Using Mentoring and Networking to Build Your Career

Once you have a degree and some job experience, how do you move to the next level? Is training and professional development enough? This webinar features a panel of outdoor recreation professionals from government, nonprofit, private, and academic backgrounds. Panelists will share their experiences with mentoring and networking and how it helped them - and how they helped others - learn more about themselves and how to move forward in their careers.


Learning Objectives
Participants will understand the what a mentor is and how to identify for a mentor
Participants will be able to identify qualities of a good mentor as well as watch-outs in a mentor-mentee relationship
Participants will understand the value of networking in furthering professional development goals


Panelists:
Margaret Bailey - Advisor, CHM Government Services
Michael Bradley - Department Chair, Arkansas Tech University
Parker McMullen-Bushman - Founder, EcoInclusive Strategies
Bob Ratcliffe - Retired, National Park Service

Location

This is a virtual training. See the event website for more details.

Trail Competencies

Relevant Trail Types

General. All trail types are relevant.