Monday, January 22 2018

TO:  Campus Community

FR:  Melinda Crawford, Manager, Employment/Training & Development, Human Resources

RE:  My UC Career Website Launch

We are pleased to announce the launch of My UC Career, a new online, self-directed development portal available to all UC employees seeking to advance their career.   

UCSB employees have increasingly identified career exploration, growth, and development opportunities as critical to their engagement and retention. My UC Career provides employees with instant access to the following six self-paced modules:

1.  Begin Career Discovery: Use personal assessments to help identify values, personality, skills, and talents.

2.  Job Search: Leverage the existing Systemwide Job Board, in one search, to view all UC opportunities by job type, location, or career level. Create multiple alerts for new postings that are most interesting.

3.  Resume: Build a new resume or revise an existing resume using the step by step online resume workshop to automatically build an accomplishment-based resume tailored to the identified career path. View resume building guides and resume samples by position or type.

4.  Tell Your Story: Create a pitch statement, cover letter, and references to tell what you have to offer and how ou can help the organization succeed. Use the step by step online workshop to automatically build each document. View samples of each type of document.

5.  Network and Research: Optimize social media presence and use research tools to help leverage your networks that uncover additional career opportunities.

6.  Pre and Post Interview: Practice interview skills by recording video interviews using pre-recorded portal interviewers that ask you questions, review interview type guides, create a post-interview thank you note, and review the offer negotiation guide and decision making tools.

All UC employees should register for a My UC Career account using their UCSB email address.  Additional information about My UC Career and other career development resources is available via the Professional Development section of the Systemwide Integrated Talent Management website. Quick links to this site are also available on the Current Employees web page and the Employment web page of the UCSB Human Resources website, as well as via the Career Roadmap section of the UCSB Learning Center website