The GW-CIBER invites you to:

Interested in an International Career?
Learn How to Market Yourself to Go Global

with Stacie Berdan

Monday, April 13 at:

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With the U.S. job market tightening, perhaps you have considered working overseas as an attractive option to jumpstart or reinvigorate your career. If you have acquired international experience through studies, residences, and internships abroad, if you speak foreign languages and are interested in other cultures - then you may have the fundamental skills to make it in the global marketplace. These two workshops are designed to help you determine if going overseas is right for you and how to use your international experience as a distinct and differentiated advantage in your job search.

Through her original research, many real-life stories and vast network of contacts with multinational organizations, Stacie will provide you with practical and effective advice on:

• Packaging your international skills in order to apply them to the current global business trends and the needs of potential employers
• Devising a plan for an international job search, managing expectations, and setting objectives
  
• Determining which markets, industries, and companies are 'hot' right now
• Networking and writing resumes and cover letters targeting the international job market
• Increasing your odds of going global by developing a global mindset

Now, more than ever, international experience is critical. Learn how to leverage yours, boost your future career options, and enhance your global branding!

Workshops Leader:

Stacie Nevadomski Berdan
Expert on International Careers
Co-author of "Get Ahead By Going Abroad"

Stacie Berdan is a marketing and communications consultant, an expert on international careers, an award-winning author and sought after speaker. Using her unique position working on campuses and in corporations around the world, she helps clients develop perfomrance-based organizational modes to succeed in the changing global marketplace. Focusing on the elements of diversity-driven strageties, she helps emploters and professional effectively deal with cross-cultural enviornments, the benefits of femine leadership and the changing role of managers within the context of an increasingly global and virtual workplace. Stacie serves as an on-call expert for several broadcast outlets and has numerous appearances to her credit, including NBC's "Weekend Today", ABC News "Money Matters" and "America This Morning", CNN International, several FOX appearances, including International and "Money for Breakfast," and national and syndicated radio. In addition, Stacie has been quoted in USA Today, Time, and the Wall Street Journal, International Herald Tribune, and MORE magazine, among numerous others. She is an engaging and lively speaker, sought-after by multi-national corporations, professional organizations and universities around the world. Stacie is a regular contributor to Huffington Post, as well as many other print and online publications. Stacie spent most of her career at Burson-Marsteller, one of the world's leading global communications firms, rising from entry level to senior management. After her tenure atBurson-Marsteller, she went to Unilever, one of the world's largest consumer products companies, where she lead the lead the communications team responsible for strategy and execution of the global brand, as well as integration of multiple business units into one operating unit in North America. During her 20 year career, she has counseled dozens of senior executives at the world's leaing companies internationally-acclaimed non-profit organizations and several foreign governments in the area of strategic business communication. It was her three years in Hong Kong, however, that gave her the oppurtunity to effectively differentiate and distinguish herself. Her professional responsibilities have spanned more than 50 countries in North and South America, Asia-Pacific, and Europe. She has served as coach, counselor, stragist, and adviser to CEOs, heads of states, politicians and senior executives around the world. Her cross-cultural consulting experiences enable her to work well with a diverse mixture of professionals across industry, seniority level, nationality, and gender. She brings a unique perspective to the table as a female leader with international experience in these dynamic times. Stacie received a Bachelor of Arts from Florida Atlantic University in 1988 and completed graduate courses there in 1991. Stacie lives in a 1750 historic home in Glastonbury, CT, with her husband and twin daughters.