Setting Relationships up for Success in Graduate School and Life
Wednesday, November 14, 2018 – 6:00 to 8:00 pm
Chittenden Hall, Room 110
In this interactive workshop, we will be talking all about relationships, healthy relationships—the relationship you have with yourself, with your coworkers, with your advisor, with fellow students, and with your romantic partners. We will discuss the types of relationships that you want to cultivate with others and how you can put that into action. You will leave this workshop with tools to bring to your personal and professional life.
Write-In at the Graduate School
Friday, November 16, 2018 – 9:00 am to 1:00 pm
Chittenden Hall, Room 110
Are you working on a thesis or dissertation chapter, a proposal, or an article? Do you need a quiet place to write, or a space to collaborate with your peers on a piece of writing? Come to the Graduate School in Chittenden Hall for a Friday dedicated to writing. Participants must come with a specific writing goal and be prepared to write until noon! Graduate writing consultants from the Writing Center will be on hand to help with goal setting and accountability after you leave the session, and to help facilitate the formation of writing groups that can keep you moving toward your goal. Coffee and tea will be available while you write, and lunch will be provided at the end of the writing session. During lunch, we will debrief and set future writing goals.
Electronic Thesis/Dissertation Walk-In Help
Monday, November 19, 2018 – 10:30 am to 12:00 pm
Chittenden Hall, Room 220
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-0.
Job Interview Strategies
Tuesday, November 27, 2018 – 5:30 to 7:00 pm
Chittenden Hall, Room 110
This workshop will walk through common job interview process, questions, and etiquette for industry, government, and NGO careers. The workshop will describe the purpose of a job interview: what employers look for and what you should look for during the interview. In addition, the workshop will present ways to prepare for the job interview and provide time to practice common response methods such as STAR and PARK. Finally, the workshop will discuss common etiquette issues surrounding job interviews such as handshakes, follow up communication, and more.
PhD Parade: Non-governmental organizations
Friday, November 30, 2018 – 11:30am to 1:00 pm
Erickson Hall, 620 Farm Ln, Room 252, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824
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 November 30 with Dr. Patrick Doran. Doctor. Doran will talk about his career in non-governmental organizations. Lunch will be provided.