Postdoc Appreciation Week 2013
In today's competitive environment, postdocs need additional tools and strategies to achieve career success. One way is to take ideas taught in business school. For example, as scientists, you have two products, you and your research. Your goal is to "sell" yourself to potential recruiters and employers, or "sell" your research to potential funding agencies, community, or colleagues. How do you do that? One idea is to have a professional LinkedIn profile. LinkedIn is the go-to site for many recuiters and employers. Many people are approached everyday on LinkedIn and offered positions.
Another idea is to have a professional website that contains current research information, publications and activities. Many private funding agencies search keywords to find out who is doing research in their target areas. A professional looking website should communicate that you are on the cutting edge of research and that you are capable of carrying out the research.
Today’s technology allows easy marketing and sharing of your brand. For UC San Diego’s Postdoc Appreciation Week 2013, the Office of Postdoctoral and Visiting Scholar Affairs has organized a series of events to help you as a postdoc establish your brand, communicate your research, develop your online presence and cultivate relationships to help you transition to the next step of your career.
Friday, September 13th
Inaugural Postdoc Research Symposium
WHEN: 9:00am-11:30am
WHERE: Price Center Ballrooms A&B
The Postdoc Research Symposium, organized by the Postdoctoral Association (PDA), will have morning poster sessions and speaker competition.
Appreciation Luncheon and Award Reception
WHEN: 12:00pm-2:00pm
WHERE: Price Center Ballrooms A
Keynote Speaker, Professor Todd Coleman will share his experiences as a postdoc, transitioning to faculty and maximizing opportunities for career success. Professor Coleman was selected as one of San Diego Magazine's 2013 People to Watch.
Following the lunch and keynote, Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Postdoctoral Scholar Mentoring, Outstanding Postdoctoral Scholar, and the Research Symposium Best Research Posters, Best Research Talk and Travel awards will be presented.
For more information about the Research Symposium, contact pdaresearch@ucsd.edu.
For information about the luncheon and award ceremony, contact Jennifer Oh at jmoh@ucsd.edu
RSVP is required for the luncheon, https://postdoclunch2013.eventbrite.com
9:00 – 9:45 – Research Symposium: Poster Session 1
9:45 - 10:45 – Research Symposium: Oral Presentations
10:45 – 11:30 – Research Symposium: Poster Session 2
12:00 - Appreciation Lunch begins
12:15 – 1:00 – Todd Coleman: Keynote Speaker
1:00 – 2:00 – Awards Ceremony
Managing Your Career in Today's World: Connecting for Success
WHEN: 12:00-1:00pm
WHERE: Leichtag room 107
Kathleen Robinson, Vice President and Director of Professional Services at Lee Hecht Harrison, is a career counselor and an executive coach, and she will present a workshop on career management.
To RSVP for this event, please visit https://managingcareerrobinson.eventbrite.com
Marc Kuchner, author and NASA astrophysicist, will present two workshops based on his acclaimed book,
Marketing for Scientists: How to Shine in Tough Times. A recent Amazon.com review stated, "I'm a professor of physics at a major research university. My colleagues and I tend to consider marketing or salesmanship at best a necessary evils. This book takes a more positive and inclusive attitude toward marketing, casting it as being about relationship-building, and I have to say I'm convinced! The book helps us understand that everything we do has a customer (fellow scientists, neighbors or family, the public, Congress) and that we need to consider each customer's needs as we interact with him or her. Much of the first half of the book felt familiar and right to me -- I've long tried to convey these ideas to my proteges, but I don't do it systematically, and Marketing for Scientists makes the connections clearer than I have ever articulated. The second half of the book stretched my thinking more, and I expect it to be useful to me for years to come. The book's value is so clear to me that I bought copies for all of my 15 group members, and I plan to have us discuss and debate its ideas at group meetings in the coming month."
Marketing for Scientists will discuss how to apply the business practice of marketing to science and how you can be competitive in this tough economic times.
WHEN: 9:00-10:30am
WHERE: MET 141/143
Light refreshments will be served.
To RSVP for this event, please visit https://modernmarketkuchner.eventbrite.com
Managing Your Online Presence
WHEN: 12:00-1:30pm
WHERE: MET 141/143
Mark Kuchner’s second workshop will focus managing your online presence. He will discuss the importance of professional looking websites, how to use social media to your advantage, and how to get the competitive edge. Participants are encouraged to bring their computers, smartphones and tablets.
Light refreshments will be served.
To RSVP for this event, please visit https://internetmarketkuchner.eventbrite.com
Postdoc Health and Wellness Learn at Lunch series: Stress Management
WHEN: 12:00-1:00pm
WHERE: Student Services Center room 400
Presented by the Faculty and Staff Assistance Program at UC San Diego, this is a new program designed to help postdocs have a healthy and productive time while in training. There will be a new topic discussed every month. This month’s topic will be “How to manage stress during times of transition”.
For more information, contact Merritt Bradford at merritt@ucsd.edu
LinkedIn Photobooth
WHEN: 10:00am-1:00pm
WHERE: Student Services Center room 400
Alan Decker, professional photographer whose work includes the Faculty of the Year portraits at UC San Diego, will be taking headshots for postdocs to use on their Linkedin profile, conference programs, website, and award announcements. Normal sitting fee is $150/person; however, Office of Postdoctoral and Visiting Scholar Affairs will subsidize the cost and offer this opportunity to postdocs for $10/person. RSVP and payment (either cash or check made out to “UC Regents” ) are required.
RSVP is required for this event, https://linkedinphotobooth2013.eventbrite.com
To see some of Alan Decker’s work, visit: http://www.alandeckerphoto.com/
Postdoctoral Association (PDA) Happy Hour
WHEN: 4:00-6:00pm
WHERE: Student Center, Porter's Pub
Meet other UC San Diego postdocs for networking and fun!
For more information, contact the PDA at pdaadmin@ucsd.edu
