Students will need more than a good education and a college diploma to successfully get internships, land jobs and launch their careers. They will need to network and to build and maintain strategic relationships throughout their careers.
By learning the professional skill of networking early in their lives, these young professionals will be a much stronger position to create new opportunities for themselves and others over the course of their work lives.
Are you hosting a Career Summit for your students?
Do you need a speaker who can engage your students with interesting, real-world content while also equipping them with 21st century skills including:
- Communication skills
- Presentation skills
- Networking and Relationship Building skills
- Personal Branding and Marketing skills
Author and speaker Kathy McAfee can help your students to overcome shyness and uncertainty and begin to network with other people with greater confidence and enthusiasm.
Her call to action in her keynote presentation designed for college students is to “pre-launch your career…start networking now.” It is a powerful message that students get excited about.
In her program “Networking Ahead for College Students” Kathy shares eleven networking tips to help students begin the process of building their professional network that will assist them in reaching their career goals.
- Perfect your Pitch is another valuable and suitable program for a career summit program for college students.
What students from Trinity College had to say about Kathy McAfee’s keynote:
“I just re-read your book and have started to truly take my career path by the horns. In all honesty, I have you to thank for a large part of that push.”- Danielle Conley, Chicago Posse Scholar-Class of 2014,Theater/Dance and American Studies Major
“Networking ahead is a great presentation given by Kathy to get me started in my career building process.” – Samuel Russell
“This session provided me with several useful tools in order to motivate myself for the future ahead.” – Ian Pickrell
“Kathy helped me realize that as a female professional I have the same advantages as others. I just have to be humbly assertive.” – Danielle Conley
“Becoming visible in a world that makes it so easy to get lost might be hard, but Kathy McAfee helped to get things started.” – Olivia Berry
“[Kathy is] very energetic and excited about helping others in jump starting their careers or improving on the networking abilities already in place.” – Elizabeth
“Having a confident voice will be useful in interviews. Practicing handshakes also helped us to practice our networking skills in real time.” – Stephanie Clemente
Read additional testimonies from college students
FREE slideshow presentation narrated by Kathy McAfee
Please enjoy this complimentary slideshow reviewing eleven networking tips for college students by speaker Kathy McAfee. Click on the image below to download the narrated PowerPoint slide show. (Note: it is a large file 355 MB and may take a few minutes to download. Please be patient. You’ll be glad that you did.)
To book Kathy McAfee as a speaker for your college program, career summit or other professional development conference, please contact her at (860) 408-0033 or email her at Kathy @ MarketingMotivator.net
