2017 SAPA CDWJob Fair
Breakout Sessions
Coaching Sessions
NetworkingOnward and Upward
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Onward and Upward
Advance Your Career Amid Changes
2017 SAPA
Career Development WorkshopJob Fair
Breakout Sessions
Coaching Sessions
Networking
Sino-American
Pharmaceutical
Professionals
Association
Saturday, May 20, 2017
Rutgers Business School
100 Rockafeller Road
Piscataway, NJ 08854
2017 SAPA CDWJob Fair
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2017 SAPA CDW Overview
A premier career day with multiple events focus on the participants’ needs• “To foster the career growth of pharmaceutical professionals” is one of SAPA’s core
missions
• Significant improvement and many new features from the previous years
• 2017 SAPA CDW is one of the flagship SAPA events
• Job fair with new job openings
• Provide variety of learning formats and networking opportunities
• Tailor to individual needs with more interactions, including breakout sessions,
individual mock interviews, and career coaching
• Expand SAPA’s impact and connection with multiple co-organizers
― Seek collaboration with other professional organizations
― Serve the needs and interests of all the membership and community on career
development and growth
Saturday, May 20, 2017
Rutgers Business School
100 Rockafeller Road
Piscataway, NJ 08854
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Coaching Sessions
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2017 SAPA CDW Program at a Glance
• 8 – 9 am: Registration RBS Front Foyer
Participants and speakers meet and greet RBS 2nd Floor Lounge
• 9 – 11 am: Career Convocation: “The Aha Moment” RBS Auditorium (Room 1095)
• 11 am – 1 pm: Networking lunch Livingston Dinning Commons
• 1 – 6 pm: Parallel breakout sessions with four tracks RBS Classrooms
o 1:00 – 2:30 Parallel breakout session 1 (Room 2071, 3071, 3085, and 4085)o 2:45 – 4:15 Parallel breakout session 2
o 4:30 – 6:00 Parallel breakout session 3
Parallel mini-coaching sessions RBS Team-rooms (Room 2005, 2007, 2009,
2017, and 2020)
Job Fair RBS 2nd and 5th Floor Lounge
• 6:30 – 9 pm: Networking dinner receptions (optional) Various locations
by the sponsor companies
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Confirmed Speakers
• Alka Baha, JD, Attorney at Law and Partner, Fox Rothschild LLP
• Eugene Gentile, Director, Rutgers Business School, Office of Career Management
• Jaclyn Lee, Director of Operations, AIG
• Chi Li, PhD, VP, Global Head Regulatory Affairs Strategy Hematology, Bayer
• Min Li, PhD, VP, Huahai Pharmaceutical
• Eric Rosenson, Sr. VP, Ruderfer & Asso.
• John Sun, PhD, Career Advocate and Global Project Manager, Novartis
• Jane Wang, JD, Associate, Fox Rothschild LLP
• Jin Wang, PhD, Managing Director, Jianxin Capital
• Xingli Wang, MD, Professor at Baylor College of Medicine and Executive Director,
Novartis
• Meng Xu, Career Advocate and Research Scientist, Bristol-Myers Squibb
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Meeting venue• Opened in 2013, the $85 million RBS building ranks among the 20 most beautiful business
schools in the world.
• We thank our collaboration partner RBS to co-host this event, and this state-of-the-art facility will
offer an ideal setting for the workshop.
100 Rockafeller Road
Piscataway, NJ 08854
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Registration; Meet and Greet
• Great interaction opportunities from the very beginning
Registration at the front foyer
Participants to meet the speakers and hiring
managers at the 2nd and 5th floor Lounge
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Career Convocation: “The Aha Moment”
• This two-hour workshop is an all-new forum to kick start the whole day event:
o Get inspired and open your mind to learn
o Discuss the hot topics on career development
o Showcase of the parallel breakout sessions, and highlight of the presenters, and sponsors
The RBS Auditorium can seat 440
people; overflow can be accommodated at
other classrooms with live-stream simulcast
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Networking Lunch
• This is an excellent opportunities to have close interactions with the workshop
speakers and hiring managers, and also a superb chance to make new friends
The Livingston Dinning Commons opens
their door for us to host our participants.
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Job Fair
• No doubt one of the major attractions, we will engage 20 companies come to
recruit the best talents for their needs.
• We will also provide the job opening descriptions to the workshop participants
ahead of time so you can be adequately prepared.
We will utilize both 2nd and 5th floor
lounge areas to showcase the exhibitors
and hiring companies
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Breakout Sessions and Mini Coaching Sessions
• Everyone has different backgrounds and interested topics; therefore we are
gathering the best and most experienced presenters to share their insights to fit
participants’ needs.
• We will organize multiple parallel sessions to explore different themes and address
your concerns.
These class rooms will be utilized to organize great interactive workshops to deep-
dive the career hot-topics. We will also conduct individual coaching sessions in the
smaller team rooms.
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Networking dinner receptions
• We will work with our sponsors to organize dinners receptions in various locations.
• Dinner tickets can be purchased at the registration desk.
Off-site reception will provide additional networking
opportunities.
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A premium career event that you can’t afford to miss
Seating capacity: 500
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