2018 WeTech Qualcomm Global Scholars Program - experience sharing

As one of the Qualcomm IIE WeTech scholar, I got not only finalcial support but also an amazing six-month virtual mentorship. These resources helps me a lot with my career in computer science.

At the begining of the program, every scholar is invited to attend the orientation held in Qualcomm Taiwan. That’t the first time I met my mentor, Amanda. We had a lunch before the orientation and talked a lot about my path in CS. After knowing my confusions, she shared serveral useful information and her experience as a manager in Qualcomm. These answers and suggestions from the viewpoint of industry are different from what I got before and motivate me to figure out my career plan. During the orientaion, I learned the history of Qualcomm, visit the Qualcomm office and met other scholars from EE in my university. This is just the start of this awesome journey.

During the six-months virtual mentorship, I discussed lots of career-related topics with my mentor including assessing strengths, career planning, building CV, strenghthening interview skills, networking, enhancing technical and leadership skills. In every milestone, lots of resouces, such as websites, speeches and instructions, are provided to help me to accomplish the worksheets. The next step, I asked some questions and seeked for some suggestions from my mentor. With a mentor, I had a clearer direction of my career plan and a higher efficiency in improving the quality of my CV and soft skills. These topics are so important for students to reduce the gap between academics and industries ,and I feel that I get more prepared to step in industries now.

To sum up, I really appreciate this opportunities to help me figure out who I am, where my goal is and what I need to do. Although I haven’t had lots of opportunities to practice what I learned from this program in these six months, these knowledge are so useful and will definitely help my career in the future. In the end, I would like to extend my sincere gratitude to Amanda, Linda and Allie and whole the WeTech Team.