Workshop Refelction

The Career Development 101 seminar taught me the importance of networking as well as many useful approaches to networking. I particularly liked the video that discussed a number of ways to network efficiently when trying to land a job. This will hopefully be very useful in my future endeavors. I also found the elevator pitch to be very useful. It had not crossed my mind all year to prepare an elevator pitch, and now that I am older and have a little bit more experience in my field, I hope to find these pitches to be very useful (particularly at career fairs). Networking is key to promoting yourself and moving up in the industry.

The Writing Academic Articles and Getting Published Seminar was very helpful with getting insight on how to write, submit, and publish articles as well as what goes into an article, what kind of journals we should be submitting to, how much time it takes after submission, etc... I did not realize just how time consuming and difficult it was to be published. Our speaker was very informative and engaging. She has encouraged me, and I'm sure a number of other students, to take more of an interest in reading articles that pertain to my field. It's not that I was not willing to read them before, it's just that it never really crossed my mind. I hope that this seminar will also help me in writing my abstract and presentation for UROP.