Community Based Career Development Panel: IEEE WIE Forum USA East 2017

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This panel discussion was recorded at the IEEE Women in Engineering East Forum on 2 December 2017. 

Abstract: There are many ways to develop your career; most involve acquiring skills through training or on the job experiences. But what about other ways to increase your skills and your fulfillment at the same time. We will discuss how career development can be supported through community activities such as presenting at conferences, volunteering and competitions with panelists sharing their experiences, best practices and how to engage their employers to support these activities. Each panelist will share how these experiences helped them learn new technical and non-technical skills. Finally, we will provide insight on how recruiters view these community involvements. 

Penalists: 

Kathleen Smith (moderator), Chief Marketing Officer for ClearedJobs.Net/CyberSecJobs.Com
Julka Grodel, Principal Software Engineer at Framebridge
Cindy Jones, Principal Security Consultant with Rapid7
Sophia Fadli, Cyber Intelligence and Defense Analyst
Kirsten Renner, Director of Talent Acquisition, Novetta

Kathleen Smith is the Chief Marketing Officer for ClearedJobs.Net/CyberSecJobs.Com, both veteran owned companies, where she spearheads the community-building, and communications outreach initiatives catering to the both organizations’ many audiences including security cleared job seekers, cybersecurity candidates and military personnel as well as cleared facilities and cyber security employers. Kathleen has built key relationships with recruiting industry leaders as well as community insiders over the last 15 years in the community. Kathleen has presented at several security conferences on recruiting and job search within the cyber security world to include BSidesLV, BSidesTampa, BSidesDE, FedCyber. Kathleen volunteers in the cybersecurity community; she is the Director, HireGround, BSidesLV’s two day career track; Women in Cybersecurity, National Conference Planning Committee, and Women in Cybersecurity Celebration Planning Committee. Kathleen is a frequent contributor to The CyberWire on recruiting and job search within the cybersecurity community and was recently featured in a two part Federal Game Changers podcast. Finally, Kathleen is well respected within the recruiting community and is the co-founder and current President of recruitDC, the largest community of recruiters in the Washington DC area.

This panel discussion was recorded at the IEEE Women in Engineering East Forum on 2 December 2017. 

Abstract: There are many ways to develop your career; most involve acquiring skills through training or on the job experiences. But what about other ways to increase your skills and your fulfillment at the same time. We will discuss how career development can be supported through community activities such as presenting at conferences, volunteering and competitions with panelists sharing their experiences, best practices and how to engage their employers to support these activities. Each panelist will share how these experiences helped them learn new technical and non-technical skills. Finally, we will provide insight on how recruiters view these community involvements. 

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