Key skills sought by employers following the Global pandemic

Join us in a discussion with industry experts on what skills our graduates need when entering the workforce.

The RMIT Digital Education Engagement Initiative (DEEI) is organising another series of webinars in 2023. The first webinar, "Key skills sought by employers following the Global pandemic" will take a deep dive into the complex and sustained issues the pandemic has had on the workforce and how we can ensure our graduates are ready for a 'post-pandemic' workforce. 

This event includes expert speakers from diverse sectors of human endeavours to talk about how the skillsets of its people have been adapting to the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Discussions will give us insight into:

What kind of soft and professional skills employers are looking for.

The advice that external employers would like to provide to RMIT to help prepare graduates to enter the workforce with the skills required now and into a rapidly changing future.

WorkLife balance in different sectors of human endeavour.

Our speakers:

Klaus Veil, President of the Australian Council of Professions and Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Computing, Engineering & Mathematics, Western Sydney University.

Meghan Leigh, ANZGOG (Australia New Zealand Gynaecological Oncology Group) Study Coordinators Committee Chair

Mark Seddon, Manager, Solutions Architecture, Amazon Web Services, (AWS).

David Pook, Melbourne Centre Manager, Boeing Research and Technology.

The presentations by our industry speakers will be followed by a panel session that will be facilitated by Professor Kerryn Butler-Henderson, Director, Digital Health Hub, School of Health and Biomedical Sciences, STEM College, RMIT University.

About the RMIT Digital Education Engagement Initiative

In 2022, the DEEI organised a series of webinars that discussed the challenges RMIT staff and students faced and were continuing to experience during and after the COVID pandemic lockdowns. Such issues looked at disruption, isolation, and uncertainty with the instability of returning to campus.

The first event in this 2022 series, addressed similar issues from purely a student perspective, while the second event looked at similar issues from purely an academic teaching or research staff perspective. The final and third event hosted professional staff and provided an opportunity for them to express their views on what the future of the campus would look like from a provocative angle that would challenge any status quo.

This year, DEEI will host 3 webinars. The second will be on 'mental health' with the third and final on the impact of 'ChatGPT'.

This event is organised by Professor Michelle Spencer (Acting Chair), Distinguished Professor Magdalena Plebanski, Professor Matt Duckham, Professor Kerryn Butler-Henderson, Professor Xavier Mulet, Michelle Nicolo and Jennifer Buhagiar.

And supported by the RMIT University's STEM College, Biomedical and Health Innovation, Information in Society, Advanced Materials, Manufacturing and Fabrication and Enabling Impact Platforms

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