Career Jumpstart for creative professionals

A career development event, providing you with actionable insights and strategies to jumpstart for your career development journey! You’ll learn fresh, career-specific content on emerging industry trends, and insights on resume/CV writing, interview preparation, personal branding, and networking, to get you onto a new, and exciting path to career success in today’s competitive market, all served via a conversational approach to learning.

September 18, 2024
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11:00 am
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12:00 pm
PST
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Entrepreneurship
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Christian Garcia-Scheer
Christian Garcia-Scheer
SVP, Creative Strategy, Bank of America

I’m an award-winning creative strategist, proud father of 2, husband, and a kick-ass career coach, bringing global, unique perspectives, and innovative solutions to the conversation. ​From “one-man-show” startups, to Forbes’s 500 Top enterprise companies. He has built and led teams to success for the company as well as fostering great careers within those teams. ​As a career coach, he has successfully helped over 11K people find their way and seized a new career path. ​He hopes to inspire you into taking the first steps into a new chapter in your career journey!

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