Workshop Reflection

The Career Development 101 seminar's explanation of the resources available at the Career Center was a useful and thorough overview. In my particular case, I look forward to using the mock interview sessions with feedback to prepare for graduate school interviews. The portion where we developed our "Elevator Speech" was also helpful, as we were able to get feedback from our peers. One activity that I think would be useful in the future would be to analyze existing/example CVs and resumes line by line, to specifically identify the elements that characterize a top tier CV.

The Writing Academic Articles and Getting Published seminar for the most part reviewed what I have learned from my lab mentors, but I appreciated the writing resources that the speaker recommended. I also did not know that UROP students can use the Sweetland Writing Center during the summer, so I am now planning my next appointment. The point about reading as much literature as possible in your given field was also well-taken, and I've thus begun to engage more deeply with the literature in my field as well as in adjacent research areas.

After these seminars I was inspired to overhaul my CV and borrow Writing Your Journal Article in 12 Weeks from one of my lab mates. As a result, my CV is now vastly improved and I have a much better grasp on how to plan my writing schedule for a current project.