developing relationships with a wide range of people and organizations

Are you a PhD student thinking about a potential career outside of academia? Do you ever wonder how to find interesting opportunities relevant to your doctoral training? The prospect can be daunting at first. In this workshop, we’ll practice some key techniques to help you get started identifying and investigating meaningful career possibilities, including informational interviewing and assessing your transferable skills. A light lunch will be served.

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Bring your laptop and create or update your LinkedIn profile in one hour. We'll share strategies to get the most out of LinkedIn by building a dynamic profile and utilizing unique LinkedIn features to find connections. Note: this lab is for sophomores, juniors, seniors and master's students who are declared in the School of Humanities & Sciences.

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Bring your laptop and create or update your LinkedIn profile in one hour. We'll share strategies to get the most out of LinkedIn by building a dynamic profile and utilizing unique LinkedIn features to find connections. Note: this lab is for sophomores, juniors, seniors and master's students who are declared in the School of Humanities & Sciences.

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Leadership Dinners bring proven leaders from various arenas together with a small group of graduate students for dinner and informal discussion about what it means to be a leader and to lead organizations, movements, and people. 

As noted in the description of Negotiation Matters, mastery of negotiation is a life skill in that we all negotiate every day with colleagues, bosses, domestic partners, friends, clients and many others. All classes are a dynamic mix of theory, demonstration, skills exercises and roleplay practice intended to increase your confidence and effectiveness in any negotiation you undertake.

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During this Meetup, learn how to: - Ensure that your profile shows up (high) in the search results - Leverage LinkedIn to research career paths - Identify organizations where you have inside connections.

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