Meet our Employer Partners this Quarter

Diamond Partner

College Works

Find and Secure an Internship Workshop: January 21^st from 2-3pm @ Career Services, Room 1109

Resume+: January 22^nd from 2-4pm @ Career Services courtyard

Winter Career Fair: January 30^th from 1-4pm @ Corwin Pavilion

Management & Leadership Internship Panel: February 25^th from 3:30-4:30 @ Career Services, Room 1109

Platinum Partners

Citrix Systems, Inc.

Information Session: January 29^th from 11:30 – 1:30 pm @ Santa Barbara Mission, UCEN

Winter Career Fair: January 30^th from 1-4pm @ Corwin Pavilion

City Year

Resume+: January 22^nd from 2-4pm @ Career Services courtyard

Winter Career Fair: January 30^th from 1-4pm @ Corwin Pavilion

Information Session: February 5^th from 5 – 6pm @ Career Services, Room 1109

Experiences in Teaching Panel: February 27^th from 4-5pm @ Career Services, Room 1109

Enterprise

Resume+: January 22^nd from 2-4pm @ Career Services courtyard

How to Work a Career Fair: January 22^nd from 4-5pm @ Career Services, Room 1109

Winter Career Fair: January 30^th from 1-4pm @ Corwin Pavilion

Management & Leadership Internship Panel: February 25^th from 3:30-4:30 @ Career Services, Room 1109

Pay Junction

Winter Career Fair: January 30^th from 1-4pm @ Corwin Pavilion

U.S. Marine Corps

Visibility Table: January 27^th from 10am-3pm @ Career Services

Visibility Table: January 28^th from 10am-3pm @ Career Services

Information Session: January 29^th from 5 – 6:15 pm @ Career Services, Room 1109

Winter Career Fair: January 30^th from 1-4pm @ Corwin Pavilion

Yardi

Resume+: January 22^nd from 2-4pm @ Career Services courtyard

Winter Career Fair: January 30^th from 1-4pm @ Corwin Pavilion

Gold Partners

AppFolio

Information Session: January 16^th from 5:30 – 6:30 pm @ Harold Frank Hall – Room 1132

Resume+: January 22^nd from 2-4pm @ Career Services courtyard

Winter Career Fair: January 30^th from 1-4pm @ Corwin Pavilion

UCSB Teacher Education Program (TEP)

Information Sessions

Jan 9^th from 11am-12pm @ ED 1205

Jan 13^th from 5:30-6:30pm @ online webinar (email maritza@education.ucsb.edu to register)

Jan 21^st from 5:30-6:30pm @ ED 1215

Experiences in Teaching Panel: February 27^th from 4-5pm @ Career Services, Room 1109

Teach for America

 Information Sessions: January 22^nd and 23^rd from 5-7pm. Contact Andres.Perez@teachforamerica.org for more information

Resume+: January 22^nd from 2-4pm @ Career Services courtyard

Winter Career Fair: January 30^th from 1-4pm @ Corwin Pavilion

Target

Resume+: January 22^nd from 2-4pm @ Career Services courtyard

Winter Career Fair: January 30^th from 1-4pm @ Corwin Pavilion

Management & Leadership Internship Panel: February 25^th from 3:30-4:30 @ Career Services, Room 1109

Peace Corps

Visibility Table: January 28^th from 10am-3pm @ Career Services

Winter Career Fair: January 30^th from 1-4pm @ Corwin Pavilion

Visibility Table: February 11^th from 10am-3pm @ Career Services

Information Session: February 11^th from 4 – 5:30 pm @ Career Services, Room 1109

Visibility Table: February 26^th from 10am-3pm @ Career Services

Intel

Winter Career Fair: January 30^th from 1-4pm @ Corwin Pavilion

Tech Talk: January 31^st from 1-2pm @ ESB 2003

Meet College Works

College Works Painting program gives students an opportunity to build a competitive resume and gain marketable leadership skills through learning how to operate a small painting business.

CWP helps university students develop, implement, and illustrate a strong work ethic, strong communication skills, effective organizational management skills, powerful sales skills, and an overall understanding of the mechanics of leadership that can be applied to any profession. The challenging job market has made it essential for college students to gain real world experience prior to graduation. CWP provides a universally useful answer to this need.

They are looking for extremely competitive and motivated students who want a challenge this summer unlike a typical summer job. The College Works internship is a paid internship. Last year's College Works interns at UCSB earned profits averaging $5,000 and as high as $20,000 their first year while gaining business experience and business contacts. College Works interns design and implement a marketing program, conduct sales, estimate projects, work with customers, and recruit, hire, and train their own employees. Essentially, they learn all aspects of running a small business.

