AMITA Women Networking and Mentoring
AMITA, Association of MIT Alumnae
| Jan/27 | Wed | 07:00PM-09:00PM | 32-401 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 100 participants
The Association of MIT Alumnae (AMITA) invites undergraduate and graduate students to an informal night of networking with MIT alumnae in the R&D Commons Area 4th floor of building 32. We'll talk about life choices and share our experiences in selecting grad schools and integrating family life and career. Pizza will be provided. Please pre-register* so we'll have enough food. Student registration is FREE.
Sponsor(s): Alumni Association
Contact: Elena Byrne, W98-206C, 617 252-1143, EBYRNE@MIT.EDU
Assertiveness Workshop for Women
Holly Sweet, PhD, licensed psychologist
| Jan/12 | Tue | 04:00PM-05:30PM | 36-112 |
| Jan/19 | Tue | 04:00PM-05:30PM | 36-112 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/06
Limited to 25 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
In this workshop, we will explore different styles of communication with
others, including passive, passive-aggressive, assertive and aggressive
behaviors. Through role playing, personal inventories, and group
discussion, we will examine what gets in our way of being assertive and
what helps us be more assertive in both personal and professional relationships.
Limited to 25 participants. Sign up link: http://goo.gl/forms/tUf9i6jg9t.
There will be a waiting list.
Priority will be given to women undergraduate in Course 6.
Sponsor(s): Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Contact: Sheena Nie, HKN Outreach, xnie@mit.edu
Branding Yourself - Effective Communication Skills
| Jan/20 | Wed | 02:00PM-03:30PM | 4-231 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Communication goes beyond verbal skills which are important to the success of any job seeker. To brand yourself as a professional, you must deliver a consistent message in a Written, Verbal, and Virtual manner. As students and postdocs begin to look for positions in engineering and science, both in academia and industry, they must be aware of how their nonverbal communication skills impact their possibility of finding employment opportunities. Learning how to maximize the use of one's verbal and nonverbal communication skills is a powerful tool to help one achieve professional success, and a critical component for the future. Advanced registration requested via CareerBridge.
Sponsor(s): Global Education and Career Development
Contact: Nyasha Toyloy, E39-305, 617 715-5329, NYTOYLOY@MIT.EDU
Careers in Law for STEM Students: A Panel
GECD
| Jan/14 | Thu | 06:00PM-07:30PM | 3-333 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Come for the pizza, stay for the career advice. At this panel, you will learn about career opportunities at the intersection of technology and law and the various career paths that panelists have taken to get from their STEM backgrounds into law. Panelists include patent lawyers, MIT alum, and other professionals who use their STEM expertise in the field of law. Advanced registration requested via CareerBridge.
Sponsor(s): Global Education and Career Development
Contact: Nyasha Toyloy, E39-305, 617 715-5329, NYTOYLOY@MIT.EDU
Case Interview Workshop with Accenture
| Jan/15 | Fri | 01:00PM-02:30PM | 4-163 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 60 participants
The overall goal of all case interviews is to assess a candidate’s analytical problem solving skills. This is an integral part of evaluating applicants for roles in consulting. Accenture invites MIT students to join our Case Interview Workshop for an opportunity to learn first-hand from Accenture executives and interviewers about how to effectively answer a case interview question. Advanced registration requested via CareerBridge.
Sponsor(s): Global Education and Career Development
Contact: Nyasha Toyloy, E39-305, 617 715-5329, NYTOYLOY@MIT.EDU
CME Drop In Hours
| Jan/12 | Tue | 01:00PM-03:00PM | E39-362 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
CME Drop In Hours:
Date: Tuesday, January 12, 2016
Time: 1pm-3pm
Location: E39-362
Sponsor(s): Global Education and Career Development
Contact: Global Education, studyabroad@mit.edu
Communicating Science to Nonscientists, featuring Jean-luc Doumont
| Jan/21 | Thu | 02:00PM-04:00PM | 10-250 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
GECD and ODGE are thrilled to welcome back Jean-luc Doumont for his annual IAP lectures on excellence in communication --
Scientists are often perceived as living in their own impenetrable world. Jean-luc discusses the challenges of communicating with a lay audience, and presents effective strategies for overcoming the challenges. Most of these strategies apply to communicating to scientists as well. They are universal good ideas - heeding the advice becomes more critical when the audience is less specialized. Advanced registration requested CareerBridge.
