Career Relaunch

26 January 2021 digital

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Career Relaunch

The conference for relaunchers and career transitioners.

Talks, a job fair, job speed dating and workshops - Career Relaunch 2021 is designed to inspire you.

Be a part of it – whether as a company representative or an individual.

Workshop in advance

CV & LinkedIn - Your business card for relaunching your career

How do I design my CV and why do I need LinkedIn? Take part in this virtual workshop, then get to work. With your updated CV and new LinkedIn profile you can apply to attend the UBS Career Comeback Interview Workshop (voluntary). UBS will then select the best talents from these applications for its program.

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26^th of January 2021
Inspiring Morning

Top-class speakers from business, academia and politics will share their thoughts and expertise on career relaunch and career transitions.

09.00 - 09.05
Let’s get started!
Dr. Patricia Widmer, Head of Diversity & Management Programmes, Universität St.Gallen
09.05 - 09.15
Welcome Address
Carmen Walker Späh, Regierungsrätin of the Canton of Zurich
09.15 - 09.45
Keynote Speech
Sigrun Gudjonsdottir
09.50 - 10.00
Presentation of Returnship Program
10.00 - 10.10
Re-Ignite Return-to-Work Program
Johnson & Johnson
10.10 - 10.30
Break

10.30 - 10.40
Career Comeback Worldwide
UBS
10.40 -10.50
Women Back to Work Programme
Vanessa Gentile, Alliance & Channel Lead, Salesforce Switzerland
10.50 - 11.00
Migrant women in networks of the world of work - the professional mentoring programme of the Christian Peace Service (cfd) for well qualified migrant women.
11.00 - 11.10
NextGen Professionals Program
ServiceNow
11.10 - 11.20
Q&A Time
11.25 - 12.15
Career Empowerment
These companies are committed to supporting career relaunches.
Awarding of the 1st Career Empowerment Label

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Creative Afternoon

Take part in workshops to empower your job search or explore the possibilities of a career transition.

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Speakers & Moderators

Vanessa
Gentile

Sigrun
Gudjonsdottir

Sigrun Gudjonsdottir is a leading mentor for online entrepreneurs in Europe, TEDx speaker, and moderator of the Sigrun Show podcast. Although she has no entrepreneurial background, she made a life-changing call and asked to become CEO of a software company after completing her Masters in Architecture - and she got the job! Three Masters degrees and several CEO roles later, Sigrun found herself in Switzerland. In 2014 Sigrun started her online business. Her flagship is SOMBA, Sigrun's Online MBA. Other programs include SOMBA Momentum, a group coaching program, VIP Mastermind, and the Red Circle, the first million dollar mastermind for female entrepreneurs in Europe.

Catherine
Pfaehler

Catherine Pfaehler, lic.oec.HSG (business administration, human resources, organization) worked as a business organizer and trainer in an insurance company and was also managing director of a sustainable furniture workshop. Since 2011 she has headed the administrative office of cfd - the feminist peace organization. Her assistant is a well-qualified migrant for 6 months at a time. In the project "Migrant Women in Professional Networks", which was started in 2007, Catherine has been working since September 2019 to raise awareness in the private sector and to expand access to the Swiss labor market for well-qualified migrant women.

Prof. Dr. Gudrun
Sander

Gudrun Sander is Titular Professor of Business Administration with a special emphasis on Diversity Management, Director of the Competence Centre for Diversity and Inclusion, and Academic Director at the Executive School of the University of St. Gallen. She conducts research on diversity and inclusion issues from the perspective of strategy, leadership and corporate culture, heads the national Diversity Benchmarking and is an academic expert in various international and national committees.

Carmen
Walker Späh

Carmen Walker Späh is a member of the Zurich Government Council and Head of the Department of Economic Affairs. Before that she was president of the women’s division of the FDP Liberal Party of Switzerland. She holds a law degree from the University of Zurich and worked as an independent attorney in Zurich until 2015. In her role as a member of the cantonal government, she represents the Canton of Zurich as a member of the Board of Directors of the Zurich Airport AG and as President of the ZVV Transport Council, the Metropolitan Conference and the Greater Zurich Area Foundation.

Dr. Patricia
Widmer

Patricia Widmer studied business administration at the University of Zurich, majoring in banking and finance. She worked for several years in private banking at a major Swiss bank. During a stay abroad in the USA and in Germany she worked in leading positions for various charitable organizations.

Patricia is now Programme Director for Diversity and Management Programs at the Executive School of the University of St.Gallen. She teaches, moderates panel discussions and gives lectures on diversity & inclusion and unconscious bias.

Tickets

Price for a day pass to Career Relaunch digital, including a workshop in advance:

CHF 125.-

And all this is included:

CV & LinkedIn workshop in advance
A whole morning packed with top-class presentations
Afternoon workshops to choose from
Inside look into the UBS Career Comeback Program

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Digital means...

This year the Career Relaunch conference will take place exclusively online, as the health of everyone is very important to us. After registration, you will receive all the details for the event broadcast as well as login information in time for the event.

If you have any further questions please do not hesitate to contact us:
Career Academy
Sarah Lenz
career.relaunch@unisg.ch