AFROPOLITAN X NEAR PROTOCOLS X NSBE WORKSHOP

​Afropolitan, Near and UofT’s National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) are hosting a careers workshop. Engineers from companies such as Atila, Wealthsimple, Shopify and Oliver Wyman will share their career journey, personally review your Resume, LinkedIn and Github profile. An Afropolitan x Near project will be shown as an example to show how you can talk about your technical projects in your resume, portfolio and interviews.

​During this workshop, students will learn essential career skills such as:

• ​Have your resume, LinkedIn and Github personally reviewed by engineers who have worked at companies like Wealthsimple, Shopify, RBC, Oliver Wyman

• ​1-1 sessions with engineers and consultants who have worked at companies like Safe, Wealthsimple and Shopify

• ​Live walkthrough of a real-life resume review and case study of a coding project built with Afropolitan and Near and how to talk about it in your resume and Github and LinkedIn

• ​Same resume templates and Github and LinkedIn case studies for you to use

​Agenda

• ​6:00-6:15: Introductions and career stories

• ​6:15-6:30: Learn principles of a good resume, LinkedIn and Github portfolio

• ​6:30-6:45: Explore an example of a good resume, LinkedIn and Github based on an Afropolitan x NEAR project

• ​6:45-7:45: Do a personalized live review of your resume, Github and LinkedIn

• ​7:45-8:00: Conclusion and Q&A

​Mentors

• ​Tomiwa Ademidun - Founder at Atila. Ex-Wealthsimple. Software Engineering and Business, Ivey Business School, Western University.

• ​Akin Shonibare - Software Engineer at Shopify. Computer Software Engineering at Queen’s University.

• ​Kitan Ademidun - Consultant at Oliver Wyman. Computer Engineering and Business, Ivey Business School, Western University.

• ​Nicholas Offer - Software Engineer at Wealthsimple. Computer Science at Waterloo.