UVic Chapter

We cannot believe the year is almost done!  Our latest event has been our best yet!  Unlimited with Olivia Keane went flawlessly and we want to thank all of our members who came out to GET FIT!  We learned about drinking more water, how to eat the leanest foods for your body and then did a great kick butt workout that can be done in the privacy of your own home.  Our next event is our year end wrap up!  YWiB Uvic Presents: Cheers will take place on Wednesday March 28th at 6pm.  Make sure you RSVP today and check out the Facebook event for more details!

A big thank you to everyone who came out to YWiB UVic Presents: Get Connected 2012. Throughout the night there were many great conversations and I hope everyone had the chance to mingle and network. To all the members who braved the snow, it was great to have all of you come out and we hope you enjoyed yourselves! Another big thank you to all of our special guests: Chanel Chu, David Tapp, Daria Dudek, Teresa Sims, Pararin Rahmani, Elissa B, Sybil Verch, Erin Walsh, Ashley Roulston and Derek Juno! We could not have put this event on without everyone who attended, so once again THANK YOU!

Just to keep everyone on their toes we want to fill everyone in on the upcoming events that YWiB UVic has for the remainder of the term. We have planned
>Dress For Success 2012
>YWiB UVic Spin
>March Philanthropy
>End of the Year Wrap Up

We hope that everyone is as excited as we are for the remainder of the year. We can’t wait for our upcoming events, so stay tuned!

Confirmed Guests Attending
YWiB UVic Presents: Get Connected 2012
Thursday, January 19th- 6pm
Chanel Chu | UVic 4th Year, Co-Founder YWiB UVIC
David Tapp | Eclipse Creative, Account Manager
Daria Dudek | UVic 4th Year, Co-Founder YWIB UVIC
Teresa Sims | Bay Centre, Marketing Assistant
Shelagh Macartney | She-She Bags/She-She Shoes, owner
Pararin Rahmani | Law student UVic, Intern downtown
Elissa B | Victoria Women’s Transition House
Sybil Verch | Investment Advisor, The Verch Group, Raymond James
Peter Ciceri | Executive/CEO Coaching, Peter Ciceri and Associates
Leanna Hill | Volunteer Victoria – Youth Program Coordinator
Erin Walsh | Global Village Consulting, Inc., Consultant
Ashley Roulston | COO of Reef Safe Fish Inc.
Derek Juno | UVIC JDC Co-Captain
Andrew Hall | UVIC JDC Co-Captain

We are looking forward to seeing everyone this Thursday!

Happy New Year Ladies! We hope that you can join us to kick off 2012 by making our Get Connected 2012 event better than ever! It will take place on Thursday, January 19 at the Royal Scot Hotel & Suites, where our Networking Launch also took place. It will be a great opportunity for all of you to network and speak with professionals from around Victoria, students who have just returned from exchange and other Gustavson students you don’t already know. As well, it will be a great start of the hunt for competitive co-op jobs.  There will be refreshments and some food as well. We are so excited to start 2012 with a great event and we hope to see you there!  Non-members are also welcome to attend and will have to pay a fee of $5 at the door.

**Stay tuned for a detailed list of speakers and mentors to be added to the website later this week!**

Happy New Year everyone!! As 2011 is ending and we welcome in the year of 2012, YWiB UVic would just like to ask “Where has the time gone?!” The year 2011 was YWiB UVic’s first full year in motion and what a great year it has been. We would like to thank all of our members, mentors, executives and sponsors for attending events and volunteering the time to help YWiB UVic grow. With all of our 2011 success behind us, we can’t wait for what 2012 brings!.

We would also like to remind everyone that on Thursday, January 19th at 6:30pm our Networking Event will be taking place at the Royal Scot Hotel in Victoria. Stay tuned for more details as this is definitely not an event to miss!

We can’t believe that November has already crept up behind us. This month, YWiB Uvic is putting a focus on philanthropy and dressing professionally.

Join YWiB Uvic on November 17th at 4pm on campus to put together Christmas boxes for Operation Christmas Child. Bring us a few new items that could go into a shoe box for any young child. We will divide up the items and put them into boxes for you! All you need to do is bring us a few little items from either the dollar store, Wal-mart, or anywhere! The foundation recommends school supplies, toys, or anything that you think a child in need might cherish. They do not accept food, used items, playing cards, or liquids.

Join us again on November 23rd at 5:30pm at the Canoe Club restaurant in Victoria to learn how to dress for success! Learn how to:
>dress for an interview
>prepare a presentation
>get ready for a casual meet and greet with a company you’re interested in working for
Find out great tips from young professional women in Victoria!

We are so excited to celebrate this month with great events and we hope you are able to come out and join us!

In October, YWiB UVic participated in Get Pink’d. The campaign invites offices, places of work, schools, clubs or groups to wear something pink and show their support for a future without breast cancer on the second annual Get Pink’d! day, which took place on Thursday, Oct. 27.

A BIG thank you to everyone who donated and bought a Get Pink’d pin! With all of your help YWiB UVic successfully raised $800 for the Canadian Breast Cancer foundation!

All smiles at the Branding Workshop!

In October, YWiB UVic focused on branding, branding, branding! We want to extend a huge thank you to Paul Holmes from Idea Zone who came to help us learn the ways of the web, how to maximize our branding over the internet, and how to get involved with social media. All of the girls learned so much and we are now experts about personal websites, Twitter, Facebook privacy and LinkedIn.

What is a Branding Workshop you ask? Our branding event was similar to modern resume workshop; however, it involved a social media spin. Because so many employers are turning to the internet to find new employees, we thought it would be great if our YWiB girls could get ahead of the game. Paul taught us how to adjust privacy settings, create websites and linked in profiles, update facebook and twitter accounts, and how to portray a good image over the web. Thanks again Paul!

Stay tuned in November for our “YWiB UVic Dressed For Success” event!

Thanks to everyone who came out to celebrate our Networking Launch! It was so much fun and we enjoyed meeting all of the new members. Check out the YWiB UVic Facebook page to check out all of the photos from the event. Next up is our Branding Workshop! On October 19th at 6pm Paul Holmes from Idea Zone will teach us about professionally branding ourselves. He will be talking to us about

>privacy settings for social
>tweeting and Twitter
>personal website creation.

All that will be needed for this event is your laptop and yourself!

*A reminder, if you haven’t paid your membership fee please bring it to the Branding Workshop.

Hi everyone!

Young Women In Business at UVic is back for another year and we are so excited for the 2011/2012 season. We are excited to be recruiting new members this year and will be on the UVic campus on Wednesday, September 14th talking about YWiB.  Look for the girls wearing pink around campus and feel free to stop and ask us any questions you may have! We’ll be giving out goodies so make sure you stop and say hi.

Check out our YWiB UVic Facebook Page for more information and we look forward to seeing you at our events this year!