Khushboo Vaidya talks about starting Boarding Pass for Success and helping students develop a career path through webinars and interviews

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What the HAT!?

What the HAT!? - Podcast

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6 days ago

We are three friends who met in our engineering undergraduate college catching up with our old friends and acquaintances where each guest has a different journey and different insights that you can learn from. This podcast is for everyone who wants to learn and grow whether it's deciding to start a company, doing a side hustle with your 9-to-5 job, going abroad for further studies, choosing a college for your Masters or MBA, living a sustainably fit life, running a family business, or being happy. We talk about a lot of things! Extraordinary insights from not so ordinary people.

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Khushboo Vaidya talks about starting Boarding Pass for Success and helping students develop a career path through webinars and interviews | 24

What the HAT!?

43 minutes 47 seconds

4 years ago

Khushboo Vaidya talks about starting Boarding Pass for Success and helping students develop a career path through webinars and interviews | 24

About the guest:

Khushboo Vaidya is a STEM Career Consultant, speaker, and founder of Boarding Pass For Success. Being an engineer herself, she takes initiatives to inspire students on how to develop an application based approach towards engineering and has conducted seminars for over 4000 students.

She also collaborates with researchers and engineers around the world with a profile of MIT, Stanford, Google, iRobot among others, and interviews them to provide quality guidance to students on her YouTube channel.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/khushboo-vaidya-pmp-80230949/

Boarding Pass For Success YouTube channel - Interviews and LIVE Webinars of engineers and researchers from diverse STEM fields like Robotics, Computational Neuroscience, Data Science, AI, and many more, through which students can get access to valuable insights regarding the field, job market, industry requirements, lessons learned from experience and much more.

Boarding Pass for Success YT: https://www.youtube.com/c/BoardingPassForSuccess/videos

Website: www.boardingpass.life

Key Insights in this Episode:

Why pursue a Master's in Canada? [02:00]

The Idea behind starting Boarding Pass for Success [17:40]

Why should you get advice directly from people working in the field? [27:00]

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Timestamps:

[02:00] Why Masters in Canada?

[05:35] Masters Program at the University of Waterloo

[09:26] Program length and break up of the course

[10:50] Time at Blackberry

[12:45] Layoff and starting a new job at Brock Solutions

[14:15] Brock Solutions - Software Testing Specialist

[17:40] Starting Boarding Pass for Success

[27:00] Get career advice from people who are working in that field

[28:45] STEM Career Counselling - most important lessons (initially everyone is clueless, whatever you do in college will help you in future, transferable skills are key, understand the expectations)

[33:05] Canada vs. the USA - Education

[38:45] Boarding Pass Consulting Service - Collaborators

[39:20] Top 3

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