workshop reflection

The Career Development 101 workshop was a useful guide to other career resources on campus. I will definitely take advantage of the Alumni Center's free business cards, resume proofreading, etc. From the YouTube video, it was interesting to hear about the rules for following up with an employer after an interview. You don't want to appear overeager, but also not apathetic.
Similarly, the Writing Academic Articles and Getting Published workshop enlightened me of the Sweetland Writing Center's various services. During orientation we were bombarded with resources so the workshop was a nice refresher; especially now that these resources are more applicable in our lives.

Seminar Reflection

I believe that both the Career Development 101 and Writing Scholarly Articles and Getting Published seminars were helpful to me in some way or another. Networking has always been emphasized by UROP and it was nice to see it talked about much more in depth. One thing I had not considered before the seminar, however, was a thirty second speech about yourself and your goals. I think that was an important point to make for, though I've had interviews and experienced networking in some way or another,  I had never thought to condense my story into a quick easy to follow introduction to use as a part of networking. 

The Writing Scholarly Articles and Getting Published seminar really helped me understand how scholarly articles work in the first place. I found especially helpful to have articles explained in the most simplistic form. It solidified how I thought researchers present their findings but put it into an easy to understand form. Thinking about articles as a "conversation" is what has helped me the most, because that's honestly the easiest way to understand what is going on and why articles have so many citations. It takes a lot of the fear away to think about an article as a piece of conversation. 

Workshop Reflection

In the career development workshop I learned how to give my elevator speech and I learned about countless resources available to U of M students. For example, I learned that the Alumi Center gives out business cards. This is one resource I want to utilize, especially for career fairs. In the Academic Articles workshop I learned about good resources to use while writing. I learned about the Sweetland Writing Center and and several books to aid me in the writing process. Finally, I learned about the publishing process and how that works.

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.

Workshop Reflection

The Career Development 101 workshop was very eye opening as it made me realize some important things I need to work on before I become successful. Interviews are key to a job and I realized that if you don't prepare for these, my future job could be in jeopardy. I also learned the importance of networking. Everyone has a story and learning these stories is the key to making connections that can benefit you in the long term. I never thought about having my own business card so early, but I guess I need to make that free acquisition as soon as possible.

The Getting Published workshop showed me the difficulty of getting published. Before this summer I was disappointed that my research during the year had not been published. After this workshop, I realized that getting published so early in my research career is not something that I should focus on. I should just focus on learning and setting the path for future publications. Although the presenter was not focused in the sciences, I thought the things she talked about would apply to all fields of academics.

Workshop Reflection

I found that the Career Development 101 was quite helpful to me because it reminded me of the many resources that the university has to offer. For instance the Sweetland Writing Center that will help you go over your resume, they also help with papers and how to improve them. As well as the Alumni Center which gives you free business cards! I mean if you meet someone that would possibly have a job that you want, what better way for them to remember you by then your own personal business card?! Business cards are a good way to network as well, being that most people get great jobs based on how well they network. 
Also we talked about how to build a stronger resume. By tweaking a few things such as reading the job description and using that to make a better resume. Of all the workshops that we have had, and ones that I have gone to during the previous year, this is one of the most important ones.  If I were to change anything about the this presentation it would be to have someone from the Alumni center tell us about the other resources that they have. 

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Hello All, 


In the workshop Writing Academic Articles and Getting Published, I learned that getting publish takes hard work. Being able to write is the easy part. The hard part is choosing a topic. Every Journal has different requirements, and it will be hard to make your article meet every journal requirements. So before you start to pick a topic make sure the Journal you want to be publish in deals with that topic and you follow their requirements  I also learned patients is key. Doing the research for your article can take years, and getting accepted can take awhile also.