The 3rd “Food & Nutrition Night” Successfully Held N
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The Department of Food and NutritionatEwha Womans University(Department Chair:Professor Jung Seung-yeon) successfully held the3rd “Food & Nutrition Night”on Thursday, December 4, at the Lee Sam-bong Hall of the Ewha Campus Complex (ECC). The event brought together current students and alumni of the department.
“Food & Nutrition Night” is the department’s flagship annual networking event, launched in 2023 with the aim of supporting diverse career exploration for food and nutrition majors and strengthening exchange between juniors and seniors. Now in its third year, the event has established itself as a meaningful platform where undergraduate students and alumni who graduated within the past five years are invited to share major-related career information and practical work experience.
This year’s event drew a total of 136 participants, including 80 undergraduate students, 50 alumni and graduate students, and 6 faculty members, making it a vibrant and well-attended gathering. The alumni in attendance were active in a wide range of fields, including marketing, clinical nutrition, product and service planning, research and development (R&D), quality control, entrepreneurship, human resource development, dietetics, academia, and sensory science. For current students, the event offered a valuable opportunity to hear firsthand about post-graduation career preparation processes and on-site professional experiences, while alumni were able to reconnect and strengthen their sense of community.
The program was conducted in two parts. In Part 1, with support from theConvergence Career Center of Ewha Womans University’s College of Emerging Industries,Moon Yoon-hee, Senior Consultant at Job Idea, participated as a guest speaker and delivered a career lecture titled“Career Design and Expansion Strategies Based on a Major in Food and Nutrition.”The lecture introduced concrete examples of how major competencies can be linked to industry settings and specific job roles, along with practical preparation strategies. It provided substantial guidance to students in reviewing their areas of interest and developing more concrete career plans.
The opening ceremony that followed featured congratulatory remarks from the student council, the Dean of the College of Emerging Industries, and the Department Chair, along with an introduction of the participating faculty members. During the first mentoring session, discussions were guided by common questions collected in advance through a survey. Conversations focused on topics of strong interest to students, including career decision-making processes, criteria for job selection, pathways to graduate school and employment, practical application of major knowledge, undergraduate life and extracurricular activities, and challenges encountered during job preparation and strategies for overcoming them. Alumni mentors shared their own career journeys and offered candid, realistic advice.
After dinner, Part 2 of the program featured small-group, job-specific table mentoring sessions. At tables organized by field—such as marketing, clinical nutrition, R&D, and quality control—students and alumni engaged in more in-depth discussions. Alumni vividly shared insights into their actual job responsibilities, required competencies, motivations for choosing their career paths, and the realistic challenges and growth they experienced after entering the workforce.
In the latter part of the event, a prize drawing and a group photo session further enlivened the atmosphere. Even after the official program concluded, many participants remained to continue networking and exchanging conversations, expressing their reluctance to part. The3rd Food & Nutrition Nightconcluded successfully as a meaningful occasion that reaffirmed connection and solidarity among members of the Department of Food and Nutrition at Ewha Womans University.