Young Professionals Half-Day Conference
Targeted towards but not limited to students currently completing their studies, this special event will allow participants to keep abreast with their professional development through the facilitation of three separate workshops, highlighting ways in which you can stand out and succeed as a skilled professional.
Clarendon Auditorium, Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre (MCEC), 2 Clarendon Street, South Wharf, VIC, 3006
Fri 02 Jun 2017 08:30 AM AEST
Duration: 4.0 hours
Member $30.00
Member-Concessional $30.00
Non-Member $50.00
Register by Wed 31 May 2017 02:00 PM AEST
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CPD Hours: 6
Skills Level: -
About this event
Following the success of our events held in August, December, and March, ACS Victoria is pleased to announce the fourth Young Professionals Half-Day Conference being held on 2nd June 2017.
Session 1 - Puzzle Out SFIA
Presented by: Louise Smith
Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA) affords a broad range of business benefits achieved through the use off a consistent definition of professional ICT skills. These include:
Presented by: Anneli Blundell
You may be a powerhouse of knowledge and experience but if your language patterns and non-verbal cues do not support this truth then your professional credibility and value is in danger of being lost in translation.
Too often we unconsciously sabotage our success by using language and behaviour that belies our true talents and abilities. But there is hope to be found within a simple, yet powerful formula for credible communications in the workplace.
This presentation provides a fresh perspective on communication and the language of success by exploring the key credibility killers in any communication context. Come along and find out if you are unknowingly sending the wrong signals about your capability and more importantly what to do about it!
In this session facilitated by Anneli Blundell the participants will:
Presented by: Louay Ghashash
Joining us at the Young Professionals Half-Day Conference, Louay Ghashash will speak about his journey from Syria to Australia and how he got to where he is as a Managing Security Consultant at Telstra. Talking to his background and experience Louay will also shed light on Security – what it is and what it isn’t, as well as the highs and lows of consulting.
Louay’s session will cover his recommendations for young professionals and what they should be doing for their careers. How; social media, books, interest groups, connections and networking can all help to get anyone to where they want to be.
Professional Year students - Attending the half-day conference will account for all 6 CPD hours required to complete your studies. All three sessions must be attended in order for your enrolment to be processed.
Session 1 - Puzzle Out SFIA
Presented by: Louise Smith
Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA) affords a broad range of business benefits achieved through the use off a consistent definition of professional ICT skills. These include:
- Consistent job descriptions providing clarity of expectation;
- Providing clarity to career pathways and developing an understanding of skills mobility across the business;
- Enhanced alignment of skills (via people) to job roles;
- Greater fit matching people to specific job roles; and
- Optimal skills utilisation, mobility and project capability via people and job roles being assigned to new work teams.
- Introduction to SFIA – how can it help me? What are my skills sets?
- How to navigate through SFIA
- Current skills and emerging skills – ACS White Paper Common ICT Profiles
- mySFIA - how to undertake a self-assessment, identify career pathways, develop a career profile
- ACS Professional Development opportunities, how to identify the right event using SFIA
Presented by: Anneli Blundell
You may be a powerhouse of knowledge and experience but if your language patterns and non-verbal cues do not support this truth then your professional credibility and value is in danger of being lost in translation.
Too often we unconsciously sabotage our success by using language and behaviour that belies our true talents and abilities. But there is hope to be found within a simple, yet powerful formula for credible communications in the workplace.
This presentation provides a fresh perspective on communication and the language of success by exploring the key credibility killers in any communication context. Come along and find out if you are unknowingly sending the wrong signals about your capability and more importantly what to do about it!
In this session facilitated by Anneli Blundell the participants will:
- Explore various language patterns that undermine credibility and confidence and learn how to avoid them
- Discover the non verbal signals that enhance your professional presence when communicating
- Learn how others see you and what that means for your career potential
Presented by: Louay Ghashash
Joining us at the Young Professionals Half-Day Conference, Louay Ghashash will speak about his journey from Syria to Australia and how he got to where he is as a Managing Security Consultant at Telstra. Talking to his background and experience Louay will also shed light on Security – what it is and what it isn’t, as well as the highs and lows of consulting.
Louay’s session will cover his recommendations for young professionals and what they should be doing for their careers. How; social media, books, interest groups, connections and networking can all help to get anyone to where they want to be.
Professional Year students - Attending the half-day conference will account for all 6 CPD hours required to complete your studies. All three sessions must be attended in order for your enrolment to be processed.
