About the webinar

While degree courses can help you gain specific technical knowledge and skills, it can be a lot trickier to learn, and then to illustrate, the soft skills which will allow you to succeed in your global development career.

As part of Skills for Tomorrow, Devex invites you to learn more about how you can learn the soft skills needed to stand out to employers and excel in your global development career. During this webinar, experts representing Duke University and the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs will share their insights on how global development professionals can go about developing these important skill sets.

By joining us for this Devex careers webinar, you will learn:

  • The importance of soft skills to your career growth 
  • How to learn soft skills and continue to develop them
  • What employers look for and how to demonstrate your competencies


The panel will also take audience questions. We invite you to share them during the event or in advance by submitting to [email protected].
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The Speakers

Moderator

Kate Warren

Executive Vice President
Devex
When it comes to understanding the global development talent marketplace, Kate is your go-to. The Devex career and recruiting guru in-residence, she has her finger on the pulse of hiring trends across the industry and insider knowledge on what it takes to break in. As an Executive Vice President, she oversees Devex recruitment and career services and leads the strategy for career advice and recruiting insights content across Devex.

Cheryl Bailey

Assistant Director,
Master of International Development Policy
Duke University (DCID)
Cheryl Bailey is responsible for admissions and recruiting for the MIDP program. She earned her bachelor’s in French and Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia, her master’s in Liberal Studies from Duke, and her Ph.D. in Humanities from Salve Regina University. She also spent two years with the Peace Corps teaching math in French in the Central African Republic.

David Carl Robertson

Director of Career Services
UC San Diego’s School of Global Policy and Strategy
David has been working at the School of Global Policy and Strategy (GPS) at UC San Diego since 2005 where he manages the office of Career Services and has an undergraduate degree in Psychology and a graduate degree in Counseling, both from San Diego State University.

Sandra Jennifer "Sandy" Cheeks

Squirrel
From the Surface
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Sandra Jennifer "Sandy" Cheeks

Squirrel
From the Surface
And both of these, if one would tell the truth, were foreordained unto the holy place, where greatest Peter’s follower hath his seat. While on this quest, for which thou giv’st him praise, he heard the things which of his victory the causes were, and of the Papal Robe. The Chosen Vessel went there afterward, to bring thence confirmation in the faith, through which one enters on salvation’s path. But why should I go there, or who concedes it? I ’m not Aeneas, nor yet Paul am I; me worthy of this, nor I nor others deem. If, therefore, I consent to come, I fear lest foolish be my coming; thou art wise, and canst much better judge than I can talk.”
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