Career & Tools

Check out these upcoming info sessions to learn about career opportunities with AXA Advisors, NAVAIR, Maxim Integrated Products, and Sony Interactive Entertainment.

By Erik Martinez, Graduate Career Peer
Monday, January 23rd, 2017 - 11:53am


If you are interested in worldwide finance, warfare technologies, engineering design or entertainment technology, then the following info sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about each. Meet with employers to lean about upcoming opportunities with their companies.

AXA Advisors

Date:
January 25, 2017
Time:
3-4 p.m.
Location:
UCen, Chumash Room

AXA Advisors is a leader in helping individuals and businesses address their financial goals through financial strategies, investment services and risk management. ​They have more than 50 branches across the country employing approximately 6,000 financial professionals. AXA Advisors is an equal-opportunity employer committed to a workplace that is diverse, inclusive, and merit-based.

They're looking for highly motivated, achievement-driven individuals who want the opportunity to establish and grow a financial services practice with the support and strength of one of the nation's leading financial services firms.

As an AXA Advisors financial professional, you'll be part of a recognized, respected company that offers:

  • High earnings potential and comprehensive benefits
  • Training, support, and hands-on management
  • Advancement and management opportunities

The work environment is fast-paced, energetic and enthusiastic. If you have an entrepreneurial mindset and are not looking for just a job, then ​AXA Advisors is the place for you.

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About AXA
AXA Advisors, LLC is a leading provider of financial services for consumers and businesses, working with clients to help them define and pursue their financial goals. It is a broker/dealer and the retail distribution channel for AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company (NY, NY), which provides life insurance and annuities for the financial services market.

Fields they look for: All Fields
Degree Level: Bachelors, Masters, Ph.D.s
Position Type: Full-Time
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NAVAIR

Date: January 25, 2017
Time: 4-5 p.m.
Location: UCen, Santa Barbara Mission Room

Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) serves the nation and the Navy by providing advanced warfare technologies. This team researches, designs, develops, and tests aeronautical and aeronautical-related systems. NAVAIR's products include state-of-the-art sensors, aircraft, weapons, training, launch, and recovery equipment & communications technologies.

Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (NAWCWD) supports the (NAVAIR) by providing the warfighter with absolute combat power through technologies that deliver dominant combat effects and matchless capabilities by:

  • Performing research, development, acquisition, test and evaluation; logistics, and in-service support for guided missiles, free-fall weapons, targets, support equipment, crew systems, and electronic warfare
  • Integrating weapons and avionics on tactical aircraft
  • Operating the Navy's western land and sea range T&E complex
  • Developing and applying new technology to ensure battle space dominance

Fields they look for: Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science
Degree Level
: Bachelors, Masters, Ph.D.s
Position type
: Full-Time
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Maxim Integrated Products, Inc
Date
: January 25, 2017
Time:
5:30-6:30 p.m.
Location
: UCen, Lobero Room

Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. are recruiting analog IC design engineers, applications engineers, and supply chain managers. Want to make a difference and be challenged every day? Then Maxim Integrated is for you.

Headquartered in the heart of Silicon Valley with over two billion dollars in sales and more than 7,000 employees, Maxim Integrated is a worldwide leader in designing, manufacturing, and selling high-performance semiconductor products. ​They invent highly integrated solutions that make technology seamless and channel ​their collective expertise to stretch the limits of technology, understand customers' needs, and help customers get to market faster. ​They also know that it's ​their people who make ​them a great company so they reward bold thinking, teamwork, personal growth, and community involvement.

Fields they look for: Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Majors related to business and management
Degree Level
: Bachelors, Masters, Ph.D.s
Position type
: Full-Time
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PlayStation

Date
: January 26, 2017
Time:
11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.
Location
: UCen, Flying A Studios Room

Recognized as a global leader in interactive and digital entertainment, Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is responsible for the PlayStation brand and family of products. PlayStation has delivered innovative products to market since the launch of the first PlayStation in Japan in 1994. The PlayStation family of products and services includes PlayStation 4, PlayStation VR, PlayStation Store, PlayStation Now and PlayStation Vue. SIE also oversees Worldwide Studios, which is responsible for developing exclusive, world-class games for PlayStation. Headquartered in San Mateo, California, SIE is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation and has regional headquarters in London and Tokyo.

Fields they look for: Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Art & Design

Degree Level: Bachelors, Masters, Ph.D.s

Position type: Internships, Full-Time