SICSFLAGS

What. SICSFLAGS is the Seminar In Career Skills For Life After Graduate School, a professional development seminar.

Who. In Spring, 2020, SICSFLAGS was organized by Jim Magnuson. SICSFLAGS serves trainees in the SLAC, NBL and CNC-CT training programs at UConn. Anyone affiliated with these programs is welcome to drop in for sessions they are interested in.

Schedule

1/21: Organization

2/4: Women's Center -- meet at Student Union 428

2/11: Negotiation (academic) -- Tammie Spaulding, SLHS

Resources

2/18: NO CLASS

2/25: NO CLASS

3/3: CV workshop

- - Please draft a CV and send to Jim by 2/28; we will look at some great models from academic websites and review our drafts in class
    - See this helpful handout from U. Washington: Curriculum Vitae
  - If you prefer to do a non-academic resume, that's fine, too
  - Helpful links
    - https://www.thebalancecareers.com/academic-curriculum-vitae-example-2060817
    - Curriculum Vitae Tips and Samples - Graduate College (PDF from UIUC)
    - https://www.vitae.ac.uk/researcher-careers/pursuing-an-academic-career/how-to-write-an-academic-cv
    - Resumes & CVs -- from Cornell, includes links to samples at 4 other universities

3/10: Negotiation (non-academic) -- Anne Krook (by video link)

3/17: NO CLASS (spring break, please come to AttLis) -- sadly, AttLis has been postponed indefinitely

3/24: Telecommuting and general check in

(The originally scheduled seminar will be postponed til fall [Project management -- Karen Wadams, Associate Director, Strategy Realization Office, Merck & Company])

3/31: NO CLASS

4/7: TBA

4/14: TBA

4/21: NO CLASS

4/28: TBA