2024 WOC (1795) Climbing the STEM Ladder of Success – Planning Your Next Steps Presented by the U.S. Forest Service

Learning Objectives: Enhance your understanding of different career choices and paths that can help inform your next career steps through an exciting dialogue with outstanding leaders and scientists from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service.   Thinking about your personal and professional goals are critical steps in planning your STEM career in these rapidly changing times. Barriers are being broken and the future looks bright with opportunities for STEM careers. Given this rapid period of change, what should you be thinking about as you plan your career? Join U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service panel members as they share their personal journeys and describe how they approached their career choices, including overcoming challenges and seeking opportunities in different ways.   At the end of this seminar, participants will be better able to: Use what has been shared by panel members as guidance to help build a road map to career success. Understand how making decisions based on personal and professional goals and values can lead to career satisfaction and success. Design next steps in their career plans to select a career path aligned with their personal and professional goals.   Speaker(s): Ashley Thompson  Procurement Analyst Forest Service, USDA Roderquita Moore Research Chemist USDA Forest Service Toral Patel-Weynand  Director, Sustainable Forest Management Research U.S. Forest Service Shaneka Lawson  Research Plant Physiologist USDA Forest Service