Lasting Impressions: you and your job search

So you’re ready to trade in your hoodie for a suit? Entering the workforce can be an exciting and intimidating time, especially when you’re about to hit the market in search of your first career opportunity alongside all your classmates. How do you put your best foot forward and land that great opportunity? Join Lisa Wall, of Hays Specialist Recruitment, for some insight on what top companies are looking for and how you can make a winning impression. You’ll learn about: • First Impressions: Opportunities to make them and how to ensure they are positive. • Finding a Job: The hiring process and the impact of the impression you make. • Starting your job: Lasting Impressions When: Thursday, March 6, 2014 Where: MacEwan Student Centre, Loft 487 | 4:30 – 5:30 p.m. RSVP: On CareerLink (sign-in required) Lisa Wall, Manager of the Oil and Gas Team with Hays in Calgary, focuses on aligning top Project Services talent with our Oil and Gas clients. She brings nearly 10 years of diverse recruitment and human resources experience in professional and executive search to the Hays Oil and Gas team. Coupled with a background in operations management, a psychology degree from Dalhousie University and a post-secondary diploma in Human Resource Management from Mount Royal University, Lisa brings an authentic level of expertise to her clients. Lisa moved to Alberta from Canada’s East Coast in 2004. She worked in professional search in Calgary for 4 years in leadership and consulting roles before joining the corporate recruitment team of one of her clients. In 2008, Lisa joined the Calgary human resources team of the world’s fifth largest energy company to experience recruitment and talent management from the inside. She gained valuable insight through her involvement in workforce strategy and planning, building processes and policies, developing training programs, career management and leading a recruitment team. A strong understanding of the western Canadian energy sector and its talent acquisition challenges, as well as experience in both third-party and in-house recruitment provides Lisa with the ability to align the right candidates with the right opportunity.

Location:

MacEwan Student Centre – Loft 487

More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/lasting-impressions-you-and-your-job-search