The Basics of Becoming a Boss
1. Swag–Dressing appropriately for interviews/presentations
2. Step–Body language
3. Sayin’s–Professional correspondence, Public speaking
4. Starts–Career Resource Center, Pre-Career Organizations
5. Soul–Balance involvement, friends, & academia

Networking & Personal Branding
Make yourself stick out by having a “30 second elevator speech” readily practiced and memorized!

1. Name–With confidence, no mumbling
2. What You Do–Major, Student Involvement Activities, Interests, Passions
3. HOOKUPS–Your market: who are you looking for, Your own network: who do you already know
4. Credibility–Past positions/achievements>>Personal stories work best!

***Fill out the volunteer form at http://www.leadershipandservice.ufl.edu/gatorplunge.php before THIS WEDNESDAY AT NOON; fill in AASU under Group Affiliation on the form. ***

The event itself is this Saturday, September 24th at 8:15 AM. We will be meeting at the Plaza of the Americas in front of Peabody Hall.
—Wear close toed shoes & bring a water bottle so we can work hard to give back to our community!
–FREE FOOD: breakfast & lunch are both provided!!

We hope you settled into UF nicely over these past two weeks! We just wanted to provide you the websites we had mentioned during our first meeting:

1. Mentee applications due September 19th– http://tiny.cc/gox4o
Become apart of the FLP fambam by getting your very own mentor!

2. AASU chair applications due September 4th — http://tinyurl.com/3b4sdvp
Start of freshman year strong by seeking a position in the Asian American Asian Union!

3. We’ll be hosting our Joint Potluck/Gatornight Extravaganza with CASA on September 16th. Look out for a FB event page or ufflp.com for the updated details on this event! ***If you haven’t done so, add “Flp At Uf” as a friend on Facebook so you can get timely updates! (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001697856106)

As always, we’re here to make your freshman year the best experience so feel free to shoot us an email about Gator Nation, AASU, etc. We are more than willing to help you out!

Registration is at 1:00
Kickoff is at 2:00
Awards are at 3:00

Expect free food from:

- Gator Dominos
- The Gelato Company
- Planet Smoothie
- Moe’s
- The Flying Biscuit
- and more….

Join FLP’s March for Babies group as we participate in a great cause!
Here’s the link to register with “FLiP Love”
http://www.marchforbabies.org/s_team_page.asp?seid=1490692

Please invite and ask as many people you possibly can to participate in March for Babies. There will be hundreds of people and it will be an exciting and fun time

Moving onto our upcoming activities, FLP is having our FOURTH General Meeting TOMORROW at 6:30 pm at LIT 0125! Note the room change. We are NOT at CSE anymore. Earlier this week, us FLP directors have been spamming you with e-mail about this upcoming meeting. At this meeting we will be discussing and splitting into committees. It’s finally the time to get some hands on experience that will help you guys in the future with leadership positions in AASU’s suborgs or other organizations here at UF!

Here’s a brief description of our committees:

• Community Service-In charge of finding community service projects
• Fundraising-In charge of planning events to fund-raise for charity
• Social-In charge of planning upcoming socials such as Thanksgiving Potluck
• Historian-In charge of documenting FLP events through scrapbooking and taking pictures
• Public Relations-In charge of promoting FLP events through Facebook, website, etc.
• AASU Outreach-In charge of keeping FLP members updated on upcoming AASU events
• M&M Relations -In charge of finding M&M bonding events or activities

So APPLY APPLY APPLY NOW!
https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&pli=1&formkey=dEhZT2p5ZTlndl9xTER6cG9fRXVDVVE6MQ#gid=0

And we’ll see you guys tomorrow

For those who have signed up, It’s Here!!

First Retreat

At Graham Gallery

Saturday October 2nd, 10am-4:30pm

$3 for Lunch

Wear Comfortable Shoes

See you there!