Professional Development
2024 Dietrich School Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition
Moving Forward Celebration
At this closing event in the “Shattering the Glass Ceiling: Revealing the Hidden Curriculum” workshp series, the women who spoke at our workshops will be available to answer questions, engage in casual discussions, and network with participants. Also, there will gifts for everyone who attended a workshop, plus a chance to win door prizes. Registration Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/moving-forward-celebration-tickets-250354927327?aff=odcleoeventsincollection.
Establishing Work Boundaries
In Establishing Work Boundaries, panelists will draw from their own experiences and discuss how they have maintained mental health throughout stressful life stages, such as graduate school. Panelists will also discuss the links between psychological and physical wellness that make it imperative to foster each one while under stress. Participants will then complete a workshop that encourages them to prioritize the activities in their daily lives that promote both mental and physical wellness.
Developing and Promoting Your Personal Brand
This workshop will focus on professional communication, networking, and personal branding, and how to utilize these three areas to be successful in a competitive job market. Following the presentation by the speakers, students will participate in breakout groups created to offer networking opportunities across different professional interests, discuss and practice skills that are most essential for each.
Strategies for Time Management
In the Strategies for Time Management workshop, attendees will learn how to identify your most productive time of the workday, setting and achieving realistic goals for project milestones, the different between a project and a task, strategies for carving out time for specific projects and reclaiming time spent on administrative tasks like emails. Students will then have the opportunity to make a project timeline for something are currently working on and discuss their plans with one another to get additional ideas for their own project.
Foundations of Emotional Wellbeing
This workshop will be led by Pittsburgh executive coach Monique De Monaco. She will give a presentation on strengthening your emotional well-being, which is the foundation of everything else you need to be successful at graduate school and beyond. After Monique’s presentation, we will do an exercise to help you identify the factors in your life that may be impeding your success and how to change that narrative to give you the emotional strength to be a leader in your field.
Translating Your Current Academic Skills to Future Careers
Targeted specifically for graduate students, medical students and postdocs, this webinar will discuss skills gained during academic training that are valued by both the public and private sectors for a variety of career options.
Introduction to Professional Development Seminar for Doctoral Students
Sponsoring Entity: Center for Doctoral and Postdoctoral Career Development (DPCD)
Two sessions available - see events calendar for other option on February 19th. Select which session to attend.
Introduction to Professional Development Seminar for Doctoral Students
Sponsoring Entity: Center for Doctoral and Postdoctoral Career Development (DPCD)
Two sessions available - see events calendar for other option on February 25th. Select which session to attend.