Xoogler School Fall 2020 Recap
We just wrapped the eight week Xoogler School Gap Year Program that helped over 60 undergraduate and graduate students grow their professional skills and networks through the Xoogler community. I shared a summary that wrapped up the eights weeks and gave insights on how we decided to launch this program
First, thank you to our incredible volunteer team that dedicated countless weeks to planning and operating the Xoogler School. We could not have done it without you Jen Low, Julia Levy, and Arsh Buch!
Second, thank you to the 80+ Xooglers and friends of Xooglers that spoke with, mentored, and guided Xoogler School students. Listed below is each speaker with the links to their Xoogler School lessons recorded on Youtube as well as the many mentors that joined our mentoring sessions.
Week One — Week of September 14
- Planning your career journey: Landing your first job and beyond — Amit Singh
- Navigating Early Career Decisions — Joshua Mindel
- Designing Your Work Life — Mohammed Abdoolcarim
- My Career in Product and Using Tech to Fight Climate Change — Michael Leggett
- What to Expect from an Entry Level Sales Job — Tony Pribyl
- Developing Your Elevator Pitch in the Zoom Era — Brandon Middleton
- How to explore different career roles at a large company — Jimena Zubiria
- Standing Out to Tech Recruiters — Stefanie Fackrell
Week Two — Week of September 21
- Finance and Tech Industry Overview — Aashna Gupta
- What to know before getting into Marketing and Advertising — Vinicius Mauro
- LinkedIn Workshop — Irina Skripnik and Chloe Rowshani
- Career Options from Joining a Startup After College — Mary Minno
- What to expect from an entry-level finance job — Ben Heben
- Pursuing a Career in HR — The many roles for different skillsets — Jamie Wittman
- Real Estate + Sales & Working Internationally — Alex Storey
- Setting Career Goals and Staying on Target — Alan Stein
- What to expect from your first software engineering job — Tara Basu Trivedi
- Creating and Nurturing Professional Relationships — Mel Sezto
Week Three — Week of September 28
- Pursuing a business development career — Jenny Wong
- The APM Role at Google and How to Position Yourself for it — Matt Susskind
- How to pursue a career in product — John Zazenski
- How to get into Venture Capital from a Liberal Arts Major — Danielle Dudum
- Pursuing a career in analytics and business intelligence — Saumitra Sharm
- Breaking into the Marketing Industry — Yen Leong
Week Five — Week of October 12
- Intro to OKRs — Paul Huynh
- Balancing Work/Life — Mikiko Ujihara
- All About Interviewing — Ashley Malone
- Interviewing Strategies — Irina Skripnik
- Careers in Privacy, Security, Trust & Safety — Herb David
- Indeed Workshop — Erika Buenrostro, Karina De Villa, Tommy Dinh, Salih Mutlu
Week Six — Week of October 19
- How to build mentor relationships — Rachel Cai
- Navigating Your Tech Career — William Bailey III
- Y Combinator — Kat Manalac
Week Seven — Week of October 26
- Flatiron School and Facebook — Lisa Jiang
- Interviewing at Adobe, Google and Startups — Ankit Jain
- Being a student VC — Parthi Loganathan
- Bilingualism Three Ways & a Non-Traditional Career — Mike Omoto
- Experience in Hardware and Product — Arsh Buch
- Q&A with former Uber and Google Marketer — Kenzo Fong Hing
Week Eight — Week of November 2
- Niantic Labs Head of Talent — Marissa Huang
- Pitching Presentation Best Practices — Shreenath Regunathan
- Careers in Social Policy — Anjali Mathur
- Building Equitable Futures in Tech — Brandon Middleton, Devaris Brown, Olatunde Sobomehin, Jason Maydern
- Wilbur Labs Q&A and Learnings from a Young Startup Founder — Phil Santoro
Round Tables Mentoring Session
Thank you to our incredible mentors who gave up time to meet and speak with Xoogler School students to share their experiences and offer career advice during Week 6!
- David Kramer
- Luisa Giaquinto
- Rachel Rosenson
- Sandeep Anantharaman
- Gim Crew
- Jason Liu
- Murat Yatagan
- Eric Couillard
- Simon Sturmer
- Victoria Wobber
- Lars van Wieren
- Sinclair Wu
- Marjai Roberts
- Dobromir Yordanov
- Henry Tan
- Kartik Krishnan
- Liana Slater
- Angela Christian
- Christy Gourley
- Deepanshu Madan
- Eric Nehrlich
- Mark Coleman
- David Janmohamed
- Lirida Kercelli
- Alex Kolchinski
Program Mentors
A final thank you to the students who made this program the success that it was! Your continuous enthusiasm and drive to learn made this program exciting and we wish you the best in your early careers!
