NATIONAL CAREER DEVELOPMENT MONTH EVENT!

Lunch

Networking

Poster and Poetry Creation for NCDA Contest

Speaker and Professional Development

Speaker: R. David Fass, Assistant Professor at Air Force Institute of Technology, "And There I Was…: A Storytelling Approach in Job Interviewing"

FRIDAY, NOV 8TH 2019 | Noon TO 3:30PM

GRANDVIEW PUBLIC HEIGHTS LIBRARY, COLUMBUS

ALL ARE WELCOME TO ATTEND THIS FREE EVENT!

*No CSWMFT CEUs; GCDF and other certificate/license holders can get a record of attendance

"And There I Was…: A Storytelling Approach in Job Interviewing"

Stories are very powerful.  Humans connect, learn, persuade, entertain, and inform through stories.  Stories are how we remember; we tend to forget lists and bullet points.  Join us for a workshop designed to help take advantage of the power of storytelling in the context of job interviews, résumé building, and career counseling. 

First we will discover the surprising method that the US Government hires its top executives (hint:  it involves storytelling).  Next we will explore the Challenge-Context-Action-Result model, which is designed to help job seekers craft meaningful and relevant stories to use in résumés and job interviews.  Finally, we will participate in a hands on exercise making use of the model.  Participants will be provided a useful set of tools for consultations.

About the guest speaker: R. David Fass, PhD:

Dr. David Fass is an Assistant Professor of Cost Analysis and Systems Integration at Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT).  At AFIT, he teaches Decision Analysis, Risk Analysis, Managerial Economics, Engineering Economics, and a capstone seminar in Cost Analysis.  He also facilitates Master’s Thesis research projects, spending many hours teaching technical writing, research methods, and statistics.  Additionally, he serves as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Management for Wright State University.  For the MBA program at WSU he currently teaches Managing for Creativity and Innovation, and has taught Leadership, Organizational Behavior, and Organizational Development and Change classes in the past.  His research interests include storytelling, innovation and technology transfer, cost estimation modeling, Bayesian statistical methods, subjective probability, and decision making under uncertainty.  For fun he listens to audiobooks, runs on trails, and lifts weights.  His big learning project right now is to teach himself how to code using R, an open-source statistics software program.