Featured Job: Director @ Gestalt Community Schools
Gestalt Community Schools is seeking a Director of Literacy in Memphis, TN.
The Directory of Literacy is primarily charged with developing, monitoring, and refining the network literacy framework and instructional program. The Literacy Director works closely with the school based specialists to provide continuity for K-12.
To learn more, or to apply online, visit the Gestalt Community Schools website.
Featured Job: Director @ Blue Apron
Blue Apron is seeking a Director of Operations, Systems & Technology in New York, NY.
The Director of Operations, Systems & Technology will lead the business side of one of our company’s largest and most critical initiatives – the design and roll out of our proprietary, home-grown internal technology tools. A close collaboration across Operations, Product Management, and Engineering, this workstream is key to scaling our rapidly-growing nationwide fulfillment center network and driving our competitive advantage. Our internal software tools manage the forecasting, purchasing, storage, preparation, and shipment of fresh ingredients every week, enabling our company to deliver over 8 million meals nationwide monthly. The nature of our business poses unique supply chain and logistical challenges that require purpose-built solutions and data analysis.
To learn more, or to apply online, visit the Blue Apron website.
CCP99: Gayle Laakmann McDowell, CareerCup.com
Episode 99 of the Copeland Coaching Podcast is now live!
This week, we talk with Gayle Laakmann McDowell in Palo Alto, CA. Gayle is the Founder and CEO of CareerCup.com and Author of multiple interview books, including Cracking the Coding Interview, Cracking the PM Interview, and Cracking the Tech Career. Her background is in software development with undergrad and graduate degrees in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania, and a MBA from the Wharton School. She previously worked as a software engineer at Google, Microsoft, and Apple.
On today’s episode, Gayle shares her advice on how to crack the coding interview. She also shares tips on how to move from one functional area to another, and how to avoid common mistakes.
Listen and learn more! You can play the podcast here, or download it for free on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. If you enjoy the program, subscribe today to the Copeland Coaching Podcast on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher to ensure you don’t miss an episode!
To learn more about Gayle and Career Cup, visit her website here.
Featured Job: Wine Sales Rep @ Delta Wholesale
Delta Wholesale Liquors is seeking a Retail Wine Sales Representative in Memphis, TN.
Responsibilities:
- Learns and executes the seven basics of Delta Wholesale Liquors, Inc.: distribution, position, display, pricing, point-of-sale, cold box, and rotation in each account.
- Services and maintains current accounts with orders for Delta Products and customer service.
- Travels through assigned territory daily to call on regular customers to solicit orders, presents items for distribution, maintains Delta merchandising standards, and handles damages and off-condition product.
- Secures feature ads and displays.
- Quotes bottle cost and target pricing to customers.
- Estimates date of delivery to customer, based on knowledge of delivery schedules.
- Confers with Sales Manager and Marketing & Programming Manager to resolve customer problems.
- Investigates and resolves customer problems with deliveries.
- Identifies and responds to customers’ needs.
- Maintains frequent and open communication with Sales Manager, Marketing & Programming Manager, and the Vice President.
- Prepares and/or maintains distribution tracking reports, planning and goals, case quotas, and dollar objectives and other administrative tasks as assigned.
- Executes sales plans and maintains accounts according to company standards.
To learn more, or to apply online, visit the Delta Wholesale Liquors website.
Featured Job: VP, Development @ Lucasfilm
Lucasfilm is seeking a Vice President of Development in San Francisco, CA.
Responsibilities:
- Partners with SVP, Development in facilitating the best creative process for writers and filmmakers throughout development and production. Builds strong, supportive relationships with all Lucasfilm content creators.
- Partners with the SVP, Development to assess content needs and identify new content for acquisition or internal development.
- Maintains strong relationships with talent agencies and the entertainment community to identify the best creative talent for Lucasfilm projects. Stays abreast of
emerging talent in the feature film, animation, and television spaces. Identifies talent to watch. - Understands and enforces the content and brand strategies across all platforms to ensure franchise alignment throughout Lucasfilm and the larger Walt Disney Company. Entails partnering with Lucasfilm and Disney executive leadership in all aspects of story concept approval and strategy development.
- Partners with the SVP, Development in the administration, management, and mentorship of the Story Group.
- Provides creative input, feedback, and support to all members of the Story Group and ILMxLab on storytelling projects across all platforms and presents
- Partners with Business Affairs during negotiation of writer and director deals, as required.
To learn more, or to apply online, visit the Lucasfilm website.
What would you do if you didn’t have to work?
Often, when we’re unhappy at work, we’d rather be doing ANYTHING else. It could pay less money, and it might not even use our brain. But, if we could just get away from our current workplace, we’d jump on the opportunity.
Unfortunately, running away from the burning building is rarely the answer. The next office often has many of the same problems. Only now, we’ve got to figure out how to make ends meet with less money.
It’s often better to turn the question on it’s head all together and start to think of what you’d like to do, if you could do anything at all.
