"Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering nad chiseling and scraping and polishing."
- BC Forbes, Founder of Forbes Magazine.
What is a career? Is a career just a series of jobs strung together, or a calculated journey towards the acme of a profession? Back for the second run due to popular demand, we invite 4 professionals from 4 different industries (Public Relations, Video/Music Production, Journalism and Fashion) to share their career journeys and experience. Facilitated by Jared, who represents the younger audience, as well as Terence, who represents the working professionals, it will be an evening of sharing, which will then be followed by the usual networking.
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Here are our speakers.
Public Relations:
Andrew is the Associate Director at ICON International Communications, the largest independent PR agency in Singapore. With over seven years of marketing, editorial and communications experience, he has worked with a number of multinational and local companies, providing communications support across consumer, technology and b2b sectors. Concurrently head of ICON’s social media practice, Andrew is also a part of the ICON Malaysia team and is in charge of the agency’s internship programme.
Fashion:
Paul Khor is the founder of Actually Pte Ltd. Armed with more than 10 years worth of corporate marketing experience, he started his own business (a fashion store) in 2006. Today, ACTUALLY owns 3 retail stores, a distribution in Southeast Asia, an online magazine and soon to be launched in house label.
Journalism:
Terence is the assistant editor of SGEntrepreneurs.com, a website dedicated to covering entrepreneurship in Singapore and Asia. He writes about the latest technology trends in Asia and business influencers who could shape the way we live in the next decade. Beyond technology, he enjoys writing on a wide range of topics and keeping abreast of the latest trends in media. His works have also been published on Straits Times, Today, The Online Citizen, and VentureBeat, just to name a few. He is also the co-founder of New Nation(http://newnation.sg/), a news parody website.
Video Production:
David Liu started making films when he was 14, and has since directed and produced over fifteen films. His works have gained him recognition in several film festivals such as the Los Angeles Movie Award, Canon DV Fest, Singapore Creative Awards, The New Paper First Film Festival and as well as among other independent and professional filmmakers both locally and internationally.
Besides producing, directing and editing, David was also involved in the prop-making industry, having been mentored by the Australian prop-makers of Star Wars Episode 2, when it began production in Sydney. David is currently running 'Team David Films' (W:www.teamdavid.com.sg, FB: http://www.facebook.com/teamdavidfilms) with his team of seasoned and close-knitted crew. His company produces corporate, commercial and ministry films.
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We strongly urge those who have just started on their first or second career (or on the verge to) , as well as those that are very established in their career to participate in this event, as the networking will only serve to create opportunities and potential mentor-mentee partnerships.
This event is free-entry In addition, all house-pours will also be on a one for one promotion for all participants.
Where? - Rewind Bar, 21 Tanjong Pagar Road, #01-05, Singapore 088444
When? - Today, 8pm - 10pm
