Nontraditional College Success

How To Win at The Virtual Career Fair and Overcoming Rejections.

Highlights:
-How to prep before the career fair/conference
-What to do during the conference
-What recruiters are looking for
-I got rejected five times from my dream employer. The sixth time I got the job.

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Live Zoom Q/A with Professionals that recruited Virtually for Lockheed Martin, GE, and Northrop Grumman. Sat, Oct 24 at 1 pm PST event notice on Nontraditional College Success Linked Page.

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Have you ever wanted to receive advice from a fortune 30 CTO? Today is your chance. John Tracy shared his top advice for college students and early career professionals.

John Tracy was the CTO of Boeing from 2006-2016.

Highlights:
-I got laid off three times in three years.
-I applied to five of the six companies that make up Boeing, and they all rejected me.
- The company that had rejected me twice is the one that finally hired me.
-If you fail, keep trying. I failed algebra 1
-I am 62.5% Hispanic

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In today's episode Stephen Lu and I will talk about rotation programs. 

-What are they? 🤷‍♂️ 

-How to get in one even if your company does not have one.

-Why you should be in one? 😀 

-The downside of these programs 😞 

Most of the big companies have these programs

.Northrop Grumman has one called Pathway, previously PDP 

Boeing has one called early career rotation program 

Stephen lu is in a rotation program at Lockheed Martin called ELDP.

Pros:

✅ Breath

✅ Network

✅ Special events

✅ Flexible- the big picture

Cons:

❌ Depth

❌Promotions

❌Fixed structure

Other topics:
Pay

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In todays episode we have Janelisse Morales Gonzalez a NASA intern, and student from University of Central Florida.

"My first ever LinkedIn post got 360,000 reactions and was viewed by 11.7 Millions"

"My teacher laughed when I said I wanted to work at NASA" 

"I was 14 years old and taking college courses"

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In Todays episode we have Austin Belcak from Cultivated Culture.

He will be talking about:
Time Management
Growing Your LinkedIn Following 
Land Your Dream Job Without Applying Online
COVID-19 

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In todays Episode Our Guest Jay Flores and I will talk about:
Finding Your Passions, (college degree, Job, Industry)
Why your passion comes first and $$$ Comes Later
Why You Need to Get Involved NOW! 
Jay will share his Nontraditional Story 
Picking from several offers
Content Creation

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In this Episode Lazaro from Success Innovation and I will talk about:

• What you did not learn in engineering school and need in the field 
• Expectations vs reality of engineering 
• Lazaro's Nontraditional Story 

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In this episode Khalid Blata, Alejandro Rodriguez and I have a conversations about mental health. We talk about our experiences dealing with mental health issues and how we deal with it. This is just a conversation between friends, no medical advice.

This is a very taboo topic for a lot of nontraditional students. So, we want to add some awareness to it and tell you it is okay not to be okay and you can seek help.

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In todays episode America's Top Career Expert Robin Ryan will share with us advice on:

• Where to look for jobs
• Resume tips 
• Finding a network 
• LinkedIn tips
• Virtual interviewing and how to answer questions the correct way
• COVID-19
• Cover Letters
• ATS - Applicant tracking system 
• and Advice for graduating students

Robin answered some frequently asked questions:

• creative on resume ? yes or no   
• headshot on resume? yes or no
• write all the keywords in white in your header or footer for ATS? yes or no

Resources Mentioned:
Glassdoor
built In

Robin Ryan's Resources:
60 Seconds and You're Hired! -Book on Amazon
Forbes weekly column
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Robin's other books and articles can be found at her website www.RobinRyan.com

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Episode 13- Networking! How to Stand Out and Win at Networking with CEO of Wonsulting, Jonathan Javier.

Top Tips on Networking at:

•career fairs

•conferences

•presentations

•LinkedIn 

•professional organizations

+ how to build a relation with your connections

Challenge that will get you in front of 55,000 professional

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