We are excited to offer TACT for the second time due to tremendous positive feedback! UCLA Anderson students and alumni are targeting tech companies and start-ups at the highest rate in the school’s history. Furthermore, most industries—entertainment, finance, healthcare, and education—and companies are now tech-driven, have e-commerce strategies, and are going through digital transformation. If you are targeting these high growth companies and want to stand apart from the hundreds of applicants, then TACT is the career group for you. TACT--brought to you by the UCLA Anderson’s Office of Alumni Relations--is unlike any other alumni MBA career coaching program.
Content
This 6-session virtual program is highly interactive; it will help you successfully navigate your current career crossroad as well as provide you with the tools for all of your future job searches. After completing this program, you will have:
- Designed your resume for the job you want—not the jobs you’ve had
- Optimized your LinkedIn profile and mastered all the latest search techniques
- Discovered resources to upskill and expand your job search
- Learned how to set yourself apart during both the application and interview processes
- Created an action plan and roadmap to guide your career development
- Networked with other UCLA Anderson alums and connected on a deeper level
Review the syllabus for a breakdown of each session.
Dates: Thursdays. January 9, 16, 23, 30 and February 6, 13, 2020
Time: Two options: 12-1:30 pm or 4-5:30pm PST
Cost: $275
Format
This program will be led by Emily Taylor ‘08, the former UCLA Anderson Director of MBA Career Education and founder of NextStep Careers. Each of the six weekly sessions will be delivered via the Zoom video conference platform, accessible from your computer, your smartphone, or by dialing a toll-free voice number.
- Sessions run 75 - 90 minutes
- Targeted feedback provided during the weekly interactive exercise
- Videos before sessions covering lectures, so sessions are focused on personalized feedback
- Curated pre- and post-session action items to maximize effectiveness
- Examples of best practices and templates so you’re not reinventing the wheel
- Opportunity to sign-up for discounted 30-minute 1-on-1 sessions to target weekly topics
The TACT group will consist of no less than 10 and not more than 15 participants. Director of Alumni Career Services David Cooley will join the sessions when available.
Facilitator: Emily Taylor ‘08, Founder of NextStep Careers
After graduating from UCLA Anderson with a focus in entrepreneurship, Emily joined an edtech startup as a product manager, enabling the company to scale while also improve product quality. She was promoted to Vice President of Talent, overseeing recruiting, human resources, training & development, internal communications, and corporate culture.
Emily was then asked to return to UCLA Anderson to lead career education. She is extremely proud that the career center became the highest rated of the top 20 business schools. The career management course she developed and taught was the first mover in hybrid learning among MBA programs. Furthermore, students appreciated the infusion of relevancy and edutainment, and consequently, the course received top ratings. In addition, Emily founded the UCLA Anderson Startup ACT group, which quickly became one of the most enrolled career teams. It provided valuable coaching and accountability, plus in roads into Silicon Beach, Silicon Valley and Silicon Alley.
In 2018, Emily launched NextStep Careers to give job seekers the personalized career coaching and MBA/EMBA admissions consulting that they need to succeed in today's competitive job market. NextStep Careers works with clients in 30 cities around the globe and provides programming for top universities, foundations and corporations. In addition to running TACT, she has facilitated sold-out Anderson alumni resume workshops. Learn more here: nextstepcareer.org
Emily was awarded a BA and Masters from Stanford University and an MBA from UCLA Anderson. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband Matt, also an Anderson alum, and their two future Bruins.
FAQs
What is the cost?
The total for the 6-week program is $275.
How much time will I need to spend on the pre- and post-session action items?
All of the action items are extremely relevant to your job search. There’s no busy work. Budget at 1 hour for the action items and at least another hour for networking outreach and informationals.
What if I miss a session?
Each session will be recorded, and these recordings will be available to registered participants for the duration of the Program. If you miss a session, you will have access to the recording. Note that the recordings will be deleted from the server 30 days after the conclusion of the Program.
Who can sign-up?
Registration in the Tech Alumni Career Teams (TACT) teams is available solely and exclusively for alumni of the MBA, MFE, MSBA and PhD programs at UCLA Anderson. Attendees will be verified as degreed alumni after registering and those ineligible will have their registrations cancelled and refunded.
