Department Alumni Talk: How to Grow Your Career and Professional Life
The Department is excited to welcome back two amazing alumni this semester to talk to current students about their professional experiences and personal growth journeys.
The event will take place on Tuesday, November 25, from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM. It will focus on how to use what you learn in school in the real world and what language skills, professional skills, and certifications are needed for different careers.
Mr. John Chen,the Sales Manager for the Mercedes-Benz Military Vehicle Division. In 2012, he went to California State University, Sacramento (CSUS) to study abroad. In 2014, he got his Master's degree from the Graduate Institute of Strategic Studies at Tamkang University.
In this session, he will speak about what he has learned about the luxury car sector, including the professional problems and practices he has faced. He will also talk about how strategic thinking and an international perspective are important in foreign corporate settings.
Ms. Christina Sung, the second speaker, has her own firm and works in the trade market. From 2012 to 2013, she took part in an exchange program at CSUS. In 2016, she got her Master's degree in the English-taught Graduate Program of Taiwan and Asia-Pacific Studies at Tamkang University.
She loves to travel. She has lived in the U.S. for a long time and previously spent two and a half years traveling throughout the country in an RV, seeing 33 nations in all. After finishing school, she worked in Taiwan's electronics industry before moving on to international commerce and patent design.
In this session, she will talk about her professional and business experiences across borders, as well as how to grow and survive in surroundings with people from other cultures.
By sharing these two alumni's stories, we hope that students will learn about the obstacles and possibilities in the professional world from different points of view and think about how to turn what they learn in school into real-life actions and career paths.
