Core Career Workshops are recommended for all EWMBA students – whether you are an Explorer, Advancer, Pivoter, or Entrepreneur, you will find these workshops helpful in achieving your career goals. (Scroll down to see Elective Career Workshops by EWMBA archetype – Explorer, Advancer, Pivoter, Entrepreneur.)
| EWMBA WE Launch | This interactive session provides you with an opportunity to get to know some of your new classmates and share your career possibilities with each other. You’ll also learn how to tap into your Haas network and get a glimpse of how to engage with the resources CMG has to offer on your path to becoming a Berkeley Leader. |
| EWMBA Launch Your Career Strategy | Learn how to partner with CMG and navigate digital resources, including the CMG Resources Website, Slack channels, and the CMG BEARS platform. |
| Resume | This interactive workshop will walk you through how a recruiter or hiring manager might evaluate a resume, and highlight how you can alter your resume to help them help you. We’lll look at resumes together and evaluate them through this process to help you understand how to stack the odds in your favor. Just to be clear, there is no magic bullet. |
| Building a Great LinkedIn Profile | Transform your profile from a static resume into a powerful networking tool. In this workshop, you will:
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| Your Intro Story for Career Conversations | Identify elements that make a great introduction that helps others engage you in a conversation. This is useful for networking events such as conferences, company events, and mixers. |
| Creating Engaging Behavioral Stories | Take a step-by-step approach to convert your memorable experiences into an engaging story to share in behavioral interviews. Along the way, you learn what elements make a story engaging and what elements provide structure. You will walk away with one complete story! |
| Your Story: Tell Me About Yourself | Learn the important elements to include in your TMAY, have opportunities to practice, get feedback and refine, and work on your non-verbal delivery fundamentals. |
Tailored to Your Journey: Elective Career Workshops
Ready to dive deeper into your specific path? While Core Workshops build your foundational toolkit, our Elective Career Workshops are specialized sessions curated directly for your distinct career archetype—whether you are an Explorer, Advancer, Pivoter, or Entrepreneur. Choose the workshops aligned with your primary archetype to gain targeted strategies, frameworks, and actionable skills designed specifically for your goals.
Elective Career Workshops for Explorers
| Ikigai (2 parts) | Uncover what motivates you, what you excel at, and how to align your career with your values |
| To Intern or Not to Intern panel | Panel discussion featuring EWMBA students who made the choice to do a summer internship. Students share what they did to clarify their career goals, their decision-making process around whether to do a summer internship, and steps they took that led to success in the recruitment process. |
| EWMBA Explorers Panel (part of the new Archetype Panel series) | Panels of EWMBA Alumni geared towards specific archetypes (Explorers panel) – targeted for the Fall semester of the first year. |
| EW Career Days (Consulting, Finance, Tech) | These events are specifically designed for all incoming and current EWMBA students interested in learning more about the various career paths in Consulting, Finance, and Tech. Takeaways:
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Additional Resources for Explorers
| MBA Student Clubs (Professional Clubs) | Explore all of the student clubs and organizations that are available at Haas. |
| Centers & Institutes | Haas is conducting cutting-edge research through research institutes and centers. The centers and institutes, run by faculty, serve as intellectual hubs for faculty, students, and members of the business community. |
| CMG resources website: Industries & Functions section | Designed to help you learn about different industries and functions and to help you to get you started in your exploration process. |
Elective Career Workshops for Pivoters
| Ikigai (2 parts) | Uncover what motivates you, what you excel at, and how to align your career with your values |
| How to Pivot | Learn about the five fundamental questions that will go through a hiring manager’s head when considering a “Pivoter”. Answering these questions will go a long way towards making your candidacy more appealing. This can inform your strategy in pursuing a pivot as well as your research agenda. |
| EW Career Days (Consulting, Finance, Tech) | These events are specifically designed for all incoming and current EWMBA students interested in learning more about the various career paths in Consulting, Finance, and Tech. Takeaways:
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| To Intern or Not to Intern Panel | Panel discussion featuring EWMBA students who made the choice to do a summer internship. Students share what they did to clarify their career goals, their decision-making process around whether to do a summer internship, and steps they took that led to success in the recruitment process. |
| Your Specific Value Proposition | This multi-part series will help you develop a specific value proposition that is used for:
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| Transferable Skills | This workshop, which is especially relevant for pivoters, will help you describe your accomplishments in a way that your new audience can easily understand. Reframe your experience so that people in different industries/roles/organizations understand its value and how it connects to a potential new role. You’ll learn:
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Additional Resources for Pivoters
| Industry Primers | Learn about industries and the internship search journey: roles employers typically hire for, skills needed to be successful on the job, and the timelines and resources for recruiting.
