CANDIDATE FOR AIPG NATIONAL EARLY CAREER PROFESSIONAL
Candidate for AIPG National Early Career Professional
Hannah
Blaylock ECP-0679
Christiana, Tennessee
To start, I would be remiss if I did not say how excited I am to be nominated for the 2022 AIPG Executive Committee Young Professional position. This is a great opportunity to promote an organization with such valuable resources for students, educators, professionals, and early career professionals such as myself, and I am grateful to be considered.
As a student at Tennessee Tech University, we did not have a student chapter of AIPG and thus, I was not familiar with its importance in professional development. My first interac- tion with AIPG was during the Geological Society of America Conference in 2016. I stopped at the informational booth to have a chat with those stationed members to better understand what AIPG had to offer. I began to form relationships at each conference with other members of AIPG. However, because there was no chapter at my University, I was reluctant to take advantage of its resources and had no clear path to take advantage of the opportunities. As a young professional, I wish I had a better opportunity to become involved as I now recognize how important it is to my career.
During my time at Tennessee Tech, I was elected president of our campus-based Geo Club which was designed to encom- pass all areas of geoscience. This club offered several helpful resources to further my career and prepare me for the post- graduate world. This club would have been a great starting point to introduce an AIPG student chapter section. Combining the departmental comradery with the outside resources of AIPG would have been a significant asset in furthering student involvement in the broader geoscience community. If I were to be chosen for this position, my main goals within the AIPG would be to introduce the valuable relationships and benefits of developing AIPG student chapters to smaller collegiate schools and to allow those schools to develop relationships with larger student chapters at other Universities.
Enhancing or creating programs to assist students at small- er universities to utilize a student membership to advance
the profession is an integral part of sustaining the organiza- tion. AIPG would be a valuable addition to small universities that may not have the resources or direction to start student chapters. In my opinion, the best way to accomplish this goal is to simply listen to the needs of students and have local members of the AIPG participate in a mentorship program. As an organization, I would help seek the student’s needs and concerns by asking what the AIPG programs can do to assist them in their careers and prepare them for the outside world. Student chapters are vital to a vision of sustaining our current programs.
However, it is not only the students who need AIPG for guidance. After graduation, I found difficulty at finding my first geoscience position. I found that my experience is one
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After having found my career position, I better understand the impor- tance of the AIPG and the tools they offer young professionals.
most new graduates share. After having found my career position, I better understand the importance of the AIPG and the tools they offer young professionals. I believe I could help implement programs that could be helpful to students to connect with potential employers, have mentors review their resumes, introduce members to other members in their local community for encouragement and support to know they are not alone. Connecting young professionals with one another is another great way to further help those who need it and in turn keeps the membership of the AIPG youthful.
To summarize, coming from a smaller school and being a young professional new to my field, it is my mission to be the voice of those who have been in the same position as myself. I want to introduce the idea of AIPG to those who may not understand its importance or what it can do for them. I want to do everything in my capacity to help those who need resources and spread the influence of AIPG to those about to enter the work force. I further wish to bring young people together to help each other- those in the industry and those who are searching. Any progress in these areas would be something for myself, and more importantly, AIPG to be proud of. Conversely, it allows the membership of the AIPG to be sustainable and reinvent itself as new members push us into a new age.
Again, I am humbled to be considered for this position and, if elected, I would do everything in my power to represent young students and professionals in our industry. It would be my honor to receive your vote for the young professional position for the 2022 AIPG executive community. Thank you for your consideration, and I hope to serve all of you soon.
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Apr.May.Jun 2021
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