Speeding Towards Success: Career Events
In March 2016 the Alumni Organization, in collaboration with TAU's Career Development Center, launched 'Speeding Towards Success' – a series of career events targeting young TAU graduates and seniors in their last year of studies, from all faculties on campus. The series aims to provide our young alumni with tools for managing and cultivating their careers, alongside networking opportunities and connections with influential persons and companies in Israeli industries.
Each meeting includes a central address by a representative of a leading Israeli corporation, focusing on a chosen theme, with marked added value for young graduates; as well as a lecture by a senior executive (past or present) in a placement agency. The participating corporation also puts up a booth for recruiting suitable job candidates.
The first event, which focused on innovation, featured the Osem Group, a major player in Israel's food industry. Ms. Ilanit Kabessa, the Group's Innovation & Business Development Manager, gave a talk entitled 'Innovation in a nutshell', and Prof. Jonathan Smilansky, Head of the Career Development Center at TAU's Business Faculty - an international expert on career development, consultant to leading organizations and Director of TAU's Career Development Center - spoke about 'How to accomplish the next step in your career?'
The theme of the second career event, held in September 2016, was business entrepreneurship. Participants listened to talks by two entrepreneurs, both graduates of TAU's Faculty of the Arts: Ido Yablonka, Senior Board Member and Director of the Development Center at YAHOO! In Tel Aviv, formerly Founding CEO of ClarityRay; and Revital Hendler, Founder of AllJobs and Founding Partner of BreezoMeter. Ido and Revital shared their experiences, and described their creative paths in the entrepreneurial world, for the younger alumni's benefit.
The third event in this series will take place on 22 March 2017 with speakers Eyal Waldman, founder and CEO of Mellanox Technologies and a governor of Tel Aviv University, with his lecture "Starting Up Right"; And TAU School of Social Work alumna Yael Mehudar, an Organizational consultant and career management expert, with her lecture "Methods of career impact - thoughts about difficulties, connections, muscles and skills".
Details of future events will be posted in the Event Calendar on this website, as well the on the Facebook page of the Alumni Organization.
Successful Alumni from various faculties gathered to meet with students across the campus, fostering personal connections and sparking inspiration >
With Alon Arvatz – Co-Founder of IntSights, Adi Ofek – CEO of Mercedes Benz Research and Development, Omer Keilaf – CEO and Co-Founder of Innoviz Technologies, Karen Schwok – Owner and CEO of Lucid Investments, Tomer Blustein – Founder of Pink Park and Chief Business Development Officer at Bayit Bakfar >
The Tel Aviv University Alumni Organization, Headed by Sigalit Ben Hayoun, held a meeting with leaders in the high-tech industry and investment funds, where they discussed the role of academia in creating unicorns in the next decade >
The Tel Aviv University Alumni Organization, Headed by Sigalit Ben Hayoun, in collaboration with the TAU Career Development Center, held a session of short Ted lectures on career development and human resources as an opening ceremony for Tel Aviv University's annual Job Fair >
Itai Hermann has returned to the Tel Aviv University, where he studied, lecturing to TAU alumni on memory and learning abilities >
As part of the 2018 Job Fair events, the Tel Aviv University Alumni Organization continued to focus on its alumni's Career Development and held a TED-style conference in collaboration with the TAU Career Development Center >
Mr. Jack Ma, Lead Founder & Executive Chairman of the world's leading e-commerce company, Alibaba Group, visited Tel Aviv University as a recipient of an honorary doctorate >
The Tel Aviv University Alumni Organization, in collaboration with the TAU Career Development Center, invited students and alumni to a meeting that created a lot of buzz, with the alumnus Lior Schleien >
A fascinating meeting with Nadav Zafrir, Entrepreneur and Founder of the Team8 Start-Up >
A second international career event was held in November 2017 with the world's #1 expert on finding a purpose - Tim Kelly, an alumnus of MIT's Mathematics Department and formerly a lead algorithm developer at the Global Oracle Company, who became a strategic consultant, mentor and acclaimed speaker, the world's first coach for countries, author of the Best-selling book 'True Purpose' about the unique method he developed for finding purpose >
In June 2017, the alumni community gathered for its first international career event - an exclusive meeting with 'The Master of Charisma' Richard Greene - a charismatic lecturer, a leading commentator in the US and around the world and a leading public speaking coach who worked with International corporate presidents and top-notch politicians in the US and Europe >
The third event in this series will take place on 22 March 2017 with speakers Eyal Waldman, founder and CEO of Mellanox Technologies and a governor of Tel Aviv University, with his lecture "Starting Up Right" >
The theme of the second career event, held in September 2016, was business entrepreneurship. Participants listened to talks by two entrepreneurs, both graduates of TAU's Faculty of the Arts: Ido Yablonka and Revital Hendler >
