First Lecture Schedule and Location: March 16th, 15:50, Room 0224

Second Lecture Schedule and Location: March 18th, 15:30, Room 0204

Report Content:

The continuous cultivation and improvement of your workplace abilities are closely related to your employment capability. The training and development of workplace-related abilities are woven throughout your entire education and employment stage, and even throughout your entire life. Therefore, continuous ability development and constantly breaking through your own ability boundaries is a challenge, an opportunity, and a constantly dynamic process for everyone in every different career stage.

The core of this lecture includes:

The impact and opportunities of technology and innovation on the development of society and the economy, and on career development.

How to build your own ability model and continuously dynamic training and development.

How to understand the importance of constructing a competency list from the perspective of understanding company talent development.

How to use a competency list to successfully crack employment interviews.

Speaker Introduction:

Chen Guanqi has more than 20 years of solid work experience in business operations and management consulting across different industries in China and North America, including enterprise executive management and development training, student career development education and training, retail, financial services, medical and health industry, and Chinese Internet entrepreneurship. His main responsibilities focus on enterprise strategic planning, marketing and sales, optimization of excellent business operations processes, and enterprise organizational change. He provides consulting services for Chinese enterprises' overseas business expansion (investment, acquisition and merger, and overseas financing), as well as helping and supporting Canadian and Chinese entrepreneurial projects in the construction and implementation of new business models.

Currently, Chen Guanqi works at the Career Development Center of Schulich School of Business, where he is responsible for developing a systematic training program for undergraduate and graduate students in career planning, job skills improvement, and career development. Prior to this role, Chen Guanqi worked at the Executive Education and Training Center-International Business Department of Schulich School of Business, where he was responsible for designing the framework for training and managing courses for government officials and high-potential talents in leadership development, core competency development, and corporate transformation. He also led the team in building a pool of qualified teachers for these courses and provided follow-up feedback to improve the effectiveness of the training. In addition, he was responsible for consulting, designing, and developing training programs for executive clients in Canada and the international market. In his spare time, he participates in the evaluation of entrepreneurial projects for Canadian business incubators and is responsible for project incubation and venture capital investment risk. He also designs short-term overseas experiential and training programs for innovation, entrepreneurship, and career development for undergraduate and graduate students at Chinese universities. Prior to joining the school, Chen Guanqi worked for Nike China, IKEA, Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices China, and Anjia Group (an internet start-up company).

Chen Guanqi holds a Master's degree in International Business Administration from Schulich School of Business at York University in Canada, and he earned his undergraduate degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.