Young, Ambitious, and Completely Lost on How To Advance in Your Profession: SRM Young Professionals

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?