Sponsor(s): Global Education and Career Development
Contact: Nyasha Toyloy, E39-305, 617 715-5329, NYTOYLOY@MIT.EDU
Convert Your CV into a 2-Page Resume for Industry
| Jan/22 | Fri | 01:00PM-02:30PM | 4-149 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
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 successful MIT PhD/Postdoc resumes will be provided as handouts. Advanced registration requested via CareerBridge.
Sponsor(s): Global Education and Career Development
Contact: Nyasha Toyloy, E39-305, 617 715-5329, NYTOYLOY@MIT.EDU
Creating a Successful Career--Strategies, Techniques, and the Big Mistakes You're Going to Make
Mark Herschberg 95, MNG 97, 05, CTO at Madison Logic
| Jan/27 | Wed | 07:00PM-08:00PM | 4-270 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Upon graduating from MIT you will begin a career. MIT has provided you with countless facts and formulas to help you with your job, but what have you learned to help you with your career? This talk gives you structure to think through your career and help you maximize both your income and happiness. It will teach you how to answer questions such as: How do you know which job is right? Where will you be in 20 years? What to ask for in job negotiations? The talk also covers the common job mistakes and how to avoid them. Register today! Walk-ins welcome.
MARK HERSCHBERG Educated at MIT (with degrees in physics, EE/CS, and a masters in cryptography) Mark has spent his career launching and fixing new ventures at startups, Fortune 100s, and academia. Mark has worked at and consulted to number startups typically taking on roles in general management, operations, and technology. He has been involved from inception and fundraising through growth and sale of the company. These startup companies have included a wireless application platform, online advertising, OLAP, and new language development. Mark was instrumental in launching ServiceLive.com Sears online home services labor market; he also helped fix NBCs online video marketplace (now Hulu.com). In academia, he spent a year at HBS working with two finance professors to create the upTick system now used to teach finance at many of the top business schools and at MIT helped launched UPOP at which he's taught the past 15 years.
Sponsor(s): Alumni Association
Contact: Elena Byrne, W98-206C, 617 252-1143, EBYRNE@MIT.EDU
Crushing Your Coding Interview
Karen Sittig
| Jan/06 | Wed | 07:00PM-09:00PM | 4-237 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
This class will walk you through all the tips and tricks to best prepare you for your next coding interview. We'll discuss what to expect in your coding interview, what your interviewer is looking for, and advice for putting your best foot forward. We will also walk through several example interview questions and discuss common mistakes (coding and otherwise).
The presentation will last between 1-1.5 hours with the remaining time for 1:1 resume review.
Karen and Laney are both software engineers at Facebook Boston and have jointly interviewed hundreds of student and industry candidates.
Sponsor(s): Student Information Processing Board
Contact: Karen Sittig, Laney Kuenzel, sipb-iap16-interview@mit.edu
Departmental Exploration (DEX)
Shauna Peterson, Staff Associate, Amgen Scholars, Meghan Kenney, Assistant Dean, New Student Programming
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
First-year students, have you picked your passion yet? Don't miss this series of departmental exploration (DEX) events sponsored by the Office of Undergraduate Advising and Academic Programming.
DEX will be a structured time at the end of IAP for academic discovery that will allow students to experience what it’s like to be an undergrad in various department. Events include: student panels, open houses and showcases of projects and research. Each day there will be at least one topic panel featuring students and faculty from departments listed who will speak about their in and out of class experiences studying and teaching in this department.
Events will take place January 25, 26, 27 & 28. No sign up is necessary, just come to whatever sessions you are most interested in!
