Career Resources
University of Utah Career Services provides many resources for the job search and career planning. Check out their online resources, including free access to CareerShift, an online service helping you find networking opportunities.
http://myidp.sciencecareers.org/
Science magazine’s “Individual Development Plan” is a free service aimed at helping scientists in career planning. Questionnaires about your skills, interests, and values will match you to careers options and provide links and resources for each career.
https://www.sciencemag.org/careers
Another Science magazine resource with articles on a variety of different science career paths and current science career trends
CADETS CAREER DEVELOPMENT TRAINING SERIES
OUR GOAL:
TO FOSTER OPPORTUNITIES FOR PHD STUDENTS AND RESEARCH TRAINEES TO DEVELOP SKILLS FOR SUCCESS THROUGHOUT THEIR PHDS AND FUTURE CAREERS.
2020-21 Events
Monday, November 9, 2020 12:00PM - 1:00 PM Via Zoom
Networking and Finding Opportunity in the Modern Age: Covid Edition
Speakers:
Clement Chow, PhD, Department of Human Genetics
Roshni Rao, PhD, Director of PHutures at John Hopkins
Chase Neumann, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Greg Ducker's Lab
Tuesday, February 2, 2021 12:00PM - 1:00PMVia Zoom
Mental Health: How to Deal
As graduate students and trainees, particularly in the science field, we are under extreme amounts of stress constantly for years on end - and that doesn't even include Covid-Era mental health struggles. The CaDeTs committee will be hosting a workshop to help students discuss mental health in these contexts, along with practical tips for moving forward with our careers and in life.
Four psych interns, Sheilagh Fox, Michael Azarani, CJ Park and Luke Huckaby from the University of Utah Counseling Center will provide a guided discussion targeting our demographic specifically on mental health issues and common feelings and concerns, especially those felt within the past year. They will also provide practical techniques/tips to help us manage stress, anxiety, depression, imposter syndrome, etc., during uncertain times as well as when things return to normal.
Wednesday, February 17, 2021 2:00PM - 3:00PM Via Zoom
Project Planning and Follow-through
Join us to hear speakers from different professional backgrounds, describing their idea of project planning and goal setting. The panel members for this session are Minna Roh-Johnson (Assistant Professor, Biochemistry), Kimberely Frizzell (Senior Project Manager PharmaDx at ARUP Laboratories), and Zachary Wilson (Postdoctoral Fellow, Hughes Lab, Dept. of Biochemistry). They will be sharing with us their thought process behind formulating and executing short- and long-term goals.
This will be followed by a Q&A session, so please bring your questions for the panelists.
Monday, March 15, 2021 1:00PM - 2:00PM Via Zoom
Scientific Figure Design
Led by Shraddha Nayak (Postdoctoral fellow) and Grace Hsu (Biomedical Visualization Specialist) from the Iwasa Lab (https://animationlab.utah.edu/). It will broadly address figure making strategies and include demo sessions on Illustrator.
In case you would like to follow along, please make sure you have Adobe Illustrator installed on your device- https://software.utah.edu/adobe.php
If you would like to learn a particular feature in Adobe Illustrator, please fill out this form and we will forward the responses to our speakers: https://redcap01.brisc.utah.edu/ccts/redcap/surveys/?s=M7X7TW8NTH
(Please note that your suggestions could range from “how to make a curly arrow” to “how to make a lipid bilayer”)
Thursday, April 8, 2021 12:00PM - 1:00PM Via Zoom
Science in Government: Science Diplomacy and Advising
Living in a pandemic has shown all of us the importance of science in government. This CaDeTs seminar will focus on learning more about what it is like to be involved in science diplomacy. We have three speakers that will participate in our seminar series. Dr. Dana Carroll received his Ph.D. from UC Berkley in Chemistry. He is a Distinguished Professor in the department of biochemistry, his research focused on genetic engineering and his interests now include the societal implications of genome editing. Dr. Jeffrey Kahn received his Ph.D. from Georgetown University in Philosophy/Bioethics. He is a professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Johns Hopkins University. He explores the intersection of ethics and science policy, such as public health, and ethical issues involving biomedical technologies. Dr. Kahn appeared in the Netflix series "Unnatural selection". Dr. Sydney Chamberlin received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin: Milwaukee in Physics. She works as a Climate Policy Associate at the Nature Conservancy (TNC). Her work focuses heavily on policy, but more from the outside looking in. She helps connect the dots between science and policy in California, and helps to drive science-based solutions for climate change.
Wednesday, May 5, 2021 3:00PM - 4:00PM Via Zoom
Science Opportunities for International, Undocumented, and Minority Students
Thank you to all our Speakers and Guests!
Series Organized by the CaDeTs Student Committee
ANNUAL CAREER DAY
Tuesday, October 27, 2020
FULL LISTING OF 2020 SPEAKERS & SCHEDULE
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Life After a PhD: 5 Lessons Learned While Designing my Career
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Non-Academic Panel Discussion
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Non-Academic Breakout Sessions:
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
ACADEMIC PANEL DISCUSSION
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
ACADEMIC BREAKOUT SESSIONS:
Baylor College of Medicine
CAREER RESOURCE LIBRARY
The Program Office has a collection of Career Resource books available to check out. Email bioscience@utah.edu to check for availabilty.
Books about careers in academia:
Bloomfield, Victor A., and Esam E. El-Fakahany. The Chicago Guide to Your Career in Science: A Toolkit for Students and Postdocs. Chicago: U of Chicago, 2008. Print.
Feibelman, Peter J. A Ph. D. Is Not Enough: A Guide to Survival in Science. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1993. Print.
Reis, Richard M. Tomorrow's Professor: Preparing for Academic Careers in Science and Engineering. New York: IEEE, 1997. Print.
Books about non-academia careers:
Kreeger, Karen Young. Guide to Nontraditional Careers in Science. Philadelphia, PA: Taylor & Francis, 1999. Print.
Robbins-Roth, Cynthia. Alternative Careers in Science: Leaving the Ivory Tower. San Diego: Academic, 1998. Print.
Sindermann, Carl J., and Thomas K. Sawyer. The Scientist as Consultant: Building New Career Opportunities. New York: Plenum, 1997. Print.
Books about career planning and professional development:
Fiske, Peter S., and Peter S. Fiske. Put Your Science to Work: The Take-charge Career Guide for Scientists. Washington, DC: American Geophysical Union, 2001. Print.
Rosen, Stephen, and Celia Paul. Career Renewal: Tools for Scientists and Technical Professionals. San Diego: Academic, 1998. Print.