College Works Alumni are an extremely successful group of individuals and many own or run large companies or have gone on to work for companies such as Google, Accenture, 3E, PWC, and Morgan Stanley. As an intern you will have an opportunity to meet and learn from many of these alumni. Also, successful completion of the program places you into a select referral program to help you with your job search after graduation.

CWP is in the final run of their recruiting for the 2014 summer. They will be on campus for these upcoming events:
--resume+ Jan 22nd, 2pm -4pm, Career Services Courtyard
--Find and Secure an Internship Workshop on Jan 21st, 2pm-3pm, Career Services Rm. 1109
--Winter Career Fair Jan 30th, 1pm-4pm, Corwin Pavilion
--Management & Leadership Internship Panel Feb 25th, 3:30pm-4:30pm, Career Services Rm. 1109 

Goleta Entrepreneurial Magnet (GEM): Local tech start-ups, listen up!

On October 16, local business leaders, community members, and city government representatives gathered in Old Town Goleta for an open house hosted by the Goleta Valley Chamber of Commerce. The purpose of the gathering was an attempt to raise funds and awareness for the Goleta Entrepreneurial Magnet (GEM), its partnership with the City of Goleta and UC Santa Barbara to attract and nurture local tech start-up businesses. Those that are still wondering what GEM does were given a glimpse of a physical space the small-business incubator could soon call home.

GEM is a collaboration of business, government and education to strengthen the local economy by supporting new and growing entrepreneurs. The Goleta Entrepreneurial Magnet provides resources and support to science and technology businesses, whether they focus on bio-medical, software, infrared, semiconductor or other markets.

GEM’s lone employee, executive director Doug Lynch, welcomed supporters into a 2,000 square foot space that could become a conference room if enough donations could be gathered to lease the building. Lynch also said the Goleta Chamber and UCSB would match any funds supporters could provide.

UCSB Executive Vice Chancellor Gene Lucas and Goleta Mayor Roger Aceves offered words of encouragement, referring to a physical GEM space as a major milestone. Startups, many of which would come out of UCSB, could ideally use the incubator space for one to two years before growing out into the Goleta community.

For more information on the Goleta Entrepreneurial Magnet, please visit: http://goletaentrepreneurs.com/

Guest blog contributor: Ignacio Gallardo, Director of Career Services

LinkedIn NYC

On a short vacation to NYC last Spring I had a chance encounter with Raouf Tarazi, recent UCSB alum (Econ major/TMP) and employee of LinkedIn. You see Raouf is a friend of a friend who we met for lunch one day and I noticed he was wearing a LinkedIn t-shirt. After chatting for quite some time about his job, he offered to give me a tour on LinkedIn in New York City. Little did I know that we were headed to one of the tallest buildings in the U.S, the Empire State Building!

LinkedIn has a location in NYC on the 25th floor of the Empire State Building. It is strictly sales and marketing there and Raouf at that time was a Sales Development Specialist, he has since been promoted to Solutions Consultant. Basically this means that he would reach out to companies, owners, managers, and staffing agencies to sell LinkedIn products and to promote their services. But what’s even more interesting is how Raouf landed his job at LinkedIn. Immediately after graduate Raouf found himself in Inside Sales for a solar company. After doing well at this company, he was ready for a change of scenery and decided to connect with a few classmates who worked at LinkedIn. Through the power of networking, he was able to get his resume into the hands of the hiring manager, and the rest is history! A few words of advice from Raouf for any of you interested in LinkedIn: 1. Cultural fit is one of the most important aspects for the sales and marketing team. You must mesh well with the group. 2. To ensure cultural fit, the hiring manager has potential employees interview with members from the sales team.

Unfortunately, I wasn’t allowed to take pictures inside LinkedIn but I did take notes for all of you Gauchos! When first walking into the office on the 25th floor, you pass a huge video conferencing room that they use to talk to locations in 26 different countries! The office itself is set up in typical format (desks, cubicles, some personal offices, etc.) but in between sections they have fully functional and fully stocked kitchens, every type of drink you can imagine, espresso machines, and ping pong tables. They even have an outdoor deck with amazing views that overlook the city. At the end of our tour of LinkedIn, Raouf took all of us to the top of the Empire State Building. LinkedIn employees get a free pass and can bring five guests to the top an anytime! All in all it was an amazing vacation for me and I am so glad I got to bring something back for the students at UCSB!