January 25: Technological Engineering (Courses 1, 2, 3, 6, 16, 22)
January 26: Chemistry & Chemical Engineering; Biology & Biological Engineering (Courses 3, 5, 6, 6-7, 7, 9, 10, 10B)
January 27: Economics & Management, Design & Infrastructure, Politics & Policy (Courses 1, 2, 4, 10, 14, 15, 17, 22)
January 28: Math, Physics, Computer Science & Media Studies (Courses 6, 6-3, 8, 18, 22, CMS)
Sponsor(s): Office of Undergrad. Advising/Academic Programming
Contact: Shauna Peterson, 7-104, 617-324-8128, scpeter@mit.edu
| Jan/25 | Mon | 01:00PM-02:00PM | Bush Room (10-105) |
Courses 1, 2, 3, 16, 22
Shauna Peterson - Staff Associate, Amgen Scholars
| Jan/25 | Mon | 02:00PM-04:00PM | 1-143 |
Sponsored by Course 1
Session Leaders TBD
| Jan/25 | Mon | 03:00PM-04:00PM | 54-1827 |
Sponsored by Course 12
Session Leaders TBD
| Jan/25 | Mon | 04:00PM-05:00PM | 54-1311 |
Sponsored by Course 12
Session Leaders TBD
| Jan/25 | Mon | 05:30PM-06:30PM | 7-429 |
Session Description TBD
Session Leaders TBD
| Jan/26 | Tue | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 1-131 |
Traveling Research Environment Experience Presentation
Sponsored by Course 1
Session Leaders TBD
| Jan/26 | Tue | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 5-233 |
Courses 3, 5, EAPS
Shauna Peterson - Staff Associate, Amgen Scholars
| Jan/26 | Tue | 02:00PM-03:00PM | 66-201 |
Sponsored by Course 10
Session Leaders TBD
| Jan/26 | Tue | 03:00PM-04:00PM | E25-630 |
Lab Tour: How Stalagmites and Lake Deposits Document Climate Change
Sponsored by Course 12
Session Leaders TBD
| Jan/26 | Tue | 03:00PM-04:00PM | Bush Room (10-105) |
Course 7, EAPS, BCS
Shauna Peterson - Staff Associate, Amgen Scholars
| Jan/26 | Tue | 04:00PM-05:00PM | E25-650B |
Lab Tour: Using Geobiology to Study Life on Early Earth
Sponsored by Course 12
Session Leaders TBD
| Jan/26 | Tue | 04:00PM-05:00PM | Entrance to Bld. 46 |
Sponsored by Course 9
Session Leaders TBD
| Jan/27 | Wed | 10:00AM-11:00AM | 54-915 |
From MIT to Pluto: EAPS explores the outer reaches of our solar system
Sponsored by Course 12
Session Leaders TBD
| Jan/27 | Wed | 11:00AM-12:00PM | Bush Room (10-105) |
Course 4, 22
Shauna Peterson - Staff Associate, Amgen Scholars
| Jan/27 | Wed | 01:00PM-02:00PM | Bush Room (10-105) |
Course 14
Shauna Peterson - Staff Associate, Amgen Scholars
| Jan/27 | Wed | 02:00PM-03:00PM | Bush Room (10-105) |
Course 15
Shauna Peterson - Staff Associate, Amgen Scholars
| Jan/27 | Wed | 03:00PM-04:00PM | Bush Room (10-105) |
US and International Politics, Public Policy, Law and Social Science Statistics Panel
Course 17
Shauna Peterson - Staff Associate, Amgen Scholars
| Jan/27 | Wed | 03:00PM-04:00PM | 1-131 |
Sponsored by Course 1
Session Leaders TBD
| Jan/28 | Thu | 01:00PM-02:00PM | Bush Room (10-105) |
Courses 6, EAPS
Shauna Peterson - Staff Associate, Amgen Scholars
| Jan/28 | Thu | 04:00PM-05:00PM | 54-915 |
Sponsored by Course 12
Session Leaders TBD
(CANCELED) Effective Presentation Skills
| Jan/21 | Thu | 01:00PM-02:30PM | 4-231 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Do you present your work to your lab, at conferences, or to a faculty or industry hiring committee? If so, this workshop is designed to provide you with tips and strategies for delivering an effective presentation, and one that aligns you with your audience. The more prepared you are, the more confident you will be. Discussions will include room set-up, proper dress, room management, and actual professional delivery to your audience. Whether you are targeting academia or industry, all employers will expect you to be able communicate effectively. Advanced registration requested via CareerBridge.
Sponsor(s): Global Education and Career Development
Contact: Nyasha Toyloy, E39-305, 617 715-5329, NYTOYLOY@MIT.EDU
Effective Technical Interviews
Gregory Marton
| Jan/26 | Tue | 05:00PM-07:00PM | 4-237 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Prereq: Some programming experience helpful
After 200+ interviews at Google, teaching a class there for candidates about to interview, and after an extensive job search in this area, I will share lessons learned, and leave plenty of time to answer your questions and concerns. Primarily for interviewees:
* What to expect,
* How to prepare,
* How to get un-stuck,
* Non-technical questions,
* Time permitting: a practice problem. Bring paper, pen, and courage.
