Foster Career Chats
A podcast by the career services team for undergrad and Specialized Master's students at the University of Washington's Foster School of Business. The team shares career advice and interviews industry professionals to help students build career skills.
Podcasting since 2019 • 28 episodes
Foster Career Chats
Latest Episodes
6.2 Shruti Panchal (MSBA '25) Talks about Her Approach to the Job Hunt
Shruti is a current MSBA student who's had some success getting interviews and job roles in the US. In this episode she shares her approach and some tips and tricks she's learned over the years for the job search.
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Season 6
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Episode 2
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17:09
6.1 Tim Kim (MSIS '22) Talks About His Background at Amazon and Microsoft
In this episode, Microsoft PM Tim Kim (MSIS '22) talks about his interesting and varied background in the military, Amazon, and Microsoft. He then shares very specific and helpful tips on how he talked with Microsoft recruiters to get his resum...
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Season 6
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Episode 1
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34:15
5.2 Aisiri Ravishankar (MSIS '23) Talks About Her Customer Engineer Role at Google
Aisiri Ravishankar (MSIS '23) discusses the job responsibilities of a customer engineer (also known as solutions engineer or solutions architect at other companies). She also describes how she got into Google and the role that networking played...
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Season 5
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Episode 2
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27:55
5.1 Career Discussion with Filiz Genca
After a long hiatus, Foster Career Chats is back with Jack interviewing Filiz Genca, a long time ex-Amazonian and former COO of CareRev. She discusses her accomplished career journey as well as other topics such as finding meaning in work and j...
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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47:00
4.8 De-mystifying contracting with Sammie Walsh
In this episode Jack interviews Sammie Walsh, a talent acquisition manager at the staffing agency Insight Global, to talk about contracting. Sammie describes why companies hire contractors, what the hiring process looks like, and the benefits o...
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Season 4
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Episode 8
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16:11