On Monday, October 19, 2021, WICS held a Resume Workshop to help students polish their resume in preparation for recruiting season. Representatives from Amazon, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Northrop Grumman, Plaid, Taco Bell, and Zillow were split into small breakout rooms with students. The representative walked through three resumes, in the order
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On Monday, October 11th, 2021 of Week 3, we had various companies including CrowdStrike, Northrop Grumman, Cisco, Taco Bell, and Zillow join 50+ students to play some fun games together! WICS Games is one of the largest events that we host annually where students get to network with companies while
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This Wednesday, October 6th, WICS collaborated with other UCI campus organizations such as SWE, NSBE, and SHPE to host the Stripe Company Info Session. The meeting began with club introductions and some fun ice breaker questions. Afterwards, we were able to meet Richard Noguchi from Stripe and his other team
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On Monday, September 27, 2021, of Week 1, WICS held the First General Meeting for the fall quarter of the new year! Existing members and new students from several majors/backgrounds came to learn more about WICS and what events WICS had in store this quarter. General members were also able
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On Monday, May 25, WICS hosted our last general meeting of the quarter, a social event where members learned to cook a dessert or drink from various WICS Committee members. The meeting started off with a farewell to the members of WICS Committee graduating this quarter. Then, members split into
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On Monday, May 17th, WICS Hosted the WICS Arcade Night to offer a space for attendees to destress and spend some fun time together during midterm season and upcoming finals. Overall, there were six separate games with their associated leaders: Drawphone, Bombparty, Just Dance Now, Tetris, Codenames, and Bonfire Hot
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On Monday, May 10th, WICS hosted a Resume Workshop collaborating with the organization Hack at UCI to pair students with industry professionals to get feedback on their resumes. Instead of using Zoom, the event was held on Discord, which allowed for an easier process of moving students into rooms with
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On Monday, May 5th, WICS hosted a negotiation panel to prepare all kinds of job seekers to face the ultimate stage of the recruitment process: negotiating your salary and benefits. The panel consisted of experts on the topic, from IT recruiters to senior engineers. The event started with an audience
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On Monday, April 26th, a recruiter from PennyMac went over tips on how to write a professional email. We learned that emails should be friendly, pleasant and informative with important information clearly, and concisely presented in bullet points. We also learned the differences between cc and bcc and how to
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On Friday, April 9th, WICS held their third and final Mentorship Workshop to allow families to continue working on their websites. For this workshop, the mentors and mentees were able to learn how to work with Git Branches, Pull Requests and Heroku. The demonstration included showing families how to use
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