young, ambitious, and completely lost on how to advance in your profession: srm young professionals
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Young, ambitious, and completely lost on how to advance in your profession:
Join the Young
Professionals
Conclave
Getting from here to there
Ambitious and full of Energy
The Successful Range Professional and
Contributing to SRM
Are you Lost?
Good advice
“Hey old timer… how do I excel in
Range Management?”
“Get involved in SRM”
SRM’s Young Professionals Conclave (YPC)
YPC is designed to help SRM student members
transition to be productive and contributing
members of the Society of Range Management.
Mission Statement: “Develop a continuum which maintains/improves information exchange and
experience sharing among generations within SRM to promote strength in leadership, education, research,
and stewardship of rangelands and associated resources.”
Symbiotic relationship
You YPC
Networking
Fresh perspectives on range
management
How does YPC fulfill its mission?... Networking. Networking. Networking.
YPC Business Meeting
Meet with the all-stars of the range profession
- Present and former SRM presidents and other leaders of the society
- Agency leadership
- The best ranchers and business leaders in the range profession.
How does YPC fulfill its mission?... networking…
YPC Social
- a causal gathering (usually at a restaurant) to give you an opportunity to get to know your peers from around the society.
Many other networking opportunities
How does YPC fulfill its mission?... “I would like to go to the national meetings, but I don’t have the funding.”
YPC can help!
Two travel scholarships of $500 are awarded each year to help pay for meeting expenses.
Where can I find information? … On the Young Professionals Conclave page at rangelands.org
Other resources Webpage
Facebook page
Newsletter
LinkedIn (SRM)
float ideas on social media to get feedback from your peers
The YPC and SRM need you! YPC Leadership – President, VP, Committee chairs
YPC and SRM Newsletter
Organize symposia and workshops
SRM needs the your inspiration
- membership
- technical committees
YPC Leadership YPC President
- Travel to Washington DC to visit with agency and department leaders
- VIP social at the National Meeting
“I was unbelievably lucky to be
attending [this] meeting with [the Under Secretary “Butch” Blazer]”
What do you need YPC to be… 1. YPC is young, organized in 2006. Help us make it Better!
2. We are currently forming a state section to the YPC.
Who can join?
Questions?