Career + Community: Collaborations

DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION ROUND TABLE

with the Employer Advisory Council

In January 2021, our Employer Relations and Recruiting team kicked off the year with a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Roundtable in partnership with our Employer Advisory Council.

Council members and recruiting partners from Google, Amazon, Fidelity and Wayfair met with students to discuss their organization’s efforts to promote, support, and move towards a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive workforce. The session also featured an opportunity to join smaller breakout sessions to dive deeper into select topics with each company.

Special thanks to our partners for this event:

CAREER + IDENTITY SERIES

In the spring, the CDO organized the first Career + Identity series. Students participated in this four-part workshop series to share how identity impacts career exploration and the job search, and to discuss important topics including: • How to evaluate a company’s DEI commitment • How to spot racial gaslighting • How to identify allies in the recruiting process and supportive organizations

HACKATHON FOR INCLUSION: IDENTIFYING INCLUSIVE EMPLOYERS WITH SHARED VALUES

Sponsor: MIT Sloan Career Development Office

The CDO manages relationships with hundreds of companies that want to improve diversity in their organizations. Students similarly identify DE&I as an important factor to consider when evaluating their potential employers. However, it can be difficult to identify which companies are truly committed.

In 2021, we sponsored a hackathon project to ideate on ways to identify inclusive employers through data, and how to assist students in finding employers that share their values.

ALUMNI AFFINITY COUNCIL CAREER SERIES

MIT Sloan alumni are active contributors to the career community. In 2021, the MIT Sloan Affinity Council’s Career Series featured events for Big Tech and Entrepreneurship, led by alumni from the Classes of 2014 through 2019.

After a busy year supporting networking and career connections, the Affinity Group Alumni Council, the Office of External Relations, and the Career Development Office connected with students and alumni for a year-end mixer celebrating activity from the 2021 year.

A special thank you to the MIT Sloan Affinity Group Alumni Council for all they do to support Sloanies.

ACCELERATING NETWORKING

In December, we partnered with Tarek Makawi, MBA ’23 and Nahel Rifai Burneo, MBA ’23, two enterprising students who designed a system to efficiently match their classmates for our very first Sloanies Speed Networking event. Students joined us in the InnovationHQ Hacker Reactor space to share their career interests and build community.

CELEBRATING DIFFERENT THINKERS AND INNOVATION

We reconnected with our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion artwork in 2021, highlighting select pieces in a series of posts on the CDO’s LinkedIn Group. In so many ways, 2021 proved when we collaborate, we find better ways forward. This post had the most fans:

At MIT Sloan, innovation is more than a buzzword.

It’s how we work, and at the heart of it is thinking differently. Whether improving a process or inventing something new, teams that consider as many viewpoints as possible come up with ingenious solutions that just work better. They bring more ideas, they challenge assumptions, they combine two ideas into something completely new.

Thinking differently - it’s not just a value, it’s a competitive advantage. We celebrate teams with different thinkers for the innovation they bring to the world!