Building Power - Showcasing Yourself (3/3)

The main focus of this workshop is to help students find techniques to Showcase Themselves

For one to showcase themselves they must know how to be confident in their abilities i.e. their skills, unique characteristics, experiences, aspirations, among many more elements. Despite there not being a set of golden rules that students can use to present themselves there are foundational principles that they are not exposed to in academia. This becomes more difficult when transitioning to higher education or to a career setting. We want our first speaker to go over the challenges of being a woman in healthcare leadership while highlighting the importance of confidence and risk taking.

In our scoping review, we came across a phenomenon called the double bind. Essentially, the double bind is the two kinds of judgements that are made about a woman before she is hired. These judgments are based on technical ability and…