A panel of graduating students will talk about their recent experiences. They’ll share their lessons learned about the recruiting process, what they actually did day-to-day during their internships, and will answer your specific questions. (These are available to you beginning in your second year of the EWMBA program.) |
| Industry Mixers | This is a great chance to connect in person with alumni working across different industries, hear about their career paths, and learn what skills matter most as you explore roles and job search. It’s not a recruiting event, but a valuable opportunity to build your network, ask questions, and practice sharing your story and interests with industry professionals.
(These are available to you beginning in your second year of the EWMBA program.) |
| Alumni AMAs | Join Haas alumni for casual chats and an opportunity to learn about their career experience and gain networking connections.
(These are available to you beginning in your second year of the EWMBA program.) |
| Faculty Career Chats | Join faculty members for small group career chats where they provide guidance and suggestions in their sectors and offer networking connections.
(These are available to you beginning in your second year of the EWMBA program.) |
| Industry Slack Channels | (These are available to you beginning in your second year of the EWMBA program.) |
| EWMBA Pivoters Panel (part of the new Archetype Panel series) | Panels of EWMBA Alumni geared towards specific archetypes (Pivoters panel) – targeted for the Fall semester of the first year. |
Elective Career Workshops for Advancers
| Ikigai (2 parts) | Uncover what motivates you, what you excel at, and how to align your career with your values |
| Building Trust Based Relationships | Learn how to build or enhance workplace relationships with colleagues across teams and departments in this highly interactive workshop. You can expect to:
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| Coaching Skills for the Workplace (for Managers and ICs) – 2 parts | We hear the word “coaching” a lot these days, but many people don’t have a clear understanding of exactly what it is or how to do it well. Coaching skills can help you build better relationships, motivate others and bring out the best in them, and can result in better solutions and outcomes. This is an interactive two-part workshop designed to help you learn fundamental coaching skills that you can use at work, whether you are a manager or individual contributor. |
| Getting the Feedback You Need to Advance Your Career | Getting feedback can be difficult or stressful to receive, and many times the feedback we get is not useful. This workshop focuses on how to get the kind of feedback you need to thrive in your role and advance in your career. What you’ll learn:
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| The Art of Giving Feedback – Even If You Are In an IC Role | Giving feedback in a skillful way to your colleagues (or even to people in your personal life), is an art. Do you sometimes avoid giving feedback for fear it will backfire? Do you wish you could give feedback to your colleagues in a way that preserves or even strengthens the relationship? This interactive workshop will give you a chance to practice giving feedback in a safe group learning environment. What you’ll learn:
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| Your Specific Value Proposition | This multi-part series will help you develop a specific value proposition that is used for:
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Additional Resources for Advancers
| Industry Mixers | This is a great chance to connect in person with alumni working across different industries, hear about their career paths, and learn what skills matter most as you explore roles and job search. It’s not a recruiting event, but a valuable opportunity to build your network, ask questions, and practice sharing your story and interests with industry professionals.
(These are available to you beginning in your second year of the EWMBA program.) |
| EW Mini Panels for Advancers | Panels of EWMBA Alumni geared towards specific archetypes (Advancers panel) – targeted for the Fall semester of first year. |
Elective Career Workshops for Entrepreneurs (starting your own company, joining a startup, or pursuing Venture Capital)
| Negotiating with a Startup | In this negotiation workshop, you’ll walk away armed with best practices and specific how-tos so you can feel confident and prepared ahead of your next negotiation with startups. |
| Pitching a Project to a Startup | If you’re looking for opportunities within the startup space, this workshop is for you. We will walk you through how to develop a point of view on the startup’s business or project and pitch your contribution to the company. Learn how to do your homework and pitch the project you want! |
| Finding and Networking with Startups | This workshop will provide tips and practical tools on finding and networking with startups, joining a startup, finding players of interest in the industry, and how to network with industry disruptors. |
Additional Resources for Entrepreneurs (for starting your own company or pursuing Venture Capital)
| eHub | The eHub’s mission is to make entrepreneurship easier and more accessible. As the gateway to the Berkeley innovation ecosystem, it offers resource navigation services, entrepreneurship practice opportunities, and a space to build community with students from all disciplines and levels. |
| Berkeley Haas Entrepreneurship Program | The Berkeley Haas Entrepreneurship Program integrates entrepreneurial thinking into the Haas student experience. It assists Haas and UC Berkeley students in launching new ventures. |
| Berkeley StEP Program | The Berkeley StEP Program is a 10 week startup incubator program that connects UC Berkeley community members with complementary skills and helps bring their ideas into the world. |
| Industry Mixers | This is a great chance to connect in person with alumni working across different industries, hear about their career paths, and learn what skills matter most as you explore roles and job search. It’s not a recruiting event, but a valuable opportunity to build your network, ask questions, and practice sharing your story and interests with industry professionals.
(These are available to you beginning in your second year of the EWMBA program.) |
| Startup/Entrepreneurship section of CMG Resources site | Review Startup and Entrepreneurship resources on our CMG Resources site. |
| Venture Capital section of CMG Resources site | Review Venture Capital resources on our CMG Resources site. |