Young Women of Influence presented Lauren Friese of TalentEgg speaking on “Employment” in their Scotiabank sponsored evening series. The jam packed affair was held at the Fifth Grill, a revamped high-end Western-style restaurant in the Entertainment District.
Lauren Friese
Lauren Friese is the founder of TalentEgg.ca, a true Canadian success story. At 24 years old, Lauren started TalentEgg, Canada’s leading campus recruitment website, as a “response to Canadian students’ need to find meaningful work during school through internships and summer jobs, and after graduation in entry-level roles.”
She was inspired to found this company when she used a similar service as a graduate student at the London School of Economics, but could not find anything similar back home.
Lauren addressing attendees
Although the talk was titled “Employment” and Friese’s job is about helping people find the right job, her speech was much more focused on how to be an entrepreneur. In her quirky, charming style, she spoke about her own journey to entrepreneurship and shared insight on her success. Her words were peppered with fun anecdotes of her short-lived acting career to her days of reading Seth Godin’s tips on marketing (“Make something remarkable and that will be your cost of advertising rather than buy ads”) to her belief in hustling (“doing what you need to do to get ahead”) and overcoming challenges like establishing credibility and building a team.
Karman Lau and Celia M. Lectora
Despite her enormous success and at such a young age, Friese doesn’t seem to take herself too seriously and knows how to embrace her personal, unique style of management (she talks to her team members via skype even when seated near each other in their small office).
Prior to the networking event, Women of Influence President Carolyn Lawrence held a small workshop on “Finding Your Passion.” Lawrence started leading these workshops to help inspire attendees to identify what they really want to be doing in their lives and what is the most logical and efficient way for them to be able to do that for a living.
Carolyn Lawrence, President of Young Women of Influence
Somewhat based on her own graduate school application process which helped guide her to her own passion, this course is truly led from the heart.
Lawrence leads you through a series of exercises that build your self-portrait and aid you in visualizing your optimal self. Then, the workshop focuses on creating an action plan for execution.
If you are unhappy with your job and unsure what you really should be doing, this workshop is a must attend.
Photo Credit: T. U. Dawood