Another version's slides: https://bitbucket.org/gregory_marton/coding-interview/src
Sponsor(s): Student Information Processing Board
Contact: Gregory Marton, sipb-iap16-effective-interview@mit.edu
Excelling at MIT and beyond: Developing a "Growth Mindset"
Lourdes Aleman, Research Scientist
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: None
Many students arrive at MIT riding on years of academic success and praise from teachers, parents, and colleagues. But what happens when you encounter uncertainty and failure? Have you been in a challenging class where you worry about how others will perceive you if don't sound "smart" enough? When you fail to achieve a specific goal, how do you manage and overcome discouragement and self-doubt? In this course, we will examine how our own notions of potential and ability can have a fundamental impact how we approach our work, how much we learn, and how successful we can be in achieving our goals. The course will focus on recent, evidence-based insights regarding human performance, neuroplastictiy, motivation and on how deliberately cultivating a "growth-mindset" can improve our willingness and ability to face challenges and to innovate, despite the risk of failure.
This course is limited to 20 students. Please send a brief description of who you are and why you would like to take this course to Lourdes Alemán at laleman@mit.edu. You will be notified via e-mail to confirm registration. Registration is opened until 1/8.
Sponsor(s): Office of Educational Innovation and Technology, Biology
Contact: Lourdes Aleman, 617 715-5348, LALEMAN@MIT.EDU
| Jan/12 | Tue | 10:00AM-12:00PM | 8-205 |
How people learn, neurosplasticity, struggling and how it relates to learning.
Lourdes Aleman - Research Scientist
| Jan/15 | Fri | 10:00AM-12:00PM | 8-205 |
The relationship between different types of mindset, learning and achievement.
Lourdes Aleman - Research Scientist
| Jan/19 | Tue | 10:00AM-12:00PM | 8-205 |
Learning to embrace challenges and learning from them: cultivating a growth mindset.
Lourdes Aleman - Research Scientist
| Jan/22 | Fri | 10:00AM-12:00PM | 8-205 |
Using deliberate practice to improve learning and achievement.
Lourdes Aleman - Research Scientist
FAILURE -- AN ESSENTIAL INGREDIENT TO BEING SUCCESSFUL IN SCHOOL, SCIENCE, AND STARTUPS
Amir Nashat ScD '02, Managing Partner, Polaris Partners
| Jan/12 | Tue | 06:00PM-07:00PM | 32-141 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Most MIT students have rarely, if ever, tasted intellectual failure before arriving on campus. MIT, for good reason, tries hard to soften the blow that every freshman goes through of suddenly being surrounded by the best students in the world and learning how to cope with failure.
This class addresses a fundamental paradox, if failure is so bad, why do virtually all major scientific discoveries and most successful startups begin with failure? We will review both well-known and not-so-well-known examples where failure was the prerequisite for success, with the aim of crafting a set of personalized rules that can help us have fun, succeed and make a big impact at MIT and in our lives after graduation.
Amir Nashat, ScD. Course 10, '02. Educated as an engineer at Berkeley and MIT, Amir has spent his time since school helping entrepreneurs start great companies, and, along the way, starting a few himself. Amir is a managing partner at Polaris Partners, a leading venture capital firm with offices in Boston, San Francisco and Dublin. He has spent most of his career working in biotechnology, being fortunate to meet great entrepreneurs and have the opportunity to invest in a number of important companies and medicines that can make a huge impact on patients' lives. Amir has also led the startup phase of three MIT-based startups (Living Proof, Pervasis and Sun Catalytix), ranging from personal care to medicine to energy fields.
Sponsor(s): Alumni Association
Contact: Elena Byrne, W98-206C, 617 252-1143, EBYRNE@MIT.EDU
Get a Patent on your Invention & Turn it into a Startup!
Christopher Noble
| Jan/14 | Thu | 12:30PM-02:00PM | 3-133 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/14
You've invented something really cool. Can you get a patent? Can you create a company around it?
Come and hear Christopher Noble, MIT Technology Licensing Officer. Learn how and when to file a patent (and if you need to); how your startup can spin the invention out from MIT and get that coveted “exclusive license”; how MIT’s Technology Licensing Office can help you; and what investors are looking for when they ask you: “What about your IP?”
