Graduate Student Event Spotlights, April 6 – 19, 2021
Graduate Student Event Spotlights:
Navigating and Succeeding in a Job Search as an LGBTQ+ Person
Tuesday, April 6, 5-6:30PM
A person’s sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression impacts our lives in many ways, including our careers. During a job search or the career exploration process, LGBTQ+ individuals can have many different questions about how our life experiences can impact or be impacted by a job search. During this interactive workshop we will discuss self-care during a job search, managing one’s job search documents, navigating potential job search pitfalls, and how to interact well with prospective employers.
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Putting the Humanities PhD to Work: A Candid Conversation with Katina Rogers
Friday, April 9th 12-1PM
Graduate Student Registration here
Faculty/Staff Registration here
In her new book, Putting the Humanities PhD to Work (Duke University Press, 2020), Katina Rogers invites readers to build a university that is truly worth fighting for by thinking more expansively about what constitutes scholarly success—not only to support individual career pathways, but also to work toward greater equity and inclusion in the academy. This book grounds practical career advice in a nuanced consideration of the academic workforce, diversity and inclusion, new modes of scholarly communication, and humanities education as a public good. It posits that career-related initiatives in graduate programs must engage with the pressing issues of graduate education today, such as admissions practices, scholarly reward structures, equity and inclusion, and academic labor practices—especially the increasing reliance on contingent labor. Join faculty and graduate students for this candid conversation about the future of the humanities and ways we can reimagine and build a different future together
Diversify Your Skillset: Using UT Resources Strategically
Wednesday, April 14th at 5pm-6:30PM
This virtual conversation is designed to help graduate students in the humanities identify UT resources they might leverage toward further professional development. What opportunities does UT offer that can help graduate students build professional relationships, develop additional marketable skills, and prepare for a career after graduate school? In this workshop, build a network of peer support with emerging professionals from disciplines across the university and learn what current graduate students in the humanities are doing to diversify their skillsets.
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Understanding University Policy & Developing Self-Advocacy
Wednesday April 14, 12-1:15PM
A workshop focused on developing skills for navigating a university. This workshop will be tailored to UT. Students will be taught how to decipher university jargon,
how to look for university policies that apply to them, and how to self-advocate when faced with challenges in higher education.
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Sustainability on Tap (Careers Edition!)
Thursday, April 15, 5-6:30PM
We’re looking for grad student presenters! Showcase your sustainability or environmental research, project, or passion to your peers in 3 easy minutes. All you need is 5 PowerPoint slides, an environmental/social sustainability angle, and a sense of fun. Any and all presentation ideas are welcome! Priority given to submissions received by April 4. Submit your idea to https://bit.ly/SoT_Present_Sp21 . This Spring’s Sustainability on Tap will be limited to approximately 8 presenters who will be selected to best showcase the diversity of sustainability and environmental fields.
In this special Careers Edition of Sustainability on Tap, UT advanced-degree alumni will also be sharing their career journeys. There will be a short networking session with the alumni after the presentations. Get a head start and RSVP now. Part of Earth Month, this event is co-hosted by the Office of Sustainability and Texas Career Engagement.
Alumni@Work Career Conversations
Meet individually or in small groups with advanced degree alumni who are working in industry, government, nonprofit, business and academia.
Kirt Smith, Foreign Affairs Research Assistant at Congressional Research Service
Thursday, April 15, 4:30-5PM
Learn more about Kirt here
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Shannon Iverson, Design Research Lead at AstraZeneca
Thursday, April 15, 4:30-5PM
Learn more about Shannon here
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Melanie Magidow, Founder of Marhaba Language Expertise
Friday, April 16, 1-1:30PM
Learn more about Melanie here
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Rebecca Onion, Staff Write for Slate.com
Monday, April 19, 11:30-12PM
Learn more about Rebecca here
Register here