Career Events
Your career path is long. Take the time to explore. Attending talks and workshops is a great way to think about your path: how to find and navigate it, and how to thrive on it.
All events are open to the entire Stanford community - students, alumni, staff, and faculty unless otherwise stated.
Senior Project Revisited
Current seniors will hear Ashley Jepson talk about her award-winning 2023 Senior Project experience, how her project sponsor contacted her later to ask if she'd be interested in a job on her new team, and how she is using the lessons she learned during her senior project in her day-to-day work.
This talk will be given during the first senior project class and is available only to MS&E students enrolled in that class.
Financial and Consulting Career Applications: Forecasting Success
Join Viroopa Volla, David Madej, and Ava Motroni from the Alvarez & Marsal Restructuring and Turnaround team (they’re hiring!). They’ll be discussing the common communication gaps that they see in applications and applicants and sharing the language and storytelling secrets to effectively translate your class project and internship experiences into what employers want – and need - to read on resumes and hear in interviews.
This session is open to all, and will feature a sign-up form for the invitation-only fireside chat to be held at 3:30pm for networking and possible referral.
Proving You’re the Perfect Match For, and In, a Product Management Position
Getting your start in PM is notoriously difficult: it’s often a vicious cycle of no job = no experience = no job. Join Ruoxing Liu (MS ’13) for a session full of practical tips on how to frame the experience that you *do* have in a way that will attract the right attention, and how to build the relationships you’ll need to succeed once you’re in.
Relationship Capital as a Strategic Asset
We often hear that “networking matters,” but rarely is it explained how relationships actually influence career choices, decision-making, and access to opportunity.
In this session, MS&E alumna Shreya Mantha reframes networking as the intentional building of relationship capital - a strategic asset that compounds over time. Drawing from her experiences across startups, investing, and operating roles, she shares practical frameworks for sparking conversations, building trust, and maintaining relationships in a way that is authentic, non-transactional, and built for the long term. The session also explores how strong networks support better career decisions, surface opportunities before they’re public, and enable clearer diligence around roles, teams, and risk - particularly in fast-moving or ambiguous environments.
Zoom link will be emailed to the msande-jobs list. If you are not on that list and would like to attend the event, please email Lindsey Akin for the link details.
Thinking Beyond Resumes: How Hiring Managers Evaluate Early-Career Candidates
Curious how the hiring managers are really assessing you beyond your resume and GPA? Come hear from Maria Clark, Sullivan Whitely and Jessica Kim from Surge (note: they’re hiring) to discover the difference between weak and strong signals in interviews and project work, and take away actionable tips for effective and efficient communications throughout the hiring process. The advice given will be relevant across all industries, and particularly applicable for those interested in operations, engineering adjacent, and early-career roles in fast growing AI companies.
Meeting Your FutureSelf
Connecting with those in roles you’d like to explore – aka Meeting Your FutureSelf - is one of the best things you can do for your short, medium and long term career success. Having the confidence and know-how to do it well can make all the difference. Log in to learn the whys, when’s and how’s in this practical and always highly reviewed session with alum David Telleen Lawton.
Zoom link will be emailed to the msande-jobs list. If you are not on that list and would like to attend the event, please email Lindsey Akin for the link details.
Serving on a Board: A Path to Purpose, Growth and Experience.
Curious about the roles, responsibilities and rewards of board membership, and how it can dramatically impact your career trajectory and satisfaction? Join Gigi Griffin and Ron Stubblefield to learn everything you need to consider and know, from choosing which board, to the actual work, to the surprising rewards.