Young Ladies practicing their networking skills at conference!
S.T.R.A.W Host 5th Annual Girls Leadership Conference.
Held every year in March, this event is attended by junior and senior high school females (as well as college-aged young women) throughout New Providence and the Family Islands. This year the conference was held on Friday 13 March 2009 at Superclubs Breezes Resort. The conference began at 9:00am and ended at 5:00pm.
"Heralded as the premier conference for teen girls and young women, it is the brainchild of S.T.R.A.W. Inc. Center for Young Women (Terry Cunningham's youth development organization).
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My friend was
young and ambitious, and she wanted to make a great impression on her interview
at the bank, so like we say in the Bahamas she put on all her clothes.
On the day of the
interview you should have seen her:
Coach bag and
briefcase, black fishnet stockings with brown suit, 2 rings on each hand, thick
stilettos shoes, 4 bracelets on her hand with her favorite oversized watch and
full make-up. She looked at herself in the mirror and proclaimed “I’m Smokin!”
as she skipped out of the door! She was smoking all right, in fact too hot to
handle. HR never called her back for a second interview.
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I first encountered “professionally busy syndrome” last year when working with one of my corporate clients. During the need analysis process I met with various team members to conduct one on one interviews, but there was this one member of staff who, no matter how hard I tried he “just couldn’t fit me in”. “Stacia I’m so sorry, you just can’t begin to understand how busy I am!” he said. “I have meetings with clients all day, I have to complete A, B, C project, and I don’t have any help”. “Then why don’t you ask for help?” I enquired. He then went for fifteen minutes to explain how there was no one else in the department who was qualified to help, how this team members lacked experience and would only slow him down… blah, blah, blah”, his excuses was endless. His behaviour was typical of someone suffering from “professionally busy syndrome”.
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