Category: The Career Channel

New Ventures from UCSB Students

After eight months of activities and curriculum the UCSB New Venture Competition culminated with six teams presenting a pitch and a question-and-answer session for a panel of expert judges and an enthusiastic audience of peers, faculty and mentors.

The finalist teams, pared down from an initial pool of 32, represented diverse technologies and industries. The top six teams were: MoreSolar, utilizing wind power as a novel method for cleaning solar panels to increase efficiency; Adomi, addressing California’s housing shortage with a scalable solution that is also profitable to homeowners; Okra Systems, software for engineers that streamlines the process of selecting and qualifying microcontrollers; Snip, a social media platform for podcast lovers that allows users to curate and share podcasts; Soilight utilizing the microbes in soil to provide energy for low-powered applications; and Veneta, a web- and mobile-based software service that streamlines inventory management research labs.

Meet these young tech entrepreneurs and see who landed in the top spot.

Watch 2018 New Venture Competition Finals

Landing a Job in Engineering

Getting hired is hard. From finding the right position, to getting a call back, to acing the interview – each step presents its own challenge. There is so much advice out there, but who better to listen to than two senior level managers at San Diego companies?

Silvia De Dea from ASML and Janet Koenig from Cubic Transportation Systems sat down with Startup San Diego’s Neal Bloom to share their insights into getting hired, and growing your career. In addition to great technical skills, both agree communication is more important now than ever before. Koenig and De Dea go into detail about how you can show off your communication skills, even if you’re an introvert, by properly preparing for your interview. In this enlightening conversation, the pair also discusses how to advance your career, while staying open to new opportunities.

Watch Getting Hired: A Manager’s Perspective – Career Transitions in Engineering: Insights from the Field

Entrepreneur Insights

8232What do you get when you pair a street-smart start-up expert and UCSB Professor of Practice with industry leaders who have distinguished themselves in their fields? You get a front row seat to fascinating, and sometimes surprising, candid conversations. The newest programs in this long-running series from the Technology Management Program at UC Santa Barbara finds John Greathouse in conversation with some intriguing people. Check out these new interviews:

  • Mark Sylvester, a cook who became the father of CGI and won an Oscar for scientific and technical achievement
  • Stacy Peralta, a skateboarding legend and the accidental inventor of the action sports video
  • Robbie Bach, the creator of the xBox, redefining the gaming industry
  • Mike Falzone, a YouTube star who leveraged his passions into a career
  • Cheryl Conner, who turned her love for writing into a PR firm.

    • For more from the series go to ucsd.tv/tmp

    Turbo Charge Your Job Hunt

    28254Because he loves his job as an employment industry expert, few people think more about work than Phil Blair.

    Beginning in 1977, he has built Manpower San Diego into the largest Manpower franchise in the U.S. It is San Diego’s fourth largest for-profit employer providing approximately 2,500 jobs daily.

    Watch Job Won and learn strategies and techniques to leverage your education and experience into a career you’re passionate about.

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    The Career Channel Introduces Two New Career Development Shows

    Whether you’d prefer to work in a lab or outside of one, the Career Channel has you covered. Watch these new programs which explore two very different careers in science.

    Careers in Biotech Patent Law

    25967Intellectual property (IP) rights are essential to the survival of life science companies. Careers in Biotech Patent Law features three industry experts discussing current issues facing IP professionals in the life science industry and explores career opportunities for scientists seeking to remain close to cutting edge discovery without being in the lab.

    Careers in Bioinformatics and Precision Medicine

    26010Bioinformatics integrates molecular and clinical research with patient data and outcomes, aiming to place the patient at the center of all elements. Watch Careers in Bioinformatics and Precision Medicine with Semyon Kruglyak, of Illumina, Inc. to learn how bioinformatics has evolved to deal with Next Gen Sequencing data and discover emerging opportunities for biomedical and clinical researchers.

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