Harvard's Office of Career Services

GSAS: Professional Development for Life Scientists 2008



Poster of Academic Job Search Info

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

FOR LIFE SCIENTISTS

The Professional Development for Life Scientists Series is coordinated by the Office of Career Services, Harvard Integrated Life Sciences, the Division of Medical Sciences, and the Office for Postdoctoral Affairs.

FEBRUARY

CVs FOR SCIENTISTS: ACADEMIA AND INDUSTRY
Speaker: Laura Malisheski, PhD, Office of Career Services
Tuesday, February 5
12:00 - 1:30 pm
Longwood Medical Area, MEC 227

DROP-IN RESUME, CV, AND COVER LETTER REVIEWS

Speakers:
GSAS counselors and post-doctoral advisors
Wednesday, February 13
10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Longwood Medical Area, DMS Lounge/MEC 442

LEARNING SUCCESSFUL NEGOTIATION TECHNIQUES
Speaker: Linda Wilcox, HMS ombudsperson
Wednesday, February 27
5:00 - 6:30 pm
Longwood Medical Area, MEC 227

MARCH

LANDING A POST-DOC: GATEWAY TO YOUR ACADEMIC CAREER
Speakers: Fred Winston, professor of genetics; Shannon Turley, assistant professor of pathology
Tuesday, March 11
5:15 - 6:45 pm
Longwood Medical Area, MEC 209

APRIL

IMPORTANT THINGS TO CONSIDER WHEN CHOOSING A LAB
Speakers: Four upper-level graduate students in DMS
Wednesday, April 9
12:00 - 1:00 pm
Longwood Medical Area, Goldenson 122

MAY

THE POWER OF PROCRASTINATION
Speaker: Jorge Cham, creator of the popular comic strip "Piled Higher and Deeper"
Thursday, May 8
5:30 - 7:30 pm
Longwood Medical Area, MEC Amphitheatre