Shape Your Career- the Interactive talk held in a remarkable way

Showing the pillars of the success of the professionals in IT industry, "Shape Your Career" interactive talk organized by IEEE WIE Sri Lanka section was held on 15th May 2017 at Cake Labs in a spectacular manner. The event took place from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. The hosting partner of this event was IEEE WIE Student Branch Affinity Group of UCSC with the sponsorship of Cake Labs. The event was organized with the intention of giving precious and valuable advices to shape the career of the participants.

The distinguished guest speaker was Dr. Jeewika Ranaweera, Principal Hardware Engineer of Oracle, San Jose, USA. There was another session on leadership and that was conducted by Mr. Nirmal Kumarasiri, Director-Operations at CakeLabs. The participation was about 50 students from universities in all over the country. This event was mainly focused on advising and giving instructions for the females who will be going to the industry in order to form their future career. Actually, speakers were able to uplift the motivation of the females who are willing to engage with IT industry. They basically discussed how to move with the industry people as females, how we should face to the challenges and ways of identifying strengths and weaknesses through their life experiences. Especially, we were given instructions how to manage and how to balance the professional life and personal life since the audience was females. They conducted their speeches with interesting stories.

It is sure, that the talk generated courage, motivation and lifetime experience to the participants. It actually got a tremendous success and the success was determined by the people who joined hands with the event such as guest speakers, audience, sponsors and all other people who have contributed us. 

Article By: Pramodya Weerakoon