Session Information
2009 NACE Annual Conference
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Escape from Corporate America: Career Planning for Entrepreneurs and Renegades
Track : Recruitment/Retention
Program Code: 780
Date: Friday, June 12, 2009
Time: 8:00 AM to 9:15 AM  EST
Location: Bordeaux
SPEAKER :
Pamela Skillings
Description
A recent Gallup survey found that 75 percent of Generation Y respondents dream of starting their own businesses while only 25 percent want to work for someone else. At the same time, the number of college courses in entrepreneurship has grown dramatically in the last decade. And in today's job market, it pays to have an entrepreneurial mindset when it comes to managing your career. But what should career professionals advise entrepreneurial-minded students? And how can employers harness this initiative and creativity? Pamela Skillings, career coach and author of Escape from Corporate America: A Practical Guide to Creating the Career of Your Dreams (Ballantine, 2008), offers strategies for helping today's future business innovators plan and manage their entrepreneurial careers. She also presents best practices for managing entrepreneurial and creative employees.


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