Career Webinars
Join us for a webinar series hosted by alumni industry experts and career coaches on an assortment of supportive career subjects.
Ace Your Next Interview: From Preparation to Practice
Join us for an engaging session designed to boost your interview skills and confidence. In this webinar, you’ll learn how to effectively prepare for interviews, craft compelling answers using proven formulas, and practice with cutting-edge tools. We’ll cover everything from researching the company to formulating responses to common and tricky questions. By the end of this session, you’ll be equipped with actionable strategies to navigate any interview with ease and leave a lasting impression. Perfect for job seekers at all stages, this webinar will help you turn interview opportunities into job offers.
Tristan Layfield is a University of Michigan alum and the owner and principal career coach at Career Clarity Solutions, which has helped over 1,500 people identify and leverage their unique value proposition to transition their careers. His practice, rooted in personal leadership and self-advocacy, helps empower job seekers to effectively communicate their value to attract their ideal jobs and employers.
With his work featured on major platforms such as Harvard Business Review, LinkedIn, Business Insider, Black Enterprise, and Entrepreneur, Tristan aims to help job seekers build professional brands that transform their mindsets, advance their careers, and expedite their job search.
Toward Ending Hair Discrimination in the Workplace
People of African ancestry often face discrimination due to their natural hair or protective hairstyles. This webinar will equip both employers and employees with the knowledge and tools necessary to identify and eliminate hair bias and discrimination in workplace practices and interactions.
By attending this webinar, you will learn:
- What hair-based discrimination is and how it affects employment and educational opportunities
- The impact of the CROWN Act on workplace policies and practices
- Practical steps to end hair discrimination in your workplace
With a dynamic 15-year career in higher education, Kierra Trotter has held key leadership roles in student life and academic affairs at Big Ten institutions, including the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. She has been instrumental in advancing U-M’s ambitious student-facing visions for equity and belonging across career services, living-learning programs, and academic advising. Currently, Kierra serves as the Director of Alumni Career and Education for the Alumni Association of the University of Michigan, where she is dedicated to facilitating innovative lifelong learning and professional development opportunities for U-M alumni.
LinkedIn + ChatGPT for Interviewing: Advanced Interview Hacks
You know the drill: Memorize the most likely questions, memorize your answers, and then regurgitate on demand.
Unfortunately, it turns out that your human interviewer is the exact opposite of a Scantron machine. Instead of grading you objectively for being “right” or “wrong,” the latest neuroscience shows that we homo sapiens make our decisions based on much fuzzier logic.
So who better to learn advanced interviewing skills from than a kindergarten teacher who beat out consultants and bankers to win jobs at Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, LinkedIn, Udacity, 23andMe, and Khan Academy? Join Jeremy Schifeling to discover:
- The two things every interviewer is actually looking for — and no, they’re not the STAR framework and a firm handshake
- Why winning the first five minutes of the interview is critical — and much more important than the perfect case structure or thank-you letter
- The exact recipes to become a more organized and charismatic communicator — even if you’re an introvert or a non-native English speaker or interviews are your Kryptonite
- How to leverage the latest AI and LinkedIn tools to get ready for massive success
Jeremy Schifeling has devoted his career to helping others succeed in theirs. From teaching kindergarten in Brooklyn to recruiting top students at Teach For America to leading education marketing at LinkedIn, he’s touched the lives of millions of people at every stage of their journeys. Along the way, he’s published the best-selling LinkedIn and ChatGPT for job seeking books on Amazon, served as a career coach for military veterans at Shift.org and MBA students at the University of Michigan, and produced the most-viewed video in LinkedIn’s history.
Rethinking Procrastination: How High Achievers Get Unstuck
Everyone procrastinates. Yet, when you’re accustomed to accomplishing your goals, feeling stuck in your career or personal life can feel even more frustrating. Beating yourself up or avoiding the situation can make things worse. Moreover, conventional advice doesn’t always help the smart and caring. Depending on how you’re stuck, you need different tactics.
Having worked with hundreds of high achievers, research scientist-turned-life coach Dr. Stacy Kim shares common pitfalls that talented individuals need to avoid and how to rethink roadblocks. Walk away with practical strategies and easy tweaks to help you move forward in finding more rewarding and meaningful work and deepening important relationships.
Stacy S. Kim, PhD, is a social scientist, life coach, and productivity nerd obsessed with the intersection of career and family. She has written for Real Simple, WIRED, The Washington Post, and The New York Times. She previously worked for the Families and Work Institute and Columbia University. She speaks English, Korean, and three statistical programming languages.
She couldn’t be prouder to be mom to a current Wolverine despite being a graduate of another Big Ten school.
Career Bites
Miss one of our webinars? Our Career Bites provide you with the top tips from our career experts. Full recordings are also available for viewing anytime.
Discover how you can find a connection’s email address without LinkedIn premium.
Career coach Elise Auxier, ’80, shares how to prepare for the latest interview questions that have emerged since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tips on when you should bring up the expected salary during a job interview.
Don’t let the myth get in your way. It’s not greedy to negotiate a salary.
Discover how you can find a connection’s email address without LinkedIn premium.
Career coach Elise Auxier, ’80, shares how to prepare for the latest interview questions that have emerged since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tips on when you should bring up the expected salary during a job interview.
Don’t let the myth get in your way. It’s not greedy to negotiate a salary.