Speakers
Speaker
Louise Smith
Louise Smith – ACS Director Workforce Development & Planning is a business capability specialist with over 14+ years experience consulting to individual business and governments on the skill needs within their organisation, undertaking training needs analysis and workforce development strategy development and planning to address current and future skills requirements. This includes whole of sector approaches through her senior management roles for both HR, vocational education and training sectors and member-based professional associations.
Louise’s expertise includes consulting with industry peak bodies on the identification and articulation of occupational standards for nationally recognised qualifications, developing performance standards for occupation classifications; development of workplace assessment models; consulting to individual businesses on the skill needs within their organisation, supporting the identification of any skills gaps or shortages with current staffing arrangements, and strategy development to address future skills requirements.
Louise’s work in developing workplace performance standards extends to her having previously worked with Industry Skills Councils. Louise’s strengths also extend to the development of workplace assessment models, competency based frameworks and nationally recognise qualifications, ongoing product roadmap for mySFIA and implementation of SFIA within small to large ICT workforces.
Louise’s professional career spans across Australia and international markets including Indonesia, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Papua New Guinea and Sri Lanka.
Louise is a SFIA Accredited Consultant, degree qualified along with a Diploma of Training and Assessment, Diploma of Quality Auditing.
Louise’s expertise includes consulting with industry peak bodies on the identification and articulation of occupational standards for nationally recognised qualifications, developing performance standards for occupation classifications; development of workplace assessment models; consulting to individual businesses on the skill needs within their organisation, supporting the identification of any skills gaps or shortages with current staffing arrangements, and strategy development to address future skills requirements.
Louise’s work in developing workplace performance standards extends to her having previously worked with Industry Skills Councils. Louise’s strengths also extend to the development of workplace assessment models, competency based frameworks and nationally recognise qualifications, ongoing product roadmap for mySFIA and implementation of SFIA within small to large ICT workforces.
Louise’s professional career spans across Australia and international markets including Indonesia, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Papua New Guinea and Sri Lanka.
Louise is a SFIA Accredited Consultant, degree qualified along with a Diploma of Training and Assessment, Diploma of Quality Auditing.
Speaker
Anneli Blundell
- Professional People Whisperer
- Skilled parallel parker
- Running, salsa and roller-blading addict
Anneli is an engaging speaker, coach and communications expert. She is the co-author of two books on decoding human behaviour (to assist coaches and facilitators). Her latest book, Developing Direct Reports: Taking the guesswork out of leading leaders, is a practical leader’s guide for developing performance at work.
Anneli’s flagship leadership program for young professionals was a recent finalist in the 2014 LearnX Awards. She was awarded the designation of Master Coach in 2012.
Speaker
Louay Ghashash
Louay Ghashash is a Managing Security Consultant with over 20 years’ experience in Information security across number of industries. He has been involved in policy and process development, security certification audits and security risk assessment activities.
Louay has provided advisory services in Security Strategy, Governance, Risk and Compliance for number of industries sectors: Banking And Finance, Transport, Government, Oil And Gas, Manufacturing and Gaming sectors.
He has also acted as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) across number of customer engagements including Non-for-Profit and Superannuation.
Louay has completed and lead number of small medium and large size security engagement and projects across industries including Emergency, Utilities sectors, Fast food, City Councils, e-commerce and others.
Louay has a solid technical background and he has work on variety of platforms and flavors including Linux/Unix, Wintel, Firewalls and IDS, File integrity solutions among many others.
Louay has provided advisory services in Security Strategy, Governance, Risk and Compliance for number of industries sectors: Banking And Finance, Transport, Government, Oil And Gas, Manufacturing and Gaming sectors.
He has also acted as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) across number of customer engagements including Non-for-Profit and Superannuation.
Louay has completed and lead number of small medium and large size security engagement and projects across industries including Emergency, Utilities sectors, Fast food, City Councils, e-commerce and others.
Louay has a solid technical background and he has work on variety of platforms and flavors including Linux/Unix, Wintel, Firewalls and IDS, File integrity solutions among many others.
Agenda
Schedule
Activity
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Registration
9:00 AM - 9:50 AM
Session 1 Presentation
10:00 AM - 10:50 AM
Session 2 Presentation
10:50 AM - 11:10 AM
Networking Tea Break
11:20 AM - 12:10 PM
Session 3 Presentation
Event Location
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