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BWSF Virtual Career Development Series: Your Success Toolkit #1: Resumes & Cover Letters

Overview:

BWSF is excited to share our virtual career development series, Your Success Toolkit, led by JenFryTalks. This empowering series will equip you with the tools to successfully present your best professional self.

NOTE: This is a two-part series. You are strongly encouraged to register for both sessions. 

"How Do You Look on Paper?"

Session # 1: Resume & Cover Letter Workshop:

This workshop will assist the participants on understanding the critical components of having a successful resume and cover letter. The workshop will go over template, verbiage, importance of revising resumes and cover letters for each job applying for, how to pass the data mining software, and how to make your experience pop.

Date: Monday, May 18, 2020 Time: 8PM - 9PM EST

Location: Online/Virtual

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"Do You Represent?"

Session #2: Personal Branding 101- A Practitioner’s Guide:

This workshop will focus on discussing main points to consider when working on developing a personal brand, how to brand yourself, what the critical components of self branding are, who is your audience is, and developing a long term strategy.

Date: Tuesday, May 19, 2020 Time: 8PM - 9PM EST

Location: Online/Virtual

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About the Presenter: Jen Fry, Owner/CEO JenFryTalks

JenFryTalks is a social justice education firm who uses conversation to educate and empower those within athletics through an anti-racist lens on issues of race, inclusion, intersectionality, diversity, and equity. We facilitate conversation with small and large groups, athletic departments, athletic teams, staff, administrations, schools, affinity groups, identity groups and much more. We use our antiracist lens to advise on best practices that will create equitable searches, hiring, onboarding practices, methods of retaining staff, retaining student-athletes, supporting student-athletes, staff and coaches, and community building. 

Jen Fry is a veteran coach with over 15 years of experience at the collegiate level with coaching stints at Elon University, University of Illinois - 2011 National Runner-up, Washington State University, and Norfolk State University. She has spoken, consulted, or facilitated sessions/workshops with UCLA, Syracuse University, Colgate, Florida State University, Northwestern University, the University of South Florida, NCAA, NCAA Inclusion Forum, American Volleyball Coaches Association, Gilman School, Lonestar Conference, Black Student-Athlete Summit, Women Leaders in College Sports, Western Michigan University, East Carolina University, Notre Dame of Maryland, American University, Grinnell College, Texas A&M-Kingsville, Old Dominion Athletic Conference and more. Jen completed her first TedxDuke talk titled “Radical Social Justice Education Through High Fives.” Lastly, she is working on her PhD in Geography at the Michigan State University. Go Green. 

https://jenfrytalks.com

How to participate:

  • Click" view links" after your order is complete to stream the event.

  • We will also drop the Zoom link at 7:30pm/Eastern via email to all registrants

  • Click the Zoom link and join

  • Follow us on Facebook to catch the live stream of the webinar!

  • Use the hashtag #BWSForum to follow along as BWSF staff cover the event live!