Day two in Dublin started a little earlier than I was prepared for. After chugging some coffee we met at Griffith College for a great presentation by the founder of TalentHub, Ellie.

There was so much resilience in the way she spoke about her job and prospective future jobs for us, as her company works with matching jobs for people and companies. There was a lot of passion, too. It felt like she believed that future workers in our generation and younger were so valuable and could really change the world for the better. My biggest takeaway was that relentless positivity in her demeanor. She also loved to make jokes and create a fun, entertaining environment and that really exemplified her supportive and upbeat personality. I hope to aspire to be a worker that is both successful and happy and passionate about what I do, in the same way as Ellie.

She also talked about competencies in the workplace. For my own part, I think my greatest competencies are my leadership, adaptability, and navigation of ambiguity skills. I am often taking the initiative in situations of doubt which could really help the speed of a future workplace by increasing job performance due to an increase in efficiency. My adaptability skills come from being an immigrant which is a specific experience that teaches so much about priorities and acceptance, which is useful when planning in a potential workplace. Furthermore, my ease to navigate ambiguity is being exercised with my literature degree. This is a “soft skill” that is vitally important to business nowadays as relationships get more and more complex.

As for the last thing we learned, about personal branding, I find that my own branding is made of optimistic dreams for a better tomorrow because I love to make dreams come true. Just like the players of Croke Stadium (which we visited today), I want to be the type of person that is passionate and happy about what I do, and I want that to be evident in the way I communicate and work. The players are not professionals. Their amateur playing means the world to them, and they get sponsored to represent their county in Ireland and make their childhood dreams come true. Without earning commission, they play the game for the love of it, and I aspire to be like that as a professional seeking a work-life balance.

Very excited for tomorrow and hoping the weather holds. See you then.

P.S. The top rows were VERY high up