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UCSB Comm Alumni Virtual Career Series

We are excited to announce the UCSB Communication Alumni Council Virtual Career Series via Zoom, featuring UCSB Communication Alumni. Sessions continue the 2nd Wednesday of most months during the academic year.

We wanted to create an additional way for students to connect with alumni and learn about the many job opportunities available for comm majors. Our alumni work in a variety of industries -- from media and PR to legal, real estate, entertainment, hospitality, sports, and more. We have programmed these free Zoom sessions to be informal and interactive. The speaker will spend about 10-15 minutes sharing their career journey and discuss job opportunities in their industry. We will then open it up to a Q&A where you can ask your questions about career, networking, job opportunities, etc. Also, we welcome feedback on future sessions you'd like to see as part of this series so bring your questions and ideas to the session!

2022-2023 Virtual Career Series Presenters (and more to come!). Links to register (free) will be available several weeks before each Zoom session. Click here to download a .pdf flyer for this year's series.

Aladrian Goods: Careers in Design
Aladrian Goods is Content Design Manager at Intuit
May 10, 6:00 pm PT

Click here for free registration and Zoom link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ucsb-comm-alumni-virtual-career-series-tickets-625751277917

Aladrian will talk about her career path from UCSB to today and about the skills she learned along the way that she uses daily as a design leader.

Click on the links below to view videos of past sessions as well as topic-specific short videos. For the full UCSB Comm Alumni Council Virtual Career Series playlist on YouTube, click here.

Sessions

2020

Oct 14, 6pm PT: Careers in Media/Journalism with Justine Miller
Nov 11, 6pm PT: Careers in Law with Karen Thorland, SVP and Deputy General Counsel MPAA, & Jake Edson, Associate at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
Dec 9, 6pm PT: Careers in Marketing with Justin Hannah, Team Lead, Marketing Technology & Ad Operations

2021

Jan 13, 6pm PT: Careers in HR/Recruiting with Jamie Morgan, Head of Technical Recruiting, Cruise
Feb 10, 6pm PT: Careers in Tech with John Bollen, Chief Information Officer, The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, and Alex Platt, Business Relationship Manager, Procore Technologies
Mar 10, 6pm PT: Careers in Advertising, Digital Marketing, and Product with Alexei Pizarev, Director of Operations and Product Strategy, Publicis Media
Apr 14, 6pm PT: Careers in Event Management with Cynthia Tucker, Assistant Director, Trojan Event Services, University of Southern California
May 26, 6pm PT: Careers in PR with Debbie Fitzgerald, Co-owner/Principal, Fitzgerald Petersen Communications
June 23, 6pm PT: How to Build a Brand with Noelle White, Senior Brand Manager, Heyday
Oct 13, 6pm PT: Careers in Deception Detection (Research & Financial) with Norah Dunbar, Professor, Dept of Communication, and Chuck Taylor, Executive VP, Head of Financial Crimes Advisory (FCA) at AML RightSource
Nov 10 6pm PT: Careers in Marketing & Tech with Claire Knowles, Marketing Communications Manager, Infineon Technologies

2022

Jan 12 6pm PT: Corporate Communications with Erin Bergamo-Tacy, Chief Communications Officer for Blend Labs
Feb 9 6 pm PT: From Communication to Consulting - My Unexpected Career Journey with Matt Schermerhorn, Professional Services Consultant
Mar 9 6pm PT: People + Culture Careers: HR, DEI, Learning, Coaching, and Beyond with Nick Duggan
Apr 13 6 pm PT: Careers in the Videogame Industry with Cody Corona
May 11 6 pm PT: Careers in Media and Marketing with Tom Bracken
Oct 12 6 pm PT: Advertising, Journalism & Career Searching with Kyle Garcia
Nov 9 6 pm PT: Finance and Sales with Jonathan Gruber
Dec 12 6 pm PT: Careers in Branding with Shamara Charney

2023

Jan 18 6 pm PT: Careers in Event Marketing with Allison Citelli
Feb 8 6 pm PT: Building a Career in Corporate Communication with Jennifer Leavitt Cruz
Mar 8 6 pm PT: Careers in Philanthropy & Entertainment with Desiree Flores
Apr 12 6 pm PT: Careers in Marketing & Product Management with Dylan Casey
May 10 6 pm PT: Careers in Design with Aladrian Goods

Topics: These videos gather related topics from the full-length videos in the UCSB Comm Alumni Council Virtual Career Series. Thanks to Amber Li, Alumni Council Intern, for editing these from the full videos!