First-generation professionals are trailblazers, forging a path into professional work environments that might be very different from those experienced by their families or loved ones. And while the experience might be supportive for some, the transition might feel insurmountable for others. It can be fraught with complexities as professional and personal worlds collide and sometimes even contradict.

Join us and first-generation professional advocate Bernice Maldonado to learn about her research on the first-gen experience and have a supportive conversation with others who have experienced this transition firsthand. You will also learn how to understand whether an organization’s culture is inclusive to first-gen professionals when choosing to take a job or starting a new role.

Interested in learning more about Google? Join this session to learn about Google’s interview format, how to prepare for a technical interview at Google, some common mistakes made during recruitment, and some often-asked sample interview questions.

This session is offered as a partnership between the Alumni Career Program and Google’s Project Pathfinder. It’s aimed at helping foster an equitable hiring process, creating connections, and helping reduce imposter syndrome by supporting University of Michigan alums with resources, materials, and insight into life at Google.

*This event is educational in nature in connecting University of Michigan alums to Google for the purposes of rapport-building and answering your questions. Please note, while this isn’t a recruitment or hiring event, any touchpoint with employers should be considered one in which candidacy may be considered. To prepare, view our Job Search 101 resources on resumes and more.

International alumni looking to remain in or relocate from their home countries to the USA face different complexities in the job search. Join Steph Szuch, currently located in Argentina, to not only learn her personal experience of the international job search but to identify and get clarity on:

• Limiting beliefs for the international job seeker
• How to reframe transferable skills and their applicability to new career paths
• Turning your perception of your international candidacy into an asset for prospective employers

*This session is specifically focused on career design for job seekers and is NOT a session in which the technical aspects of visa applications and legal implications for the international job seeker will be discussed.