I often think back to my time in graduate school. After expecting to finish my full-time program in twenty-months, I finished in fifteen. As graduation crept up, I participated in many job interviews and offers began to roll in.
One of the job offers was almost too good to resist. It was for a big brand name company that you have definitely heard of. The company is very impressive and getting an offer was no small feat. Their interview process included onsite interviews with many different people, an IQ test (that was a lot like taking the SAT), and even a psychological evaluation.
The offer was the most money I’d ever been given up to that point. It was roughly twice what I had made just fifteen months before, when I entered school. It included a big signing bonus, full relocation for me and my boyfriend, great vacation — the works. The company was so excited about me that they even mailed a bouquet of flowers to my house.
The problem was this. Before graduate school, I was an IT Project Manager. It was an awesome job. I learned a lot, and then went to get my MBA in order to grow my skills and try my hand at something new. The job offer at this big impressive company was also to be an IT Project Manager. But, like I said, it was for twice the money.
It would have been easy to say yes. The company would have sent movers to box everything up. They would have written me a big check, and off I would have gone to a new city.
Unfortunately, it just didn’t sit well with me. I had saved money for years in order to go to school. I wanted to grow my career, not just my pocketbook. I didn’t want to do the same job as before, even if it was for more money.
So, what did I do? I turned the job down. In fact, I turned every job down.
I decided that if I could complete school five months earlier than planned, I could take a few months to decide what I’d do — if I didn’t have to do anything.
A few of the skills I had were: building websites and doing research and analysis. I also had a fairly natural sense for marketing. Before I knew it, I was working for myself. And, I became a digital marketer. I sold shoes for a website called Zappos.com. I would research the shoes, build websites to sell them, and then promote them online. Zappos paid me a commission on every pair of their shoes I sold.
The process was hard. I kept that high dollar offer letter at home, and sometimes I wondered if I’d made the right choice.
But, in the end, it was absolutely the right choice. I created an entirely new career path for myself. I combined skills I already had, with what I gained in business school, and then grew my expertise through actually doing the new job. And, working for myself led to a corporate career in digital marketing.
The thing that really surprised me at the time was how many of the skills I needed to do the job I already had. They were random things I’d learned in college, or had done as a hobby. But, I was using them in a different way.
If you’re thinking of jumping into a new career, there’s a good chance you may also have skills that can be re-purposed into another field. You just have to be willing to take a risk and ask yourself, “What would I be doing if I didn’t have to work?”
I hope these tips have helped you. Visit CopelandCoaching.com to find more tips to improve your job search. If I can be of assistance to you, don’t hesitate to reach out to me here.
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Happy hunting!
Angela Copeland
@CopelandCoach
Featured Job: Vice President @ Nordstrom
Nordstrom is seeking a Vice President of Engineering in Seattle, WA.
To learn more, or to apply online, visit the Nordstrom website.
Featured Job: Manager @ Smith & Nephew
Smith and Nephew is seeking a Manager of Forensics and e-Discovery in Memphis, TN.
The Information Security Manager reports into the Director of Information Security and is responsible for developing and governing the functions which ensure IT operations, infrastructure and systems are secure.
The Forensic Technology Manager will provide and manage Computer Forensic services including digital evidence preservation, analysis, data recovery, tape recovery, electronic mail extraction, and database examination. In addition will provide oversight for on-site and internal investigations, act as an advisor on forensic requests and will ensure handling of evidence in accordance with sound chain of custody methods.
To learn more, or to apply online, visit the Smith and Nephew website.
Featured Job: Professor @ University of Virginia
The University of Virginia is seeking an Instructor of Leadership. This is a remote, work from home, opportunity.
UVa’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies seeks applicants to fill non-tenure track part-time instructor positions in the Graduate Certificate Program in Leadership beginning Fall 2016. This is an online program. SCPS employs academic faculty who have applicable content expertise at the appropriate level, and who provide evidence of recent and/or current professional experience which applies to students’ achieving the goals and learning outcomes of the program.
Subject area needs include, but are not limited to: The Foundations of Leadership, Strategic Leadership, and Organizational Leadership. A relevant terminal degree is required and a minimum of five years of leadership experience is preferred.
To learn more, or to apply online, visit the University of Virginia website.
Featured Job: Product Manager @ Kodak
Kodak is seeking a Product Manager. This is a remote, work from home, opportunity!
The US&C Product Manager will develop, execute, and manage all product and marketing activities related to the EPS portfolio for the US&C cluster. This includes developing and executing Marketing strategies and plans that allow the direct and indirect Sales Organization to maximize both revenue and profit to Kodak. This position will work closely with the US&C marketing manager, EPS annuity manager and EPS sales specialists to develop cluster-specific business plans, marketing strategies, sales pipeline development, base management programs and tactics that support the company’s product and go-to-market strategies and the achievement of our annual business objectives.
To learn more, or to apply online, visit the Kodak website.
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