10.06.2024 - 14.06.2024 (Week 8)

Metta Angelica (0349095)

Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media

Professional Development Week

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Professional Development Week

Professional Development Week is a place where we students can have the opportunity to interact with professionals of different careers and have first-hand information about certain industries.

Below is the list of sessions I've joined:

• Financial Literacy for Fresh Graduates
• The Art of Storytelling
• Maximize Your LinkedIn Presence
• Reimagine Your Career: The Rise of Generative A.I.
• Exploring Furthering Studies: The Rhodes Scholarship Experience
• Film Acquisitions, Marketing & Distribution in Malaysia

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Day 1 - 10 June 2024

Financial Literacy for Fresh Graduate

The first meeting is with Mr. Shandy Lee from Maybank. Today he shared with us how to save and make money work for us. 

One of the things about saving money is to spend on ourselves, set aside some money to save or to invest, and know what we are spending our money for. Another thing is to not owe money if not needed, it is to avoid unnecessary debts accumulating, and lastly review our savings, expenses, and debts, this is to help us manage our financial situation.

Mr. Shandy told us that we should also focus on our growth and career, have a plan, and not recklessly use our savings, because they can be used for future emergencies.

 Another thing I learned about saving is that if I want my money to grow, then what can I do is set aside some money I am willing to risk for investment. Study how to invest and build my portfolio, don't recklessly follow others just because they are doing it.

The Art of Storytelling

We met with our speaker Ms. Low Ngai Nyuen, who shared her career experiences throughout her years working and what impact she has made to change society through storytelling. 

Ms. Low has achieved a lot of achievements in her career and has created a lot of positive movements that change society's behavior towards the environment. She shared with us a few key points such as:

When do we storytell?

1. Access complex information
2. Foster a sense of shared purpose
3. Present cases persuasively
4. Inspire adoption and traction
5. Engage, connect, and build trust

All points above have their own purpose, but this is how she was able to create a story that attract people attention to a problem. Another thing she shared with us is how to a frame a story?

To frame a story we first must know who is our audience, and structure elevation.

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Ms. Low shared plenty of things whithin this session, she also shared how she feel and sense of achievement while working together with the team.

Day 2 - 11 June 2024

Maximize Your LinkedIn Presence

In today's first session, we met our speaker Ms. Syafiqah who is part of a recruitment team. This session is most useful for me as a student looking how I can maximize my exposure to recruiters. 

In this session Ms. Syafiqah has shared multiple tips and suggestions that we students can do and what and what not to input in out LinkedIn profile. Not only that she also shared how LinkedIn can be used in more way besides being a a place to look for jobs.

How LinkedIn can be useful is by being a portal to build a professional network where users can share their educational or personal achievements.

Reimagine Your Career: The Rise of Generative A.I.

In this session we met with 3 speakers from Deloitte. Deloitte is the largest professional services network by revenue and number of employees in the world and is considered one of the Big Four accounting firms, along with EY, KPMG, and PwC. They provide audit and assurance, consulting, financial advisory, risk advisory, tax and related services.

For today session Mr. Shakar on of the Deloitte speaker is sharing us about Generative AI and how it can change or make and Impact towards us in studying as well working environment. He also shared how GenAI where able to be built and how GenAI is different from Traditional AI. 

Exploring Furthering Studies: The Rhodes Scholarship Experience

This session is the most informative session with the speakers discussing about the Rhode Scholarship programme. Beginning with the speakers introduction and giving their brief experience studying at oxford. They've shared us details about what does the scholarship offers and the requirment to be able to apply for the scholarship.

Day 3 - 12 June 2024

Film Acquisitions, Marketing & Distribution in Malaysia

In this session, we met with our speaker Mr. Tung Yow Kong. He is the Chief Operating Officer in GSC Movies. He first shared us about the first movie theater in Malaysia which is called "Colleseum" then he shared us how the film industry is able to distribute their films.

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It is a useful learning experience for me to know how the film industry works and how they manage their steps of acquisition, distribution and production. Not only that we also learn about the current movie design as other methods of distribution besides movie theatre.

Day 4 - 13 June 2024

Job Hunting: Find Your Match and Get Hired

Today we had a session with KABEL, it is a website that helps students or fresh graduates to speed up the process of finding a job and lessen the time used for finding jobs and and research. The speakers first shared use how long and difficult the process to find a job, because this is almost common to experience by most fresh graduates.

They shared us how useful KABEL can be for us and not only that they also give us tips how we can be more noticeable in KABEL. After this 1 hour session I've gain useful knowledge that I can use to apply in building up my portfolio.

And at the end of this session, I was very intrigued to also try my hand on KABEL.

Day 5 - 14 June 2024

Shine Briefing Session

Starting with an introduction video about what is SHINE the speakers are very detailed in sharing their subject. It's very easy to understand how SHINE can be very useful for us students in learning to develop skills as well as building soft skills.

After the video, the speakers shared SHINE vision and mission as stated below:

• Discover identity and purpose
• To help them understand who they are and what drives them
• Empower meaningful change
• To provide a platform for driving positive change in society
• Enable youth to:
• Acquire and apply holistic capabilities
• Enhance graduates employability
• Nurture youths for,
• Growth mindset
• Independence
• Lifelong learning
• Create future leaders who:
• Drive team toward goals
• Make an impact

Next, to know more about the participants the speaker added a session where we wrote about ourselves and shared the info in Padlet for everyone to see and know each other. After the brief introduction, the speakers move on to talk about SHINE, sharing its benefits and how we can use it. It is a very detailed explanation and I understood the use and functions of SHINE.

Next, we also had a quiz game session that tested our knowledge and understanding of SHINE. Overall it was an enjoyable experience.

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REFLECTION

The beginning of the week started off great with informative and useful stuff that I can relate to and use to apply in my future, even though some sessions were quite different from what I expected it to be the end results weren't so bad as I was able to explore about other knowledge of different industries.

It was a bit difficult for me to comprehend how some industries work, like the GenAI and its impacts on changing the labor in some sectors of industry or the Acquisition process in the film industry. Overall, it is informative knowledge that makes me know more about certain aspects of the industry that I don't usually look at.

Lastly, besides being an informative session this was a good experience because we were able to directly ask questions about the speakers/professionals' personal opinions when it came to their preferences or sharing their experience first-hand.