To register please email: kmkhalil@mit.edu
Sponsor(s): Technology Licensing Office
Contact: Katrina Khalil-Iannetti, NE18-501, 617 253-6966, KMKHALIL@MIT.EDU
Greatest Hits of 6.006
Amartya Shankha Biswas, Michaela Ennis
| Jan/11 | Mon | 07:00PM-08:00PM | 56-114 |
| Jan/13 | Wed | 07:00PM-08:00PM | 56-114 |
| Jan/15 | Fri | 07:00PM-08:00PM | 56-114 |
| Jan/20 | Wed | 07:00PM-08:00PM | 56-114 |
| Jan/22 | Fri | 07:00PM-08:00PM | 56-114 |
| Jan/25 | Mon | 07:00PM-08:00PM | 56-114 |
| Jan/27 | Wed | 07:00PM-08:00PM | 56-114 |
| Jan/29 | Fri | 07:00PM-08:00PM | 56-114 |
Enrollment: Limited: First come, first served (no advance sign-up)
Limited to 30 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: Programming experience in Python
Covers the core material of 6.006 very, very fast.
Basic algorithms, data structures, including sorting, dynamic programming, and graphs.
Weekly programming assignments, twice-weekly office hours.
You will gain the background necessary to apply algorithmic techniques to your area of interest, and to succeed at software engineering interviews.
Sponsor(s): Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Eta Kappa Nu, Student Information Processing Board
Contact: Amartya Shankha Biswas, asbiswas@mit.edu
Hacking a Software Interview -- Mastering Programming Interview Questions
Ron Chaney
| Jan/20 | Wed | 05:30PM-07:00PM | 36-156 |
| Jan/21 | Thu | 05:30PM-07:00PM | 36-156 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: one MIT programming class or equivalent; 6.006 useful
Ever wanted to work at a company like Akamai, Facebook, Google, or TripAdvisor? There's just one thing standing in your way: the interview. Whether you're a beginning programmer or a seasoned expert, this class can help you prepare for a technical interview. The class will focus on computer science topics that frequently come up in programming interviews. We will cover topics like time complexity, hash tables, binary search trees, and some other things you might learn in 6.046. Most of the time will be spent teaching participants how to formulate responses to technical questions during an interview. Real life examples will be used. If you have any interest in working at a computer science company, make sure you don't miss this class!
Sponsor(s): Student Information Processing Board, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Contact: Jaime Perkins, jperkins@akama.com
Improv Comedy Workshop to Improve Communication and Public Speaking
Jake Livengood, Assistant Director for Graduate Student Career Services
| Jan/26 | Tue | 03:00PM-04:00PM | E39-040 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/26
Limited to 20 participants
This event is open to undergrad and grad students and postdocs. Have you had that awkward moment in a presentation where someone asks a really weird question? Has a student in class posed an off-the-wall idea while you are presenting? Do you fear what a committee member may ask in your thesis defense? This improv workshop will help develop skills to respond to such situations. We will be doing improv comedy exercises to develop a comfort with engaging others. Participants should expect to participate in improv comedy exercises with attendees. Fun will be had by all...we hope. Advanced registration required via CareerBridge. Registration begins 12/15/15.
Sponsor(s): Global Education and Career Development
Contact: Nyasha Toyloy, E39-305, 617 715-5329, NYTOYLOY@MIT.EDU
Interviewing advice from Tech-industry experts: How to decide on the best job opportunity for a successful career
Beverly Kahn, Risa Kahn
| Jan/20 | Wed | 05:00PM-07:00PM | 36-112 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Join recruiting industry veterans in an interactive discussion lead by Beverly Kahn Founder/President of New Dimensions in Technology (NDT), a boutique Boston-area recruiting firm, that has worked successfully to place many MIT students and alums over 30 years and Risa Kahn, Recruiting Manager, New Dimensions in Technology (NDT) who offers 15+ years of coaching "early career" tech professionals. NDT has successfully partnered with generations of MIT students and alums to build and grow their careers!
All are welcome.
Sponsor(s): Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Contact: Anne Hunter, 38-476, 617 253-4654, ANNEH@MIT.EDU
Leveraging Experience Abroad to Get the Job
| Jan/08 | Fri | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 4-159 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
This interactive session will provide an opportunity for students who have participated in OR are considering participating in global experiences to explore how these present an advantage to their candidacy during the job search. We will consider employer perspectives, alumni perspectives, and current student perspectives on what can be learned by going abroad and how it can be translated into life skills. Strategies for adding global experiences to resumes and discussing these experiences while interviewing will be discussed. Advanced registration requested via CareerBridge.
