Career Services Office
GCCSO Update - Week of January 14, 2008
Topics in this issue:
- Graduate & Professional Student Etiquette Dinner
- Graduate College Professional Development Workshops
- Research Integrity: Whose Rights? Whose Responsibilities?
- Recent Articles about Careers and Job Search Strategies Posted
- Internships with Credit Suisse
- Research Positions with the Environmental Protection Agency
- Grants 101: Professional Grant Proposal Writing Workshop
- The Graduate College Career Services Office
1. Graduate & Professional Student Etiquette Dinner
Monday, February 18
6:00-8:00 p.m.
Alice Campbell Alumni Center
Enjoy a four-course meal while learning how to strengthen business relationships in special situations to give you a competitive edge. Reservations and a modest fee required. Dress is business casual. To register for the event, please visit www.uiaa.org/calendar/view_event.asp?is_search=y&sel_event=12932
2. GRADUATE COLLEGE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS
Don't miss all the great Graduate College Career Services professional development workshops this spring for all graduate students! Visit www.grad.uiuc.edu/mastercalendar for more information!
3. RESEARCH INTEGRITY: WHOSE RIGHTS? WHOSE RESPONSIBILITIES?
The Sixth Annual Symposium on Graduate Education
Monday, February 25, 2008
1:00-6:00 p.m.
Illini Union Rooms B & C
Registration now open at www.grad.uiuc.edu/events/symposium/registration.asp
Keynote address: "Who Wrote My Paper? R&R in Academia" by Dr. Drummond Rennie, Adjunct Professor of Medicine at University of California, San Francisco and Deputy Editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
This symposium is sponsored by the Graduate College and the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and is free to all University of Illinois graduate students, faculty, staff and alumni. For details visit www.grad.uiuc.edu/events/symposium/index.htm.
4. RECENT ARTICLES ABOUT CAREERS AND JOB SEARCH STRATEGIES
Applying Myself
Should I be advertising to potential employers that I eventually hope to shift from pure research to real-world problems?
http://chronicle.com/jobs/news/2008/01/2008011001c/careers.html
Taking Time for R&R
For young scholars, the "revise and resubmit" stage of publishing an article is as critical as the initial writing.
http://chronicle.com/jobs/news/2008/01/2008010801c/careers.html
The Truth Is, You Gave a Lousy Talk
A look at the many ways in which academics manage to undermine their own presentations.
http://chronicle.com/jobs/news/2007/12/2007122101c/careers.html
5. INTERNSHIPS WITH CREDIT SUISSE
Credit Suisse invites applications for summer and full-time programs. There are many opportunities available for Ph.D. and quantitative Master's Degree students that range from highly mathematical quantitative work to advanced technical work depending on your area of interest.
For more information or to apply, contact phd.recruiting@credit-suisse.com.
6. RESEARCH POSITIONS WITH THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA'S) National Exposure Research Laboratory (NERL) is accepting applications for approximately 8 federal, three-year post-doctoral research positions. NERL has opportunities for conducting high priority research that contributes to protecting human health and the environment. Our primary focus is research and development that leads to improved methods, measurements and models to assess and predict exposures of humans and ecosystems to harmful pollutants and other conditions in air, water, soil, and food. Candidates will engage in areas such as environmental monitoring and characterization; exposure reconstruction; computer modeling of the transport, transformation, and fate of pollutants in multiple media and at multiple scales; human and ecological exposure analysis; remote sensing applications; and landscape ecology. The interdisciplinary nature of our research affords numerous opportunities for collaboration with other researchers both inside and outside of EPA. Applicants must be United States citizens or permanent residents.
Open application period: November 2007 through January 31, 2008. For more information, go to www.epa.gov/nerl/postdoc/postdoc.html.
7. GRANTS 101: PROFESSIONAL GRANT PROPOSAL WRITING WORKSHOP
The Grant Institute
DePaul University
Conference Center
Chicago, Illinois
February 25 - 27, 2008
8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
The Grant Institute's Grants 101 course is an intensive and detailed introduction to the process, structure, and skill of professional proposal writing. This course is characterized by its ability to act as a thorough overview, introduction, and refresher at the same time. In this course, participants will learn the entire proposal writing process and complete the course with a solid understanding of not only the ideal proposal structure, but a holistic understanding of the essential factors, which determine whether or not a program gets funded. Through the completion of interactive exercises and activities, participants will complement expert lectures by putting proven techniques into practice. This course is designed for both the beginner looking for a thorough introduction and the intermediate looking for a refresher course that will strengthen their grant acquisition skills. This class, simply put, is designed to get results by creating professional grant proposal writers.
For more information and to register, go to www.thegrantinstitute.com/ or call (888) 824-4424.
8. THE GRADUATE COLLEGE CAREER SERVICES OFFICE
The Graduate College Career Services Office (GCCSO) assists University of Illinois graduate students with decision making and planning for career paths both within and beyond the academy. It is a centralized resource for graduate students from all disciplines, with services focused especially on the needs of graduate students in the humanities, the social sciences, the fine arts, and other areas in which students are not presently served by dedicated, discipline-based career services offices. GCCSO staff provides advising, special programs, resources, and referrals to help students with career choices and with the job search. For more information, see www.grad.uiuc.edu/careerservices/.
Career Services Office
The Graduate College
801 South Wright Street
204 Coble Hall, MC-322
Champaign, IL 61820-6210
Phone: (217) 333-4610
Fax: (217) 333-8019
GradCareerServices@uiuc.edu
