Workshop webinar: "Exploring Careers"

• When: 10:00-12:00 on October 5, 2016
• Where: Ctr Bldg, Seminar Room C209
• Whom: OIST Postdoctoral Scholars and Scientists are strongly encouraged to attend
• Instructors:
  • Dr. Kristen K. Mighty, Senior Program Coordinator for Office of Postdoctoral Affairs (OPA) at Northwestern University, USA
  • Dr. Mearah Quinn-Brauner, Assistant Director of Student Career Advising at Northwestern Career Advancement, USA
• Registration: is required. Please fill out the form below.
• Registration deadline: Monday, October 3

About the workshop:

In this workshop, participants will learn about strategies for exploring careers. The workshop leaders will guide participants through the process of identifying their skills and values and will share strategies for using these self-insights to explore a range of careers.

Objectives:

1. Participants will learn about all stages of the process of career explorations: assess, explore, decide, act.
2. Participants will learn strategies to assess their skills and values.
3. Participants will learn about how to use self-assessment to guide career exploration.
4. Participants will learn about strategies and resources for exploring careers.

Supplies:

• Motivated skills assessment handout
• Values assessment handout
• Informational interview handout
• Decision-making tool handout

Outline:

1. Introduction and icebreaker
2. Explanation of career exploration process: assess, explore, decide, act.
3. Skills identification brainstorming exercise
4. Participants fill out skills and values worksheets
5. Group discussion about how to use self-assessment to guide exploration
6. Introduction to strategy for exploring careers: informational interviewing.
7. Participants develop informational interview questions and email to send to informational interview subject.
8. Introduce decision-making tool.

About Instructors:

1. Kristen K. Mighty, PhD

   • is the Senior Program Coordinator for Office of Postdoctoral Affairs (OPA) at Northwestern University, USA. In this role, she manages the resources, support and programming that the OPA provides to the approximately 900 postdoctoral fellows, across the Evanston and Chicago campuses at Northwestern. The OPA is also involved in a wide range of activities for postdoctoral trainees, including recruitment, professional development services, institutional policy advisement, tracking and data management.

   • Dr. Mighty earned her Bachelor’s degree in Microbiology and Chemistry from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, PhD in Life Sciences and Masters in Public Health from Northwestern University.  She completed her postdoctoral training at Rush University Medical Center in the Immunology-Microbiology department prior to her role in the OPA.

2. Mearah Quinn-Brauner, PhD

   • is an Assistant Director of Student Career Advising at Northwestern Career Advancement, USA. In this role, Dr. Quinn-Brauner supports doctoral student from across the disciplines,  helping them connect their experience to professional opportunities both within and outside of academia. Before joining Northwestern University, Mearah worked with graduate students at the University of Chicago.

   • Dr. Quinn-Brauner  earned her Bachelor’s degree in English at Oberlin College and her Master’s and PhD in English Literature from the University of Pennsylvania. She has over 10 years of experience supporting graduate and undergraduate students in a variety of capacities, including as a teacher of writing, literature, and film; as a writing coach; and as a teaching mentor.

Registration is required. Please fill out the form below by Monday, October 3