Tech Job Offer Accelerator
4 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
Boost the velocity, quality, and quantity of tech job interviews and offers with expert coaching and accountability group support.
Tech Job Offer Accelerator
4 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
Boost the velocity, quality, and quantity of tech job interviews and offers with expert coaching and accountability group support.
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Course overview
Leverage the wisdom of a supportive group to accelerate your job offer
Landing a new job in the tech space can be challenging and lonely. There is no reason you have to go it alone anymore.
This course is designed as an accountability group, guided by a 25+ year tech veteran, including ten years at Microsoft, to help you accelerate and innovate your job search, networking, and branding strategy, ideally leading to landing your next job.
Cohort Experience:
- Topics and discussions will be guided by the top pain points of the cohort
- The format includes both instruction on career strategies and open Q&A.
- Collaboration and asynchronous coaching via Slack as well
What You'll Gain from this Cohort Experience:
✓ Expert feedback on your LinkedIn technical profile
✓ Recommendations to improve the strength and clarity of your resume
✓ Practice putting career strategies into action each week and getting feedback
✓ Deeper self-awareness that generates new ideas to refine your approach
✓ Improved clarity of what you are offering, to who, and how it's differentiated
✓ Practice telling your stories to nail the connection with stakeholders
✓ Accountability from a supportive group, boosting your chances to enhance your brand, network, and job prospects.
✓ Best practices and ideas from cohort members
Highlights:
- Live Sessions: Collaborate to share your progress and help needed to unblock your progress.
- Supportive Community: Collaborate in an interactive Slack group
- Certified Coach: Get feedback from an experienced career strategy coach and hiring manager
Ideal For:
- Ambitious tech professionals who thrive in a collaborative and supportive group
- Curious people who invite feedback and support to help them achieve an outcome
Why Choose This Course:
- Less expensive than 1:1 coaching
- Personalized coaching from a career strategy expert
- Access to proven job search, networking, and brand strategies
- Experienced technical career coach with 200+ technology sector clients
You'll go from doing it alone to a supportive cohort that thrives on seeing all boats rise.
Join me as your guide, and enroll today.
📅 Days and times for the cohort live sessions can be adjusted based on the cohort members' requirements.
🔟 Maximum of 10 cohort members to ensure a personalized experience.
🌟 Bonus: Personalized 1:1 coaching session post-course ($150 value).
Who is this course for
01
Tech professionals, including product managers, data engineers, data scientists, data analysts, AI/ML engineers, and data/AI strategists.
02
Ambitious people seeking a new job in the tech space that need to accelerate progress to land interviews and offers.
03
People who are frustrated working alone to land a job, and need weekly accountability and support to stay motivated and get feedback.
What you’ll get out of this accountability group experience
Compose clarity and credibility into your technical profile
- Simplify and clarify your resume bullet statements to showcase your technical achievements and skills.
- Critique and refine your LinkedIn profile to attract companies that align with your offering.
- Build out your technical portfolio to show evidence.
Differentiate your technical profile to stand out
- Learn how to use technical projects and thought leadership content to influence prospective employers.
- Design a content strategy to showcase your technical acumen.
Examine your ideas and group feedback to deepen self-awareness
- Discover insights to guide your job search and personal brand strategy.
- Share out your career path and job strategy ideas to get feedback.
Share out what goals/tasks you achieved and the help needed to drive accountability
- Collaborate with other motivated tech professionals to hold each other accountable to goals/tasks that directly contribute to landing the next job.
- Share out your challenges to get feedback from the group and unblock your progress.
Demo your stories to convince your stakeholders
- Practice your "Tell me about yourself" story to master your introduction and establish a strong connection with prospective employers.
- Practice sharing your story on technical achievements or scenarios that demonstrate your expertise.
Actionable career strategy advice from a certified coach and tech industry veteran
- Innovate your job search, networking, and branding strategy with advice from a 30-year tech industry veteran and leadership coach.
This course includes
8 interactive live sessions
Lifetime access to course materials
In-depth lessons
Direct access to instructor
Projects to apply learnings
Guided feedback & reflection
Private community of peers
Course certificate upon completion
Maven Satisfaction Guarantee
This course is backed by Maven’s guarantee. You can receive a full refund within 14 days after the course ends, provided you meet the completion criteria in our refund policy.
Tech Job Offer Accelerator
Course syllabus
Week 1
Aug
28
Live Group Session 1
Sep
1
Live Group Session 2
Week 1 Job Offer Accelerator Topics and Open Q&A
Week 2
Sep
4
Live Group Session 3
Sep
8
Live Group Session 4
Week 2 Job Offer Accelerator Topics and Open Q&A
Week 3
Sep
11
Live Group Session 5
Sep
15
Live Group Session 6
Week 3 Job Offer Accelerator Topics and Open Q&A
Week 4
Sep
18
Live Group Session 7
Sep
22
Live Group Session 8
Week 4 Job Offer Accelerator Topics and Open Q&A
Bonus
Free 30-Minute Coaching Session
Tech Exec and Certified Coach - James Gray
James Gray
Tech Exec, B-School Coach and Instructor
Hi, this is James. I am a UC Berkeley-trained data and AI strategist who works with leading companies that seek to use technology as a competitive advantage. I also teach data and artificial intelligence strategy at the renowned Berkeley Haas School of Business and coach tech-industry professionals and graduate students at the Gies College of Business, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Over the past 30+ years, I have held CIO, CPO, data science, and product management roles at leading organizations like Microsoft. I have a long track record for developing talent in organizations and coaching leaders and professionals in the tech sector.
Why I started this course
Job searches, building a brand, and landing a job can be challenging, even more so when you go it alone! Get the support you need from a certified coach and a small, supportive group.
Let's connect on LinkedIn to grow and support each other together. You can also review the 40+ recommendations for my technical, leadership, and coaching achievements.
Course schedule
2-4 hours per week
Wednesdays & Sundays
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm EST
Note that there is some flexibility in adjusting the days/times depending on the group's needs.
The objective is for you to have a clear attack plan on Sunday for the week ahead and open Q&A.
Wednesday is a mid-point check-in.
Learning is better with cohorts
Active hands-on learning
This course builds on live workshops and hands-on projects
Interactive and project-based
You’ll be interacting with other learners through breakout rooms and project teams
Learn with a cohort of peers
Join a community of like-minded people who want to learn and grow alongside you