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Student name: Nguyễn Chí Cường Student ID number: 20403573

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Unit name: Working in Professions number: 200914
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Lecturer or Tutor name: Nguyễn Thuý Hằng

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Title: Assessment 3 – Activity 3 – Journal

Length: Due date: 23:59, 21st Dec. 2020 Date submitted: 21st Dec. 2020
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 Journal: Professional Careers Conference
Screenshot images
Part 1: Welcome Address and Keynote Presentations
1. Opening
2. Welcome Address

3. Speaker 1
4. Speaker 2

5. Conclusion
Part 2: Breakout Session: Money

1. Opening
2. Speaker 1

3. Speaker 2, 3 and 4
4. Speaker 4

5. Conclusion
How did it make me feel?
Amazement, enlightenment and thankfulness are the feelings that came to me
when I viewed the webinar. Firstly, the professionals brought to me many novel
perspectives on both career development and life values. These viewpoints which are
from highly experienced people forced me to reconsider my own philosophy of life and
work. For instance, Jeremy Khoh’ presentation about seeking appropriate personal
“ladder” and “window” (2020) forced me to reconsider my career choice and to take a
closer look at my intended plan in career development. Secondly, the instructions from
the speakers gave my many useful tips to improve many aspects of my life. The tactics
for effective communication, especially regular breathing (Fenton-Menzies, 2020), will
contribute enormously to my future improvement in communication and concentration. 

What did I learn?

I adopted new life perspectives from the speakers and appreciated their
suggestions and instruction in career development. Firstly, the “Have It All” part from
Sign’s motivational presentation (2020) offered me fundamental guidelines which will be
refined and then applied to reach personal goals by me. In this part, it is discipline that I
focused on because I have been practicing to perfect my intrinsic discipline. My time
and energy have been eroded by distractions so heavily that I feel distressed recently. I
personally confirm his statement that disciplined actions are the root of happiness.
Secondly, “Find Your Ladder and Window” (Khoh, 2020) challenged my misguided
viewpoint and grievous effort denying my own values. I have been trying to live up to
other people’s values, which led to the redundant suspicion. After watching this webinar,
I realized that I have constructed a wrong “ladder”. In other words, I have been unclear
of my priorities in life, and thus I evaluate incorrectly my characteristics. It is because
each hierarchy of priorities has a unique set of characteristics.

What connections can you make to the weekly readings you have
learned so far?
This conference emphasized several weekly portfolios’ reading: “Communication
in the Workplace” (“CiW”), “Networking-It's Always Who You Know” (“NIAWYK”),
“Organising Work Life Balance” (OWLB) and “Jump-Start Your Career” (“JSYC”) (Rentz
and Lent, 2015; Blackett, 2019; Ferrett, 2018) found in 200914 Working in Professions
(Prasad, 2020). Firstly, Leizer (2020) emphasize the importance of networking and
teamwork by sharing the experiences in her daily work in public service, which was a
confirmation of the information in the item “The Formal Network” in chapter “CiW”
(Rentz and Lentz, 2015, as cited in Prasad, 2020, p. 123). Moreover, graduates should
enhance their network by connecting to the people who share the “ladder” with them
(Khoh, 2020), which also agrees with information in section “Networking - It’s always
who you know” (Blackett, 2019, as cited in Prasad, 2020, p. 182-218). Secondly, the
strategies to construct a suitable hierarchy of priorities in life and pick an industry or a
position consciously (Khoh, 2020) is an advanced reasoning that empowers the theories
in “OWLB” (Ferrett, 2018) and “JSYC” (Blacett, 2019) (as cited in Prasad, 2020, p. 483-
549). The “ladder” can be further interpreted as a unique hierarchy of priorities which, in
turn, is heavily affected by the personal unique set of characteristics. The “window” is a
result of the activities throughout the chapter “ECO”. 
 References

Khoh, J., Leizer, T., Smith, C., Fenton-Menzies, D., & Professional Careers Team
(2020, October 9). Professional Career Conference - Spring 2020: Part 2:
Breakout Session: Money [Online]. Western Sydney University - School of
Business, Sydney, Australia. https://youtu.be/vAdV5rTAX-4 
Mahmood, A., Singh, R., & Firth, O., & Professional Careers Team (2020, October
9). Professional Career Conference - Spring 2020: Part 1: Welcome Address and
Keynote Presentations [Online]. Western Sydney University - School of
Business, Sydney, Australia. https://youtu.be/ND_xpuF-5Ag 
Prasad, K. (2020). Jump-Start Your Career. In 200914 Working in Profession (Revised
ed., p. 524-549). McGraw-Hill Education.
https://www.mheducation.com.au/ebook-200914-working-in-the-professions-2e-
customised-9781307615890-aus
Prasad, K. (2020). Networking-It's Always Who You Know. In 200914 Working in
Profession (Revised ed., p. 182-218). McGraw-Hill Education.
https://www.mheducation.com.au/ebook-200914-working-in-the-professions-2e-
customised-9781307615890-aus
Prasad, K. (2020). Organising Work Life Balance. In 200914 Working in Profession
(Revised ed., p. 481-522). McGraw-Hill Education.
https://www.mheducation.com.au/ebook-200914-working-in-the-professions-2e-
customised-9781307615890-aus
 Prasad, K. (2020). The Formal Network. In 200914 Working in Profession (Revised ed.,
p. 123). McGraw-Hill Education.