Sponsor(s): Global Education and Career Development
Contact: Nyasha Toyloy, E39-305, 617 715-5329, NYTOYLOY@MIT.EDU
LinkedIn - Lab
| Jan/06 | Wed | 02:00PM-03:00PM | 4-159, Bring your laptop. |
Enrollment: https://www.myinterfase.com/mit/student
Sign-up by 01/05
Limited to 30 participants
Attendance: Repeating event, particpants welcome at any session
Bring your laptop to explore the many ways LinkedIn can help you in your career exploration and job or internship search. We will begin with an overview of LinkedIn and some of the key areas of a complete LinkedIn profile. We will also cover some ways LinkedIn can be used as job search tool. This will be followed by individual work on your profile, with Career Services staff available to answer your questions. Advanced registration required via CareerBridge. Registration begins 12/15/15.
Sponsor(s): Global Education and Career Development
Contact: Nyasha Toyloy, E39-305, 617 715-5329, NYTOYLOY@MIT.EDU
LinkedIn - Lab
| Jan/25 | Mon | 02:00PM-03:00PM | 4-159, Bring Yyour laptop. |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/25
Limited to 30 participants
Bring your laptop to explore the many ways LinkedIn can help you in your career exploration and job or internship search. We will begin with an overview of LinkedIn and some of the key areas of a complete LinkedIn profile. We will also cover some ways LinkedIn can be used as job search tool. This will be followed by individual work on your profile, with Career Services staff available to answer your questions. Advanced registration required via CareerBridge. Registration begins 12/15/15.
Sponsor(s): Global Education and Career Development
Contact: Nyasha Toyloy, E39-305, 617 715-5329, NYTOYLOY@MIT.EDU
Making the Most of Your Presentation, featuring Jean-luc Doumont
| Jan/19 | Tue | 02:00PM-04:00PM | 10-250 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
GECD and ODGE are thrilled to welcome back Jean-luc Doumont for his annual IAP lectures on excellence in communication --
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.
Advanced registration requested via CareerBridge.
Sponsor(s): Global Education and Career Development
Contact: Nyasha Toyloy, E39-305, 617 715-5329, NYTOYLOY@MIT.EDU
Maximizing Your UROP Experience
| Jan/20 | Wed | 04:00PM-05:00PM | 5-233 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Come learn from UROP Staff how to maximize your research experience and communicate with different research stakeholders.
Sponsor(s): Office of Undergrad. Advising/Academic Programming
Contact: J Alex Hoyt, 7-104, 617 324-6700, JAHOYT@MIT.EDU
Negotiating Job Offers
| Jan/28 | Thu | 02:00PM-03:30PM | 4-149 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
The Negotiating Job Offers workshop presented by Bob Dolan will examine the many variables that exist during the evaluation and negotiation process of Job Offers. Knowing how, when and why you should negotiate will be reviewed. Salary vs. Total Compensation will be examined. Strategies on the negotiation process will be discussed along with "Should You Negotiate?" and "What Can" and "What Can Not" be negotiated. These strategies can be used throughout your career. Advanced registration requested via CareerBridge.
Sponsor(s): Global Education and Career Development
Contact: Nyasha Toyloy, E39-305, 617 715-5329, NYTOYLOY@MIT.EDU
Practicing a Meaningful Elevator Pitch
| Jan/07 | Thu | 01:00PM-02:15PM | 4-159 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Among the greatest missed opportunities are banal responses to questions like "tell me about yourself" Learn and exercise creative ways to be a successful self-advocate: together, we will strengthen our responses to hallway chatter and use reflection to develop, rehearse, and share an authentic elevator pitch with meaning! Advanced registration requested via CareerBridge.
Sponsor(s): Global Education and Career Development
Contact: Nyasha Toyloy, E39-305, 617 715-5329, NYTOYLOY@MIT.EDU
Pre-med volunteering: spice up your resume and do something meaningful (and maybe even earn a paycheck!)
Alison Hynd, Director for Programs, Chiara Magini, Community Employment Administrator, Sarah Bouchard, Community Engagement Administrator, Meaghan Shea, Prehealth Advisor
| Jan/21 | Thu | 02:00PM-03:00PM | 4-149 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/20
Are you pre-med or considering a health career?
