The Clean Capital Conference has been moved to January 30th. We will be sponsoring attendance for a few students who have a real, demonstrated interested in this space. If you would like to attend, please send an email to me, Ian, with:
I will respond once I have received those expressions of interest.
Regarding presentation coaching and feedback, we have arranged for some support for your upcoming presentations.
1. If you have an upcoming group presentation and would like to benefit from expert feedback, we have arranged with the Canaccord Learning Commons for an opportunity to receive a consultative critique of your presentation approach, design and delivery. 40 and 60 minutes time slots are available.
2. Additionally, we are arranging to have that same person attend your in-class presentations. He will collect and provide feedback on a group by group basis.
Both the consultative-style sessions and in-class presence will be delivered/offered by Alex Monegro, Student Development Manager of the CLC. Alex is very experienced with delivering and coaching presentations for high pressure situations. He was part of the 1st place team for the National Investment Banking Conference among others, participated in the SCMP program, created presentation decks at a consulting firm, and has trained numerous case competition trainers and acted as a case competition coach for national conferences.
For the group coaching / feedback sessions, dates are available for:
If you group is interested, please select one representative from the team to email Carly with your day/time slot preferences and whether your group would like a 40 or 60 minute session. If you think you are interested, but are not certain about when you would like to do it, please email Carly to indicate your interest. This will help us gauge demand.
Hello all,
I have a two follow-ups on the ePortfolio.
If you are having difficulty, or have questions, please get in touch with myself, Rodrigo or Carly and we will be pleased to assist you.
We heard from a student that there were rumours about the team pulling internship applications and not necessarily notifying the impacted students about this. As this is important, I wanted to clarify our procedures.
When you apply several days before a deadline, the team has an opportunity to both review your application material and provide feedback, which provides you the opportunity to make the necessary edits and re-submit your application. The only situation in which we would pull an application is when:
If the above occurred, we would definitely notify you that your application was pulled. We hope this clarifies things. Please let us know if you have questions on the above.
As you have been asked to post to your ePortfolio for Global Immersion, I wanted to provide guidance on Privacy Settings.
The intent for the ePortfolio is for the work you post there to be public and therefore part of your professional identity. You can either choose to do that now, or elect for more privacy until you have had some feedback on your work. Please do the following:
It is not too late to RSVP on COOL for the MBA mixer / networking event on Thursday evening. It is a business casual event taking place at Earl’s in Yaletown – a relaxed chance to meet some MBA alumni.
If you have already registered, fantastic. Looking forward to seeing you Thursday evening.
Regarding your eportfolio, thank you for your patience as we sorted out back-end technicalities. This post provides important, updated instructions and resources in order for you to fully enable your eportfolio. Please take a few minutes to follow these steps. To begin, please navigate to http://learningcommons.sauder.ubc.ca/learn/portfolio/ . Here are the components in sequence:
Additional points:
I will be communicating more tips as well as clarifications and updates going forward. We are looking forward to seeing your portfolios develop and to the aggregator showcasing your ideas and talent.
As part of our marketing efforts, we will be sending “resume books” (PDF collections of resumes) to selected contacts and partners as part of internship development and overall employment branding for your cohort and the school. This activity helps to market you specifically as well as other students in your Track, as well as the whole cohort, and of course, the whole program.
When you registered on COOL, you agreed to have your default resume viewable by employers who have been given access to the resume database. We assume that the above, additional marketing activities are acceptable to you.
If, for privacy reasons, you do not want your resume to be included in these kinds of activities, or you would like to pair down your contact information, please contact your career manager via email by EOB Tuesday, January 29th.
For those of you who have not yet completed your resumes, please do your best to get your revisions done over the next few days. We know that you have a lot on your plates right now. However, we do not want you or your fellow classmates to miss any opportunities for marketing, including for Global Immersion. Your career managers are reaching out individually to you to expedite things.
Perfect is not important at this stage. Get your resume done and we can help you revise it if needed after Global Immersion. With the business development team, we will be sending out resumes starting next week for key partners. Thank you for your cooperation.
We hope you are enjoying a well-deserved break. There are a number of internship postings that close during the holiday and shortly after. Given the break, travel schedules, our closed office next week and the MBA Games, we wanted to highlight this fact. The deadlines and companies are:
Postings in December / January tend to be dominated by the larger corporations with formal internship processes. If these targets are of interest to you, you need to be on top of these deadlines.