This Week

Announcements

• Students who have completed their core course requirements may participate in an exchange program, in either the Fall semester or the Spring Semester. More info and partner schools here.
• Key dates to remember:
  • Applications Open: Mar 15
  • Deadline to Apply: Mar 29
  • Notifications: Apr 1
  • Deadline to confirm: Apr 12

• The Chou Hall Individual Workroom program for Haas graduate students will resume and with expanded hours on Mondays and Tuesdays. This will allow students to utilize indoor workspaces here at Haas. It is optional and voluntary; students are not required to participate.
• Reservations are 3 hours maximum on:
  • Mondays and Tuesdays: 9AM until 9PM
  • Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays: 9AM until 4PM
  • Haas is hoping to expand access to these workrooms to include Wednesday and Thursday evenings and weekends and the Program Office will keep students posted.
• Refer to the email titled "[EWMBA] Chou Hall Individual Workrooms for Haas Graduate Students."

Class of 2021

• For students graduating in May or Aug 2021, review graduation requirements and the recording and slides from our 3rd year advising on how to complete a graduation audit.
• If you will not graduate in May or Aug 2021, complete the Graduation Date Modification Form by Feb 28 to participate in Summer and/or Fall bidding.
• EWMBA students do not need to submit an intent to graduate. The Program Office will check the graduation requirements for students at the end of the semester.

Important Reminders

• The Dean's Speaker Series for the Spring have been posted. For recordings and a list of future speakers, visit the DSS page.
• The next New Thinking at Berkeley Haas will be on Thursday Feb 25 at noon with Dean Harrison and Jingdong Hua, VP and Treasurer of the World Bank.

• Please review the Registration Timeline for Summer and Fall 2021 Electives enrollment dates.
• The Registration Timeline allows students to know results of Summer Elective Bidding before Fall bidding begins. 
• There will be a Summer Drop Only Round in Apr for students to make final adjustments to their Summer schedules. 
• We will announce anticipated mode of instruction (Remote or In Person) before each round of Bidding.

Class of 2023

• Class of 2023 students are eligible to take certain Summer elective courses.
• If you are considering taking summer courses, check the Registration Timeline for important dates.
• Pay special attention to any course pre-reqs in the course description.
• We'll cover more about elective registration in First Year Advising Sessions on:
  • Thursday Mar 4, 12 noon PST
  • Thursday Mar 4, 5PM PST

Student Groups

Self Care Tips

Career Corner

• Are you interested in making a career change but not sure how to evaluate potential roles?
• The Criteria workshop will help you clarify your priorities for your next role and develop criteria that can be used to assess roles and companies. 

Transferable Skills 
Wednesday Feb 24, 12-1PM PST
Register in BEARS!

• You’ll hear this term frequently, especially if you are changing roles and/or industries.
• This workshop will help you describe your accomplishments in a way that your new audience can easily understand: reframe your experience such that people in different industries/roles/organizations understand its value. 

• Our Leadership Presence & Your Real Story Workshop will give you tools and ways of being that will support you in showing up as the real deal.
• What we are finding is that as you go out into the market and have conversations with people, your ability to communicate your confidence, your curiosity, and your clarity of intention is priceless in cultivating relationships and creating job/career opportunities.

CMG Resources Chat for EW students:
Networking & LinkedIn (and tips for CMG BEARS!) 
Thursday Feb 25, 12-1PM PST
Register in BEARS!

• Want to make sure you are tapping into all the great CMG online resources to support you in your career goals? Come to these quick, 30-minute virtual sessions each month, where we will show you the CMG online resources related to Networking and LinkedIn, Q&A (depending on how many questions you have!). We will also give you a few tips on getting the most out of CMG BEARS.
• Please note, this session is meant to provide an overview of the various Networking and LinkedIn resources available to you as an EWMBA student and is not a workshop on how to network or use LinkedIn (we have other workshops for that).

Events

• Practitioners at top firms will share their experiences, how to prepare for a career in quantitative finance and data science, and trends emerging in the field. Q&A will follow. If you are interested in a career in finance or data science, don't miss this opportunity!
• RSVP here.

Program Office Tips & Tidbits

• The OGD provides support services specifically focused on the needs of underrepresented prospective and continuing graduate students at Berkeley.
  • Diversity viewbook that will assist students understand the DEIB landscape at Cal.
  • Diversity Initiatives on campus for graduate students.
  • Diversity and Community Fellows work across and within academic units to create healthy communities for graduate students and hold weekly office hours.
  • All of the OGD Staff also have office hours.