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Building Professional Relationships: The Power of Community, Step 5 of 5

January 25, 2012 | By Paula D. Wishart, Career Consultant, The Career Center

This week, I’m going to introduce the fifth step to building your professional community. If you missed the first steps, visit my posts: Step 1: Determine What You Want to Know; Step 2: Identify Contacts; Step 3: Prepare What You Want To Say; and Step 4: Make Contact – Again and Again! Step 5: Maintain the Relationship The basic way to maintain a relationship (and you know this) is to be kind and regular about your…

Building Professional Relationships: The Power of Community, Step 4 of 5

January 17, 2012 | By Paula D. Wishart, Career Consultant, The Career Center

This week, I’m going to introduce the fourth step to building your professional community. If you missed the first steps, visit my posts: Step 1: Determine What You Want to Know and Step 2: Identify Contacts. And Step 3: Prepare What You Want To Say Step 4: Make Contact – Again and Again! So, you find names, you prepare questions, you plan what you want to say—so make contact – and keep making contacts! Here…

Building Professional Relationships: The Power of Community, Step 3 of 5

January 12, 2012 | By Paula D. Wishart, Career Consultant, The Career Center

This week, I’m going to introduce the third step to building your professional community. If you missed the first steps, visit my posts: Step 1: Determine What You Want to Know and Step 2: Identify Contacts. Step 3: Prepare What You Want To Say Once you have decided to make contact, you should identify who you are, how you found his/her name and why you are contacting him/her. Again, you may ultimately want a job, but…

Building Professional Relationships: The Power of Community, Step 2 of 5

January 5, 2012 | By Paula D. Wishart, Career Consultant, The Career Center

Welcome back and Happy 2012! This week, I’m going to introduce the second step to building your professional community. If you missed the first step, visit my post: Step 1: Determining What You Want to Know. Step 2: Identify Contacts Who do you know? "I don’t know anyone" is not necessarily a helpful phrase to tell yourself—nor is it true. Instead, let’s look at who you do know: your family, friends, advisors, graduate school cohort, and…

Building Professional Relationships: The Power of Community, Step 1 of 5

December 21, 2011 | By Paula D. Wishart, Career Consultant, The Career Center

Take a moment to think about the words “power” and “community.” I often find graduate students meeting with me saying both of those elements are lacking from their life, and wondering why – often feeling like they can’t get traction in their professional goals. You will gain traction if you put the locus of control back where it should be – in yourself. Instead of saying my advisor doesn’t know anyone in my field of…

9 Things for Grad Students to Know From The Career Center

November 30, 2011 | By Amy Homkes-Hayes, Coordinator, The Career Center

Tips, Information, and Concepts to Digest as You Prepare for Your Professional Future As grad students you have the ripe, albeit sometimes confusing, opportunity for ample feedback on how to present your professional self to employers (be they academic or non). Below we have included some easy tips and big picture concepts to help guide your thinking on presenting a professional self to employers. Develop a Core Message - Sometimes it is overwhelming deciding what…

Time to Make a Plan

September 26, 2011 | By Pat McCune, Senior Project Manager, Rackham Graduate School

We’re moving into October and you may feel that you’ve finished with all the welcome-back-to-campus events and orientations. I suggest you think about it another way: your orientation should be ongoing as you move into different phases of your graduate education. While finding the right resources and opportunities on campus may seem daunting, it’s just a matter of finding the right guides. That might be the grad coordinator in your program or sometimes it’s just…

Preparing Future Faculty Conference: Getting Ready for an Academic Career

September 16, 2011 | By Natalie Bartolacci, Program Manager, Rackham Graduate School

Planning a career in academe? On Wednesday, October 5, Rackham Graduate School, The Career Center, and the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT) are hosting a half-day conference to help graduate students and postdocs prepare for the transition to faculty jobs. Highlights from the Preparing Future Faculty Conference agenda include what it means to pursue an academic career and how to prepare for the job search process. Even if you attended last year,…

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