Do you want to do something meaningful to fulfill the med school application service requirement?
Are you interested in funded community service options?
Do you worry that your current activities won't stand out in a sea of similar applications?
Then this session is for you!
Staff from the Priscilla King Gray Public Service Center and Prehealth Advising will present options for meaningful health-related community service activities in the Boston area and beyond. You'll learn about cohort-based programs, individual volunteering resources, funding possibilities, and get help identifying the opportunity that works for you.
And we want to learn from you! Come ready to tell us what you want to do and how we can help.
Sponsor(s): Priscilla King Gray Public Service Center, Global Education and Career Development
Contact: Alison Hynd, W20-549, 617 258-0691, HYND@MIT.EDU
Scholarly Reputation Management for Early Career Researchers
Michal Altman, Ph.D., Director of Research and Head/Scientist, Program on Info Sci
| Jan/25 | Mon | 01:00PM-03:00PM | E25-111 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/25
Limited to 125 participants
Prereq: none
In the rapidly changing world of research and scholarly communications researchers are faced with a rapidly growing range of options to publicly disseminate, review, and discuss research—options which will affect their long-term reputation. Early career scholars must be especially thoughtful in choosing how much effort to invest in dissemination and communication, and what strategies to use.
In this talk, Dr. Altman briefly reviews a number of bibliometric and scientometric studies of quantitative research impact, a sampling of influential qualitative writings advising this area, and an environmental scan of emerging researcher profile systems. Based on this review, and on professional experience on dozens of review panels, Dr. Altman suggests some steps junior researchers may consider when disseminating their research and participating in public reviews and discussion.
Location: E25-111
Click here to register for this IAP class.
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Kelly Hopkins, E25-131, 617 253-3044, KHOPKINS@MIT.EDU
The Art of Behavioral Interviewing
| Jan/27 | Wed | 01:00PM-02:45PM | 4-149 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Learn how to develop and enhance your interviewing skills! While your technical skills will get you the interview, it is your behavioral attributes that will get you the job. This workshop delivered by Bob Dolan will cover topics such as types of interviews, sample interview questions, appropriate dress, and important tips to think about before, during and after the interview. The intended outcome is to help you prepare and develop a strategy for a successful interview. In addition, sample behavioral and academic interview questions will be provided along with tips on how to answer these tough questions. Advanced registration requested via CareerBridge.
Sponsor(s): Global Education and Career Development
Contact: Nyasha Toyloy, E39-305, 617 715-5329, NYTOYLOY@MIT.EDU
The Queer Career: Considerations for LGBTQ Individuals to Make When Choosing a Job
Deborah Liverman
| Jan/26 | Tue | 05:30PM-07:00PM | 50-005 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Times are changing and more companies are not only welcoming LGBT individuals into their ranks, they are actively recruiting them. Unfortunately not all companies have been as vocal of their welcome for LGBT individuals. Given the range in openness about what companies do for their LGBT employees, it can be hard to know what considerations LGBT individuals should make in order to make the best choice. Join MIT Career Services staff for a discussion about what LGBT individuals should know before accepting a position. All are welcome.
Contact: Abigail Francis, 50-005, 617 253-0684, AFRAN@MIT.EDU
The Startup Code 2016 - The Fastest Ways to Grow Your Startup into a Successful Thriving Business
Andrew Percey '95, MNG '96, Founder, Prometheus Internet Marketing
| Jan/26 | Tue | 10:00AM-05:00PM | 32-141 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/25
80% of Startups fail before their second birthday. This is because people build boring "Me Too" businesses and expect the crowds to flock. According to The New York Times, we get exposed to around 5,000 sales and marketing messages every day. We live in a very noisy world full of established businesses and hungry startups all fighting for the same precious customer eyeballs. This is why your business needs to STAND OUT and be different, if you want it to survive and thrive.
In this highly-focused, information-rich one-day marketing conference for startups you will learn how to:
• Differentiate and elevate your startup above the competition
• Make your startup shine through thoughtful branding and PR
• Build a your business through Google Search (SEO & PPC)
• Attract and nurture prospects through inbound marketing
• Use social media to build authority and build a following
View the schedule on the seminar website.
