'Broad Advantage' tagged blog posts in Marlena Hubley's Blog

Broad Advantage kicked off to a great start today in New York City. 100+ girls from over 80 of the world’s leading colleges and universities converged upon the Kimmel Center for Broad Advantage. The sponsors for the five-day event include Bloomberg and Lehman Brothers at the Platinum level, Credit Suisse at the Gold level, JPMorgan at the Silver level, and TD Amerirade, GSC Group, Capital Group, Arcapita, and Sigular...

On Wednesday we kicked off the day at Macquarie where we heard four Macquarie female employees talk about their careers.

After lunch we heard from Taye Morris from UNSW Careers and Employment about “Making the Most of Your University Career Services.” Taye emphasized that career help from a Career Services Office is free while one is a student, but that afterward many colleges only offer such services for a fee....

On the second day of Broad Advantage, Amanda Wilson spoke about her career in journalism. She spoke about how addictive working in journalism can be and the importance of journalists to be curious about people and the world around them. She spoke of journalism as a stressful job with huge demands on your life. No one becomes journalist for money. But the upside is huge: exposing...

Day 2 of our Broad Advantage program in Sydney, Australia was a blow out success. This blog post will focus on today’s first speaker: Gary Bertwistle, the Founder of the Vault and author of ‘Who Stole My Mojo.’ He challenged the audience to change their mindset and to pro-actively work on a daily basis towards developing your Mojo and becoming a successful leader.

Gary admitted that most of the speeches...

Today was the first day of our Broad Advantage program in Sydney, Australia (July 7-9th). We had girls attending from the world’s leading colleges and universities, most notably the University of Hong Kong, University of Melbourne, University of Sydney, University of New South Wales, Singapore Management University, USC, National University of Singapore, Monash University, University of Wollongong, University of Technology, Sydney. The event was sponsored by Lehman Brothers...