Third Asian Career Fair and Job Skills Seminar

Sunday, February 15, 2015 (12:30 – 5:30 PM) at CCACC Center

(9366 Gaither Road, Gaithersburg, MD 20877)

Building on the success of previous Asian Career Fair (ACF) events, six Washington DC region Chinese American organizations (CAPA, Monte Jade-DC, OCA-DC, CCACC, TCCGW and NTUAA-DC) once again co-sponsor the Third Asian Career Fair to provide networking and job finding opportunities. This career fair will benefit all Asian American job seekers including Asian international students, Asian American students and Asian American young professionals. The Asian Job Fair is free to all job seekers and participating job exhibitors. Please go to http://tinyurl.com/2015ACF for job seeker registration. For job exhibitor registration, please go to http://tinyurl.com/signup2015ACF. The tentative program is presented below:

12:30 - 1:00 PM: Registration & Networking

1:00 - 1:10 PM: Welcoming Remarks - Edward Wan, Executive Coordinator, ACF Consortium

1:10 - 1:20 PM Opening Remarks: Asian American Employment Opportunities in Federal Government – Sharon Wong, Deputy Director, Office of Diversity & Inclusion, OPM

1:20 – 2:30 PM: Session I - Job Skills Seminar

Session Moderator - Mary Tom, President, OCA-DC

1:25 – 1:40 PM: Winning Resume & Successful Interviews – Jennifer Freeland, Staffing Manager, Planned Systems International Inc.

1:40 - 1:50 PM: You Have Been Invited to Interview - Now What?" Alice Yeh, HR Manager, Acentia LLC

1:50 - 2:00 PM: Web Resources &Job Search Tools – Adam Lee, Fellow, Smith Business School, U. of MD.

2:00 - 2:10 PM: Networking with Peers & Mentors – Alven Lam, Dir. International Markets, Ginnie Mae

2: 10 - 2:25 PM: Work Permit and Visa Requirement – Elaine Chang, President, Law Office of Elaine Chang

3:40 – 5:30 PM One-on-one “Resume Critique and Analysis” – Darryl Tom, Sr. Eng., DHS

2:25 – 4:00 PM: Session II – Job Opportunity & Experience

Session Moderator - George Chang, Cancer Research, FDA

2:30 - 2:40 PM: Winning Team-Players and Leaders in Biomed/Biotech Sectors - George Chang, Can. Res. FDA 

2: 40 -2:50 PM: Diversified IT Job Opportunities – Adam Young, Deputy IT Dir. WMATA

2:50 -3:00 PM: Career in Commercial Real Estate – John Lin, President, CapStar Commercial Realty

3:00  3:10 PM - Alternative Career Path - Creating Your Own Job as an Entrepreneur - Steven Chen, Principal, Blue Venture Investors

3:10 - 3:20 PM: My ACF experience and Benefits - Steve Lin, DSFederal Inc.

3:20 -3:30 PM: Finding Permanent Jobs through Internship - Chih Hsiang Li, Ex., Dir., CCACC Inc.

3:30-3:40 PM: My experience Working for Large Private Corporations - Julia Liu, Former Manager at IBM & Lockheed Martin

3:40-3:50 PM: My Experience Working for Federal Government - Steve Chen, Dep. Of Treasury

3:50-4:20 PM: Q&A & Breakout Discussions – All presenters

3:40-5:30PM: Session III- Networking & Job Fair (Moderator, Chen Yu Yen)

Job Exhibitors will come and set up booths for collecting resumes and conducting interviews