This seminar will be presented by:
• Andrew Percey '95, MNG '96, Google AdWords expert, founder of Prometheus Internet Marketing and advisor to the MIT Venture Mentoring Service (VMS)
• Kenny Goodman, business growth mentor and founder of Find The Edge
• Kevin Hart, Creative Director and partner at HB/EMA Boston
• Nick Salvatoriello, VP of Client Services and partner at Innovative Marketing Resources
*a light lunch will be provided from noon to 1:00 p.m. generously sponsored by Workbar.
Contact: Elena Byrne, W98-206C, 617 252-1143, EBYRNE@MIT.EDU
Transferable Skills
| Jan/12 | Tue | 02:00PM-03:00PM | 4-145 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Do you feel unprepared to jump into the real world of work because you are lacking work experience? Well, you may have more knowledge, skills, and abilities than you think! Transferable skills are marketable skills that you have acquired throughout your life. They can be learned through coursework, class projects, jobs, internships, volunteering, or leadership roles. Attend this workshop if you want to learn how to identify your own skills and the skill employers are looking for in today’s job market. This workshop is open to undergraduate and graduate students. Advanced registration requested via CareerBridge.
Sponsor(s): Global Education and Career Development
Contact: Nyasha Toyloy, E39-305, 617 715-5329, NYTOYLOY@MIT.EDU
Unleash Your Inner Company Part I (Intro & Overview)
John Chisholm '75
| Jan/26 | Tue | 05:45PM-07:15PM | E25-111 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/26
Limited to 150 participants
Based on John Chisholm's book, this fast-paced, 90-minute workshop offers a ten-step process for discovering, testing, selecting, launching, and scaling the right business for you.
Where to start? What hasn't already been done? How to build confidence to take the plunge? Need a co-founder? How to choose one? How/when to raise money? How to scale your business? Is starting a for-profit business as ethical as starting a non-profit? The workshop will answer these questions and more.
Learn how to:
- Discover dozens of unsatisfied customer needs in areas you are passionate about
- Recognize advantages for satisfying those needs
- Assess and strengthen the fit between you and customer needs; choose the best fit
- Overcome doubts and insecurities holding you back.
This workshop will help you to do what you love, create security for yourself, and make the world a better place.
John Chisholm '75, CEO of John Chisholm Ventures (www.johnchisholmventures.com) founded or co-founded three software companies in 25 years: Decisive Technology (now part of Google), the first company to automate surveys online; CustomerSat (now part of Confirmit), a leader in enterprise feedback management; and Pyze, a mobile intelligence startup. He is an MIT and Santa Fe Institute trustee; has mentored hundreds of entrepreneurs and invested in dozens of startups; and holds patents in online polling.
To register: http://upop-portal.mit.edu/events/view/?id=814
See also http://bit.ly/235a3UY
Sponsor(s): Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program -UPOP, Alumni Association
Contact: Kate Moynihan, 1-123-B, 617 253-0041, KATEJM@MIT.EDU
Unleash Your Inner Company Part II (Q&A & 1:1s)
John Chisholm '75
| Jan/27 | Wed | 05:45PM-07:15PM | 32-141 Stata Center |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/27
For those who have read Unleash Your Inner Company and are currently contemplating, building, or running a startup, author/serial entrepreneur John Chisholm will be available for Q&A, discussion, and brief 1:1 consultations.
Unleash Your Inner Company (Greenleaf Book Group, October 2015), available on Amazon, MIT Coop, MIT Press Bookstore, and Barnes and Noble.
John Chisholm '75 ‘76G is CEO of John Chisholm Ventures (www.johnchisholmventures.com) and president and chair of the MIT Alumni Association. He has three decades of experience as entrepreneur, investor, and CEO. He founded or co-founded three software companies: Decisive Technology (now part of Google), the first company to automate online surveys; CustomerSat (now part of Confirmit), a leader in enterprise feedback management; and Pyze, a mobile intelligence startup. He is a trustee of MIT and of the Santa Fe Institute; has mentored hundreds of entrepreneurs and invested in dozens of startups; and holds patents in online polling.
To register: http://upop-portal.mit.edu/events/view/?id=820
This workshop is Part II of a 2-part series. See also Part I at
http://student.mit.edu/searchiap/iap-9289af8d5110156e0151171a5d1700a3.html
Sponsor(s): Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program -UPOP, Alumni Association
Contact: Kate Moynihan, 1-123-B, 617 253-0041, KATEJM@MIT.EDU
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