumni attendees were far from a homogenous group. Hailing from different sectors and each possessing varied years of post-graduation working experience, they brought different perspectives to the table. During the three-hour workshop, alumni participants immersed themselves in activities that toggled between self-reflection and group discussion.
Yue-Wen brought the attendees through topics on transferable skills, career criteria list, skills categorization and career matrix. However, focal to the workshop was the Career Transition Inventory, consisting of 40 soul-searching statements for each individual to ponder deeply on, and thereafter, gauging one’s level of readiness for intended career transition or not.
The workshop was well-received, as expressed by Shaun Mathew (LLB 2014) "Thanks for organising the event and engaging the alumni!" With such enthusiasm and surging interest in career-related workshops, alumni can look forward to more topics of such in the near future.
Upcoming in the Alumni Professional Development Series
Eliminate Workplace Conflicts with Emergenetics – Exploring the Intricacies of Our Thinking and Behavioural Preferences
(1 April 2017, Saturday, 9 am to 1 pm, Classroom B1-2 (Rm B116B), School of Economics/School of Social Sciences, SMU)
Register here.
For queries, contact jeaninechen@smu.edu.sg