"Leveling-Up" is an NXP designed Career Development & Exploration Workshop with the focused goals of providing guidance, support and early access to tools, tips and NXP resources that will assist under-represented engineering students in jump-starting their corporate careers. The workshop also enables NXP to connect early with top engineering recruits, market the NXP brand, and build relationships with Black and other under-represented communities on campus.

The core objectives of the "Leveling-Up" workshop are threefold:
1. Career Development - Educate and train on key transferrable skills to help participants be successful in the workenvironment and provide guidance to successfully transition into the workforce.
2. NXP Career Exploration - Educate participants on NXP and provide next level insight into our businesses, technologies, strategies, values, products and what it means to work at NXP.
3. Making the Connection - Provide unique access to key resources and job opportunities at NXP togive participants an advantage in their job search and hopefully become part of our NXP family. This includes participating in mock interviews withexperienced NXP hiring managers.
Led by Arizona BALT leads, Nicole Farrington and Vince McNeil, the workshop is the first of its kind offered by NXP. Execution of the workshop sessions is leveraging the talents of BALT team members from across NXP, as well as the support of other NXP employees and partners such as HR, Talent Acquisition, DE&I, recent New Graduate hires, and Hiring Managers looking for early career talent.

The workshop takes place on Friday afternoons from 2pm to 5pm Central Time, starting on Friday, October 14 and ending on Friday, November 11.