Hi everyone!
If we haven’t met yet, my name is Puneet Natt and I am the Vice President Internal for the Engineering Society this term. My role within the Engineering Society is to help run many of the social events, academic services and first year mentoring initiatives.
One of my goals as VP Internal is to expand and incorporate more workshops catered to student needs. Resume Critiques was the first workshop, which ran during the first two weeks of school and had a fantastic turnout. We are working on having this as an ongoing service throughout the term where students will be able to book appointments in order to have their resumes critiqued during the continuous rounds of Jobmine. There have also been workshops added this term that work to enhance skills for academic and/or co-op purposes. The new workshop topics added this term are SolidWorks, AutoCAD, Programming and Jobmine. These workshops were created due to student interest and I am hopeful that they will be beneficial to undergraduate engineering students. The Jobmine workshop was specifically added for first year students in order to help them navigate around the Jobmine workshop and apply to their first round of jobs.
Expanding the first year portfolio was also one of my goals for this term. I have been working closely with the First Year Commissioner, Ray Zhao, and the First Year directors in order to expand the mentorship program, host a conference specific to first years and start a first year newsletter. The mentorship program has been designed this term to include events targeted to helping students develop some soft skills while having fun and meeting other first years and upper years. Another way the Engineering Society is helping first years is by hosting the first ever First Year Conference. This conference will be hosted at the university and will work to develop the professional and leadership skills of first year engineering students. In order to stay in touch with all of the first year events happening this term, I would encourage you to sign up for the first year newsletter at: http://bit.ly/newsletterfirstyear. This newsletter will include all the information about first year events along with tips and tricks to help first years transition to university life.
I am very excited for my first on-term as VP Internal and cannot wait to meet so many of you! If you have any suggestions for things you think I can improve on or suggestions for any of the events and services, feel free to email me at vpinternal.a@engsoc.uwaterloo.ca or stop by the Orifice (CPH 1327).
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