While the coaches have been busy meeting and corresponding with you individually, we wanted to provide you with some job search context for the Fall as well as information on upcoming programming to assist with your planning.

Taking Advantage of the Fall

Historically, the students who have been successful generating job outcomes early were very engaged in the fall months. As you approach the end-point of the program, you are at a point when you can now engage in real conversations about real opportunities post-December.

You should be making regular investments in activities like:

• Upgrade of your brand platform (LinkedIn profile, resume, etc.)
• Research and targeted exploration of specific companies as well as industry and contact mapping.
• Quality applications to selected job openings (both on COOL and off)
• Follow-up on pre-existing leads
• Weekly investment in working your networks (LinkedIn, other online, offline) to generate new leads, conversations and meetings

Pipeline Management: I want to remind you about the Sales Pipeline tool we provided and workshopped during internship season. Your activities map to a sales funnel and you would do well to apply a system to your efforts.

The idea is that even if you don’t land something before December, you are fully engaged, have planted seeds that might be sprouting, and can be rolling strong into January.

Time in Your Calendar > Job Search Week (Week of Oct. 20th)

In addition to the time available during your regular academic weeks, Job Search Week is in your calendar to fully invest in this process. There is no programming scheduled during job search week. The intent of this week was to provide time for you to make those investments in professional development and networking.

Meeting with your Career Manager: If you have not been able to see Mary/Rodrigo so far since your return, please work on scheduling a meeting as soon as possible to take advantage of this time (please note that they will have very limited availability during Job Search Week given that it coincides with the 1st year IPD week). We want to understand your focus, your mobility to other cities in Canada and internationally, and how we can best support you.

Meet with Ian: I can make myself available for 1-1 appointments should that be of use to you. Best use of time would be around strategy.

Mastermind Workshop: We are working on a potential, alumnus-led workshop. This would be by sign-up for those interested. We will advise, when confirmed.

International Alumni Panel: (Tuesday, Oct. 14th 6pm) This is an event for international students. A panel of MBA alumni will discuss the challenges and opportunities of full-time job search as international students. Invites have already been sent out and a group of alumni are looking forward to meeting you.

Negotiation Mania Day: This is a signature, experiential learning and networking day. Due to the scheduling conflict, we are working on finding a day. We will notify you with news.

Networking Event (Wednesday, Oct. 15th, 5:30-7:30)
We have organized a networking event for your class and the graduating part-time class. We have sent out invites to:

• Mentors from the various mentoring programs
• Internship employers
• Alumni
• Hiring executives

As of today, more than 50 external guests have responded.

This will be an opportunity to re-connect and meet new people to further your networking and job search / start-up efforts. RSVP on COOL.

Relationship Suggestion: Why don’t you reach out to your mentor(s) and to your internship supervisor and ask them if they plan on attending. This would be a nice touchpoint and reinforce your connections.
RSVP on COOL

COOL Activity: We have noticed very low activity on COOL. Please be logging in regularly to check for company info sessions, events and job postings.

Additional: If a group of you require instruction or coaching around a specific topic or the hunting process, we would be pleased to support that. Please let us know.

We look forward to supporting your success in the coming months and beyond into the New Year.

1. Go to the custom Evisors landing page.
2. Review the information on the landing page.
3. Make note of the special “email username” that you need to use to access the site. It takes the form of firstname_lastname@ftmba2015.sauder.evisors.com. In order to gain unpaid access to the webinar library, you need to use this username (substituting your own name of course).
4. Click “View Webinar Library”
5. On the home page, login using the special username (see image below).
6. Enjoy. (This resource will be available to you as an alumni as well)

We are seriously exploring a change in the timing of Trek Calgary from November to the end of August. Our initial reach out to companies indicates that the timing would work for them. We are looking at August 25-26 as our first choice. Benefits to a change include:

• Two days vs 1 day of programming
• More time for you to stay, make connections etc.
• August timing more in line with recruitment cycles of bigger companies

We have not created a schedule yet. A rough agenda would include:

• Scheduled meetings at companies
• Time for you to have your own meetings
• An alumni networking event

The way Trek Calgary works is students apply and those who are selected and participate will receive a $300 subsidy to partially off-set the cost of your trip. Trek Calgary includes MBAs, MMs and BComs.

Calgary and Edmonton are growing, vibrant markets. If Trek Calgary is of potential interest to you as described above, please send an email to Carly with a deadline of Tuesday morning, April 22 indicating that you are interested. We will do a more formal application later. For now, we want to gauge the level of interest. Thank you.

For those of you who have RSVP’d for Thursday’s Leaders Reception,

Logistics: 

• Arrive at the Rosewood Hotel Georgia between 5:00 (no earlier) and 5:20. No later.
• This is a business formal event. Professional attire including an appropriate suit and a tie for the gentlemen.
• Wear your name tags. Bring your business cards, if you have them.

What to Expect: 

• There are over 100 business people who have RSVPd, from CEOs to VP, Directors and Senior Managers. There are many Sauder alumni on the list.
• Cocktail reception & networking from 5:30 (some guests arrive earlier) -6:30
• Speeches from 6:30-7:05
• Networking from 7:05-7:30

Best Practices: 

• Guests attend this event for a variety of reasons. It is an opportunity for you to practice your networking skills, meet successful, interesting people, and perhaps expand your network.
• No one should be asking for internships. Introduce yourself. Ask about their company, or their job. Tell them about you and what you want to do. Talk about relevant current events, or industry trends. Tell them about global immersion.
• Circulate.
• If you have had a good conversation, you can ask for permission to follow-up. Use your best judgement.
• We know this is out of the comfort zone for many of you. Our team will do our best to make introductions. Dive in. Be your best professional self.

This is a showcase event for the school, for the class and for you individually. Looking forward to it!

This is a follow-up to the 12:45-1:45 class scheduled for this Thursday. This is an important session to attend as we will be answering your questions around:

• Your options and requirements for your Summer Experience
• Process, paperwork, faculty supervisors
• Data regarding compensation for internships
• Data regarding timing – when and how do things typically happen
• Best practices for securing your summer experience

And more.

We will start at 12:45 on Thursday, HA 492. See you then.

We are anxious to produce your class resume “book” and put it in the hands of our business development team. However, there are a handful of students who have not sent in/finalized their resume. As communicated, the direction and expectation is that all students are represented in the class resume book.

If you are one of the few who have not completed this important task, please do so this weekend/end of business Monday.