Events › Level Up: Leveraging Soft Skills

Leveraging Soft Skills: Uncover the significance of soft skills in career advancement. From effective communication to building robust interpersonal relationships, articulate your key soft skills that make you stand out. Engage in practical activities and role-playing exercises to refine your soft skills, ensuring you make a lasting impression in both interviews and daily interactions in the workplace.

Level Up is a workshop series that teaches empowering skills to navigate the competitive job market, leverage soft skills, and utilize emotional intelligence to prepare for the next level of your career. Participants will engage in mock interviews, benefit from resources shared, and actively participate in peer feedback sessions. The series aims to equip individuals with practical skills and a strategic mindset to succeed in their job search and career advancement endeavors. Workshops will run 70-90 minutes.

Jenny Joseph-Hayle (MPA ‘13) has over 15 years of professional experience in public service beginning with the U.S Department of Agriculture and ending with managing the Commonwealth of Massachusetts $13bn healthcare budget from 2011-2016. After leaving the public sector, Ms. Joseph-Hayle developed her skills as a management consultant for state government agencies, leading projects that ultimately improved business processes and services for consumers of health and human service agencies.

Since 2016, Jenny has been teaching and advising undergraduate & graduate students professional development at a local university, preparing students and alumni for their career journey and development.