General Body Meeting: CV Panel and Workshop

Curious about how to optimize your CV or resume for agency work? Education and outreach? Post-doc positions? Academia?

Join us for the second general body meeting of the semester: Tuesday, October 13th from 12–1:30 pm in FRB 217!

During this lunchtime, we will have brief presentations from four members of our department, a question and answer period, and a large chunk of time for workshopping your CV or resume with fellow students and the panel. Snacks will be provided for all attendees. Our amazing panel includes the following individuals and an example question for each of them. Please brainstorm your own questions to ask during the session!

Cal DuBrock – Goddard Chair in Forestry and Environmental Resource Conservation with years of experience as a the director of wildlife management in the PA Game Commission.

• Are the skills desired by non-academic institutions fairly similar to those required by academia or can you suggest particular skills/experiences that are more desirable?

Laura Leites – Assistant Professor of Quantitative Forest Ecology

• How can you best set your resume apart and make it memorable among the deluge of applications?

Ebony Murrell – Post-doc in Kaye lab looking at changes in arthropod communities in response to agricultural practices.

• How much do you emphasize different components of your resume (e.g. teaching, lab experience, analysis skills, etc) when looking for a postdoc?