Bridge the Gap Between Your Capacity and Learner Success

Description & learning objectives:
Communicating effectively goes beyond writing manuscripts, yet writing and other communication forms – posters, platform talks, and data visualization – are rarely taught formally. Here, you will be able to:

• learn communication frameworks to help you plan and set goals for your communications;
• implement best practices for writing manuscripts, creating posters, or planning presentations;
• create compelling images and figures that convey your ideas; and
• practice delivering platform presentations and answering questions.

Example titles:
"Convey your science with posters"
"What's your message? Frameworks to guide your speaking and writing"
"Scientific Proposal Writing: Co-working Workshop"

Description & learning objectives:
Hiring processes vary wildly by sector. From academia to industry, successfully applying for and landing a role in your chosen sector requires an understanding of these processes and how to navigate them. From searching for roles to the hiring process itself, in this series you will:

• identify the steps of a typical job search;
• learn how to define job search parameters based on skills, strengths, and values;
• identify strategies to organize and track a job search;
• identify comprehensive and niche search tools to find job postings, and how to access the “hidden job market;”
• understand how to implement filtering and notification tools to find relevant positions; and
• learn how to evaluate qualifications for identified positions. ​

Example titles:
"The Effective Job Search"
"Navigating Your Industry Job Search"
"Launching a Faculty Job Search"

Description & learning objectives:
Interviewing well takes careful crafting and practice of your message that will convince a hiring manager to extend an offer to you. It also takes an understanding of the interview process, knowing what to expect and how to navigate it. Here, you will be able to:

• understand the typical structure of an interview, and variations by sector;
• learn how to craft answers to interview questions using storytelling;
• evaluate an offer letter and know what is and is not negotiable; and
• learn how to plan for an effective negotiation conversation.

Sample titles:
"Interviewing is Storytelling"
"Negotiating Your Salary & Equity"
"Negotiating Your Faculty Startup Package"
"Ace the Interview"

Description & learning objectives:
Before entering the job market for the first time, or for any other time in the future, it is useful to step back and reflect on yourself, explore the available options, and identify alignments between your reflections and those explorations. If your goal is to pursue your job search with confidence and clarity, this series will help you:

• articulate the values that give your work meaning; 
• identify your skills, those you enjoy using, and those that may lead to burn-out;
• reflect on your key personal traits and ideal work environment; and
• learn strategies and processes to explore your career options.

Sample titles:
"Managing Your Career Transition"
"Informational Interviewing for Career Exploration"

Description & learning objectives:
You cannot manage time to end up with more of it, but you can learn how to utilize time effectively. A time utilization strategy can help you alleviate stress and anxiety. More importantly, it can help you know when to say no, allowing you to focus on your priorities. In this workshop, learners will:

• evaluate how they spend their time, both for personal and professional pursuits;
• discover when they're focused, and what distracts them;
• develop a system to triage information and how to process it; and
• create a system for organizing information and allocating time to act on it.

Sample titles:
"Time Management for Scientists"
"Set Your Priorities: Strategies to help you know when to say yes and no"