Helping Young College Students Develop Their Professional Identity

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Each year, Heart of Los Angeles (HOLA) hosts an annual Alumni Winter Reunion where we gather alumni who are persisting in colleges and careers across the nation and we bring them together for a time to reconnect with their peers and build their professional identities. This year our conference is titled "Your Life in One Page: Demystifying the Professional Resume." During this one-day conference, we will target resume-building as a crucial part of professional success following college graduation. In addition to providing an intensive resume and early career advice support, we are hoping to provide the following workshops to our students:

- Reverse Engineering Your Career (Career Planning)

- Transferring from a Community College

- (Re)Framing Your Personal Narrative

- Understanding Student Loans

- Undocumented/DACA Student Caucus

We are looking for Career and Resume Mentors to work one-on-one with students to refine their resumes (they'll have a draft ready) and help guide our students with industry-specific advice for how to jumpstart their careers.

Heart of Los Angeles, Alumni Winter Reunion will take place on Sunday, December 17th. We are looking for volunteers that can commit to donating their time between 9:00AM - 2:00PM (brunch included!) to helping HOLA youth. There is no additional prep work; we'll provide a volunteer training the day of the conference.

If interested, please email Volunteer Coor dinator Brigitte Leyva, at bleyva@heartofla.org