Category: Professional Development
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In Search of the most Fluent and Persuasive…
The project STRIDE, initiated by the club’s Professional Development Avenue, concluded successfully, with the inter-university prepared speech contest- ELOQUENCE 2021. This contest was held as the last phase of Speaker STRIDE and was organized in collaboration with the SLIIT Gavel club. The main objective of the competition was to provide a platform for the expression
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Bring life to creativity
A photograph can speak a million words they say. Imagine how many words a beautiful video could speak. If you swipe through your image gallery you would have thousands of videos and photos scattered across numerous albums. You might have always wanted to compile these together, give a cinematic touch, create a vlog, make a
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Discover the “Speaker” in You
Let’s admit it. From the fear of insects to needles, most of us have a fear that we don’t want to admit out loud because we’re a little embarrassed by it. Did you know that an average person is more scared of speaking in public rather than dying? On the 30th of April, the Rotaract
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Let’s get creative
Adobe Photoshop is an amazingly powerful and complete program for working with digital artworks, photography, as well as it provides powerful editing tools that are capable of just about anything, and it is surprisingly easy to learn too. Adobed! is a program conducted and organized by Rotaract Club of SLIIT to teach you the basic
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Research paper writing and publishing
All of us will be facing or have faced the struggles of writing the final research paper for our degree at a certain point of our undergraduate life. Sometimes we can be in situations where we tend to refer to sources that are not credible, have lack of guidance in deciding a topic, conducting a
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CV Writing and Interview Etiquette
Getting ready to enter the workforce after your studies can be tedious on its own without the added stress of wondering whether your CV is up to standard. The CV or resume is generally the first impression potential employees leave on employers and recruiters. The next big step of course, is facing the interview. On
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Panel discussion on Entrepreneurship
A panel discussion was held on the 17th of January 2021 to uncover the entrepreneur within us. This session marked the beginning of ‘Corporate Stride’, the 2nd phase of STRIDE. Three amazing panelists joined with this discussion over Zoom, which had about 70 participants. Speakers: Mr. Tharindu Amarasekara, the CEO and founder of TAC, a
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MICROSOFT PRODUCTIVITY SUITE FOR UNIVERSITIES
Remember the days where you switch on your desktops just to use MS Paint? Then once you get a little techie (you thought) you would have gradually started using Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, and things went on to get fancier every other day. Ever since then these softwares (minus MS Paint) would have inch by
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Stress management
On the 20th of December 2020, a Q&A session on Stress Management was conducted in order to learn the techniques and strategies that could help us cope with stress. This session was held under Persona Stride via Google Meet, had over seventy attendees, who were able to submit their questions via Instagram and they were
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Time management
It is never an easy task to manage one’s time and do all that have to be done with the busy schedules of the modern world. Impatience, indecisiveness, poor performance and poor punctuality are all reflections that you are struggling with improper time management. Mr. Pulasthi Panamgama joined with STRIDE on its fourth phase, to
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Personal Branding
‘BRAND’, what is the first thing that crosses your mind when you hear this word? Nike? Apple? Ralph Lauren? Now why did not you ‘YOURSELF’ cross your mind? Is it because you are not a brand? First of all, can a person be a brand? If yes, then how? To answer these question Rotaract Club
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STRIDE – Phase 01 & 02
STRIDE, an initiative by the Rotaract Club of SLIIT aiming to enhance the personality, confidence and corporate presence of undergraduates around Sri Lanka. In simpler terms it’s a great “STRIDE” towards brilliance. Stride is a monumental initiating considering the depth of detail that it attempts to fulfill. It consists of 3 main phases each concentrating
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Global Diplomacy Post COVID-19🌍
During this period of lockdown due to Covid’19 outbreak the mankind had to witness a major twist in their lifestyles. We got to see the downfall of many powerful and technologically improved countries in front of Mother Nature. Some may say we are paying the penalty for our own deeds and some may say Mother
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Be a skilled mentor!
Have you ever seen an Iceberg? An iceberg is not just what is visible. It’s only a smaller section above the waterline and a larger invisible section lies below the waterline. There’s a lot stronger and a huge part which is invisible and least concerned and unattended. Have you heard of “Volunteerism”? If not get
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TEAM-ALPHA 4.0 🍃
Not often do you come across an experience that challenges your body, mind and all your senses, and subsequently leaves you with a strange sense of longing and a whole lot of leech bites~🌚🔥 Team Alpha, hosted for the 4th consecutive year by the Rotaract Club of SLIIT, was anything but the leisurely stroll in
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