January MIT career events

[Dana Bresee Keeth]

Dear MIT Postdocs,

Reminder:
*Professional development events, MIT’s Independent Activities Period 
(IAP), January 5 - 30, 2015* -IAP provides MIT community members with 
many opportunities to participate in information and how-to sessions, 
forums, films, recitals, athletic endeavors, lectures,  and more. There 
are countless sessions relevant to postdocs’ career development, most at 
no cost. Check the IAP website <http://web.mit.edu/iap/> for listings 
and registration details.


For sessions offered by GECD, see below.

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To register for events or for more information log in to CareerBridge 
<https://www.myinterfase.com/mit/Account/LogOn?ReturnUrl=%2fmit%2fstudent%2f>. 


[Postdocs: See also MIT Services and Policies for Postdocs 
<http://gecd.mit.edu/career/postdoc> to schedule one on one appointments 
for career-related guidance and for more information. See also

the GECD Calendar of Events <http://gecd.mit.edu/calendar>.]

*Making the Most of Your Presentation, featuring Jean-luc Doumont      
[now underway in this large lecture hall]***

*Tuesday, January 20, 2:00-4:00pm, 10-250*

Strong oral presentation skills are a key to success for engineers, 
scientists, and other professionals, yet many speakers are at a loss to 
tackle the task. Systematic as they otherwise can be in their work, they 
go at it intuitively, sometimes haphazardly, with much good will but 
seldom good results. Based on Dr. Doumont'’s book Trees, maps, and 
theorems about “effective communication for rational minds,” this 
lecture proposes a systematic way to prepare and deliver presentations. 
Among others, it covers structure, slides, and delivery, as well as 
stage fright. <https://www.myinterfase.com/mit/student>

*Persuading Others, featuring Jean-luc Doumont*

*Thursday, January 22, 2:00-4:00pm, 10-250*

Persuasion skills are a critical asset for any career: We must convince 
employers to hire us, get the boss to let us start a project, or get 
coworkers to help out. Persuading others offers a rational approach to 
it: it covers how to use personal/organizational power, how to deploy 
tactics on four different human planes, and how to harness basic social 
influences to get other people to accede more easily to our requests. 
Advanced registration requested via CareerBridge: 
https://www.myinterfase.com/mit/student


*Converting Your CV to a Resume for Industry Tue Jan 29, 2015    
3:00-4:30pm    3-133*

If you are considering exploring Industry positions, you will need to 
have a resume that effectively positions you for this path. This 
workshop presented by Bob Dolan will discuss the process of converting 
your 4-6 page CV into a 2-page resume for industry, and creating a 
document that effectively targets the Hiring Manager.  Can your resume 
survive a 15 second scan and still get into the YES pile? Discussions 
will surround the strategies of effective messaging and how to be 
"on-point" with your written communication.  Actual MIT PhD/Postdoc 
resumes will be provided as handouts.

All GECD events are open to MIT undergraduates, graduate students, 
postdocs, and alumni.

Advanced registration requested via CareerBridge: 
https://www.myinterfase.com/mit/student

*Register NOW for the 2015 European Career Fair*

  The 19th European Career Fair will take place on Saturday, February 
21, 2015  9am to 4pm on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology (MIT). This event is open to college and university students 
and young professionals interested in working or studying in Europe.

Candidates attending the fair will have the opportunity to:

·Submit their resumes online prior to the Fair for employers to review.

·Network with over 100 European employers at the fair.

·Attend company information sessions and events held February 21 - 23, 2015.

·Interview with European employers (if selected) on February 22or 23, 2015.

Registration: Students and young professionals are strongly encouraged 
to register for the European Career Fair in advance at 
http://ecf.fairsey.com. Once registered, candidates will have access to 
more event details through the fair site and on-going email updates.
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