KICK OFF YOUR FUTURE – Own Your Career Program is an educational project for young female university students between the 2nd and 3rd year of their undergraduate and their Master’s degree at Universities in Milan: PoliMI, Bicocca, Bocconi and Cattolica and others.
The Program – now in its ninth edition – was created by PWN Milan, a professional women’s association that operates in the realms of networking, leadership, gender diversity, mentoring, and implemented with the support of the companies Shiseido, Prelios and Associazione Dottori Commercialisti.
The Program aims to build a bridge between universities and the world of work, enriching the transition from female student to fully-fledged professional, a delicate moment full of expectations and incognitos. By means of Program activities, PWM Milan aims to stimulate female students into embracing the full potential of this unique moment of their personal and professional life, helping them to experience it as the starting point of a new challenge, with energy and a desire to rise up to the challenge, so that dreams and hopes triumph over fears and insecurities.
In detail, the Program gives female students the chance to meet different women role models working for the partners’ companies, listen to their professional experience and participate to mini workshops guided by PWN Milan on various topics, amongst which human leadership, personal branding, negotiation and how to nail a job interview, all designed to boost their soft skills.
30 female students will be selected for each edition and will participate in the Program following the same training path of scheduled meetings and workshops.
Motivation. Discussion. Ambition. Sharing.
The step in which a female student becomes a fully-fledged professional: a delicate moment filled with expectations and incognitos. Embracing its potential, experiencing it as the starting point of a new challenge, with energy and a desire to rise up to the challenge, is fundamental in making sure dreams and hopes triumph over fears and insecurities.
Through KICK OFF YOUR FUTURE – Own Your Career Program, PWN Milan renews its roles as a catalyst of innovative female projects, building a bridge between universities and the world of work.
MISSION
Motivate. Create Opportunity.
Stimulate ambition and the desire to rise up to the challenge. Build a personal and professional growth path. Contribute towards reinforcing the self-esteem and professionalism of young women who are about to enter the world of work, with initiative and determination.
TARGET
Female university students with a proven motivation and interest in the program, in the second and third year of their undergraduate degree or in a Master’s degree of study, in any study’s field in Milan.
NB: We also accept newly graduates, within 24 months from graduation.
FORMAT
Female students come to the company to meet some role model women, listen to their professional experience and participate in mini workshops guided by PWN. 30 female students will be selected.
TOPIC
Soft skills target.
In addition to keynote speeches by role models there will also be workshops on negotiation, leadership, personal branding and how to nail a job interview.
PARTNERS
PWN is the program owner, a professional women’s network active in the fields of leadership, gender diversity and mentoring. Program partners include role model Companies, with the support of Universities participating female students come from.
APPLICATION
Applications for 2024’s edition are open.
Interested female students can apply by filling out the online form.
They can specify details regarding their training and education path, motivating their decision to apply for the “KICK-OFF YOUR FUTURE – Own your career Program”
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Selected talents:
Applications for 2024's edition are open!
THE 2024 PROGRAM
DAY 1
Navigating professional development in Today’s multigenerational workforce
Today’s workplace is more innovative and dynamic than ever. From access to new technologies at our fingertips – from generative AI to collaboration tools –that uplevel our skillsets and drive better business outcomes, to navigating professional development for younger generations in a remote or hybrid environment, to breaking down gender barriers and instilling confidence to navigate difficult conversations – there are a range of exciting yet complex new challenges we’re up against. In this session our professional coach will lead an interactive conversation that tackles some of today’s most pressing trends, with a lens on how to engage each generation in a way that suits their needs to support a thriving and modernizing workforce.
- Date: 21st october 2024 | 14.00 – 17.00
- Location: Prelios Corporate HQ, Via Valtellina 15/17, Mi
- ROLE MODEL: TBC
DAY 2
Uncover your brand…your superpower!
In order to be future fit for what we aspire to be, we must find our brand and our superpower and learn to market ourselves.
Thinking smarter about what we are known for and how we communicate our brand will have illuminating effects, we just need to uncover our superpower and have the confidence to promote ourselves.
- Date: TBC (NOVEMBER 2024)
- Location: Shiseido Corporate HQ, Viale Abruzzi 94, MI
- ROLE MODELS: Chiara Saccone & Maria Rita Zimmaro
DAY 3
Self-leadership
Never too Young to Lead – Empowering women to embrace early leadership. The importance of self-awareness to learn emotional intelligence and make the right decisions. In an ambiguous and unpredictable environment, it is a must to learn different strategies for defying age biases, making impactful decisions and fostering
growth. Being prepared for only one future is no longer enough. The younger generations can teach us how to step out of our comfort zones and thrive. What skills do we need to develop to be ‘Future Ready Now’, and how can we help these young leaders get there?
- Date: TBC (november – DECEMBER 2024)
- Location: Associazione Italiana Dottori Commercialisti, Via fontana 1, MI
- ROLE MODEL: TBC
Testimonials
Partner companies (previous and current editions)
Media companies
Partner companies
Partner companies
PWN Milan is an independent and dynamic association of international women with diverse backgrounds, cultures, and occupations.
Our mission is to support the advancement of career-minded women in their professional growth and development, offering them the opportunity to exchange knowledge, experiences and best practices.
PWN Milan aims to foster personal and professional development while providing a friendly international forum for networking, skill-building, and mentoring.
PWN Milan has nearly 300 active members with an extended network of 3.500 talented women: managers, professionals and entrepreneurs, STEM graduates and young MBAs, which come from different countries and industries, of all ages and at different points in their career.
We are connected to other 30 PWN City Networks around the world to promote international professional networking and gender balance.
Key initiatives for Personal and Professional development and events for Discussion and Experience Exchange:
- Networking Aperitifs
- Empowering Talk events
- Workshops
- Executive Labs & Training
- PWN Webinars
- Mentoring & Reverse Mentoring Program
- Support to Corporate Social Responsibility Programs
- Own Your Career Program for young female talents
- Engaging Men workshops
- Special parties: Winter Holidays & other Women’s networks
Learn, connect, share, advance globally
PWN MILAN
16, Via Jacopo Palma
20146 Milan