Grow Your Career Program
The Grow Your Career Program, with volunteer support from BCG Digital Ventures women, is a 10-week virtual professional development program for women early in their careers looking for a career change
Program Dates: Wednesday, October 7th to Thursday, December 10th
Decisions made early in one’s career can set women on trajectories that increase the likelihood of long-term career success.
The Grow Your Career Program will provide you with a peer community, 1:1 mentorship with BCG Digital Ventures women volunteers across all cohorts / enabling areas and professional development workshops, including exclusive panels / career fairs, to assist you with your career change. Throughout the program, you’ll identify your career goals, grow your professional network, and take action in navigating a career change, all virtually.
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Mentorship
Each participant is matched with a mentor from BCG Digital Ventures Women. Mentors and mentees will meet 3X for 30 minutes over the course of the 10 weeks
Professional Development
Participants will engage in ATH-sponsored professional development workshops / events focused on topics around professional growth and discovery in one’s early career, hosted by Aspire to Her mentors
Networking
Participants are invited to join virtual networking events, including Speed Networking and a Virtual Career Fair.
Participants will be assigned to a ‘pod’ of peers, who will meet on a monthly basis to discuss the professional development focus area of the month
The program will culminate with a Virtual Career Fair in which participants will have the opportunity to meet talent leads from various industries (tech, media, consulting, etc.) The event will include small group breakouts focused on how to break into a particular industry, as well as 1:1 chats.
Programming is focused on 3 tracks:
(1) Setting Career Goals
Identifying what you want to do and achieve with your career is the first and hardest step. But you don’t have to do it alone! Learn how to build your personal brand and intentional career with industry leaders and peer support.
Key Events:
Building Your Personal Brand workshop
Building an Intentional Career panel with industry experts (e.g., TikTok, Spotify)
(2) Building Your Network
Attend exclusive virtual networking events and chat with experienced leaders and peers that span a variety of industries.
Key Events:
How to Network with Purpose workshop
Speed Networking event with industry leaders (e.g., Birchbox, BCG Digital Ventures)
(3) Boosting Your Career
After reflecting on your aspirations and expanding your network, it’s time to take action. Meet recruiters and learn more about landing your dream job.
Key Events:
Career Pathing panel
Virtual Career Fair with recruiters and talent leads from top companies (e.g., Google)
Participating industry leaders, exclusive to program participants:
Emem Adjah, Head of Yield - Monetization Strategy at Spotify
Tatiana Kuzmowcyz, Global Creative Director at ClassPass
Allison Nye, VP of Ops at Birchbox
If you’re interested in growing your career with us, please submit your application here. Upon submission, we will review your application and resume. Applications close September 20th.
FAQ
We highly encourage womxn 2-5 years into their career looking for a change to apply. If you don’t meet the criteria, please indicate why you believe the program is a good fit for you in the application.
The last day to apply is 11:59PM ET Sunday, September 20th.
We're looking for individuals with a strong passion for learning. Applicants should be excited to explore making a change in their career, growing their skill set, and expanding their network. No specific skills are needed to be accepted into the program. We are looking to bring on a diverse set of participants with different professional backgrounds.
This program will take place virtually. We will operate in the Eastern time zone. It will launch on Wednesday, October 7th and be completed on Thursday, December 10th. Events will take place on weekdays - likely Mondays or Wednesdays - in the evening (after 6:30 PM ET).
We understand most applicants have full-time jobs. Events and meetings will take up no more than 1-2 hours per week.
No. All sales are final.
Once accepted, you have 48 hours to pay the $245 program fee and confirm your participation in the program.
We understand that this is a difficult time for many. Need and merit based scholarships are available. Please contact us here to be considered.