PhD Parade: Career Management Tactics with Dr. Erik Wong
Tuesday, November 6, 2018 – 5:00 to 7:30pm
Chittenden Hall, Room 110
The job market for PhDs has changed over the past several decades. In the current job market, PhDs find careers inside and outside of traditional faculty roles. Join PhD Career Services and the MSU BEST program to explore some of the careers available to PhDs. We continue the series on the evening of November 6 with Dr. Erik Wong. Doctor Wong will talk about his career consulting for government and private companies. Dinner will be provided.
Back to Basics Series: Cover letters and Resumes
Wednesday, November 7, 2018 – 12:00 to 1:30pm
Chittenden Hall, Room 110
The goal of this workshop is to answer all these questions and more. We will cover what you should know about yourself and your prospective employer and analyze examples of good and bad resumes & cover letters. The ultimate goal is to teach you some new methods for catching that prospective employer’s eye regardless if you are going on the academic or non-academic track.
Navigating the PhD
Friday, November 9, 2018, The Writing Center (300 Bessey Hall)
9:00am to 12:00pm: Managing Time and Academic Relationships
In this 3-hour workshop, plans for time management and working with others will be the main focus. Participants will create academic timelines for their PhD work at MSU and discuss technologies and habits that can help them stay on task. Participants will also discuss how to manage the stress that often pervades the life of PhD students and share strategies for overcoming writer’s block and procrastination. Additionally, discussion about selecting and working with committees will provide a space for sharing about and learning how to communicate with faculty members about participants’ research and writing. This workshop is better suited to students in the first 2 or 3 years of PhD work.
1:00pm to 4:00pm: Writing Processes and Strategies for Academic Writing
In this 3-hour workshop, the focus will be on writing processes and practices. The PhD programs at MSU require written comprehensive exams, dissertation proposals, and dissertations. In the workshop, participants will explore and share their current writing practices and be given practical writing and revision strategies. The latter half of the workshop will focus on developing a plan for approaching comprehensive exams or the dissertation (depending on the student’s current needs). Such a plan will help students develop goals, ask questions, and address writing strengths and limitations to successfully complete their degrees. This workshop is better suited for students who are working on their dissertations or preparing for comprehensive exams.
Lunch will be provided at this workshop. Registration is required.
Electronic Thesis/Dissertation Walk-In Help
Friday, November 9, 2018, 1:30pm to 3:30pm
220 Chittenden Hall
Students should come to the drop-in sessions with specific formatting questions regarding their documents. We will not be reviewing entire documents at these sessions. (Entire documents get reviewed by the Graduate School when the student submits to ProQuest.) We hope that these sessions will assist in reducing the number of corrections that we need to send to students when they submit their documents to ProQuest. Addition information at https://grad.msu.edu/events/thesis-and-dissertation-walk-help.
