Establishing a connection: This is about more than just building personal relationships, but also aligning your project with the unique values and objectives of the specific family office you're working with.
MISTI program managers will work closely with you to find a host and project aligned with your skills and interests.
Consider sponsoring a "day of giving" in the community, where customers, clients, and employees can work together to complete a volunteer project aligned with your CSR.
Before you do, explore whether you can work remotely or shift your hours, take a different position with responsibilities more aligned with your new realities, or become a project-based consultant.
Sign up for professional development, ask to take on more projects that align with your strengths, and stay sharp on current industry trends.
Instead, we can be very strategic in the talent we bring in to assure our collective skill set perfectly aligns with the project.
For any graduate student who is thinking of joining a Bass Connections project in a membership or leadership role, my advice is to embrace the opportunity even if the project doesn't overtly align with your current research.
In this sense, it aligns with projects like Miley Cyrus's spastic, surprise "Dead Petz"; Willow Smith's art-house album, "Ardipithecus"; or Erykah Badu's "But You Caint Use My Phone" mixtape, from last year.
Both were strategic in gathering a follower base that fit their target audience and aligned with each project's mission.
Among the dozens of nonprofit groups aligned with the project are CARE, World Vision and the Girl Scouts of the USA.
In addition to mentor consultation, it is often advisable to consult with the Director of the Scholarly Concentration area most aligned with the project.
