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Tips for Grads: Communication
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| Graduate students must learn to tailor their message to a handful of audiences: grant or search committees, undergraduate students, or other academics in our field. One of the more difficult forms of writing is also one of the most common: cover letters. While an academic job cover letter has a specific format, the structure and content of cover letters for non-academic positions is more variable. The Writing Center offers an excellent introduction to cover letters. - Do not use generic or boilerplate cover letters. It is immediately clear to a review committee when a candidate has not taken time to write a unique cover letter for a newly opened position.
- Tailor your letter to the job advertisement. Use the job advertisement’s required and preferred qualifications as the structure for your cover letter. While you need not have all of them, calling out the ones you do have is important because some qualifications can be learned on the job.
- Explicate clearly how you fit. Review committees want to get a sense that you understand what the organization does and what is required of prospective the position does. To that end, state clearly what skills or competencies you bring to the hiring organization and how you will contribute to what they are doing already. Leaning too far in one direction may convey to the search committee that you don’t understand the position, or that you understand the position but have no relevant experience.
- Proofread. Proofread. Proofread. Cover letters with grammar and spelling mistakes are much easier to pass over than letters that are error free.
While a well-written cover letter won’t guarantee you a job, it will prevent you getting an out-right rejection and prepare you for further communications with the hiring organization.
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DiscoverPD is an innovative tool for UW-Madison graduate students to advance their academic and professional goals. Review the nine facets of professional development, complete a self-assessment, and get a customized report and recommendations.
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Upcoming Professional Development Events
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Creating an IDP encourages you to think about what you need to do next — and over the next few years — so that you achieve your goals. We will discuss how to define achievable goals, identify resources, and develop strategies for implementing and sustaining your plans. Participants will begin to create a personalized plan that takes into account career interests and addresses the development of knowledge and skills. This event is co-sponsored by the Graduate School Office of Professional Development and Delta Program.
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| A Writer's Retreat
Wednesday, July 26 | 4:30 - 7:30 pm
6191 Helen C. White Hall | Communication
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| R Programming and Concepts
June 26-30 [series, attend all] | 9:00 am -12:00 pm
3218 Sewell Social Sciences | Inquiry, Discovery, and Creation | Disciplinary Expertise and Interdisciplinary Connections
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Special Events & Conferences
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Extended Writing Center hours this summer
With the start of the 8-week Summer Session, the Writing Center has expanded hours for individual writing instruction: June 19 to August 10 (closed July 4), Mondays-Thursdays, 10:00 am - 4:00 pm. Trained, supportive instructors are eager to work with students on course papers, application essays, theses, proposals, dissertations, writing for publication, and more! Enrolled students can schedule their own appointments by visiting writing.wisc.edu and by clicking on "Make An Appointment." You can also stop by or call 608.263.1992 during regular desk hours. Skype and email instruction also are available.Registration open for the Graduate School Degree Dash Get your semester off to a fast start! Join fellow graduate students, faculty and staff for the 2nd Annual Degree Dash hosted by the Graduate School at UW-Madison. Set your goal for 5.7 miles for the Doctoral Derby (no, you don’t have to be in a Ph.D. program to participate), or for 1.75 miles for the Master's Mile (for those who need to “graduate” early). Race distances are based on average time-to-degree. You will meet fellow students, faculty and staff, tour campus, come away with a t-shirt or water bottle, and gather information that will help you to start your semester off quickly. And the best part is, whether you come in first or last place, you’ll get a diploma at the finish line. All are encouraged to participate in this event – new and current graduate students, faculty, staff and family members. Teams are encouraged and eligible to win prizes.
Improv for Scientists Class
Want to more confidently talk about your work? Want to improve your presentations? Want to have some fun while you learn? Consider taking Improv4Scientists, a 6-week, 1-credit course (Medicine 710) based on the Watson/Northwestern Medical Improv Curriculum and work from The Alda Center for Communicating Science. Classes will meet on Tuesdays from 5:00-7:30 pm, from September 19 through October 24. If you have questions, contact Amy Zelenski, PhD at zelenski@medicine.wisc.edu.
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Please note: Some graduate students may be ineligible to hold graduate assistantship appointments. Be sure to check with your graduate program coordinator about your eligibility before applying.
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The Data Incubator is a Cornell-funded data science training organization that runs a free advanced 8-week fellowship (think data science bootcamp) for PhDs looking to enter industry. A variety of innovative companies partner with The Data Incubator for their hiring and training needs, including LinkedIn, Genentech, Capital One, Pfizer, and many others. The program is free for admitted Fellows.
The Center for Research on Gender and Women is very pleased to solicit applications for a new competitive award: a $5000.00 scholarship to support graduate-level research and/or advocacy pertaining to reproductive health, rights, and justice. The intended purposes of this award are twofold: first, to support the scholarly and career trajectories of future professionals in this topic area; second, to advance the reproductive health, rights, and justice of residents of Wisconsin and beyond. Any currently-enrolled graduate or professional student from UW-Madison is eligible. Current graduate students in Gender and Women’s Studies will receive preference in the selection process.
The K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award recognizes graduate students who show exemplary promise as future leaders of higher education; who demonstrate a commitment to developing academic and civic responsibility in themselves and others; and whose work reflects a strong emphasis on teaching and learning. All doctoral level graduate students who are planning a career in higher education are eligible, regardless of academic department. Graduate students in fields where the Master's degree is the terminal degree, such as the MFA in art, are also eligible. (Nominees must hold student status in January 2018.) One of the top-ranked universities in the country, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, located in downtown Chicago, combines innovative technology and pioneering research in a highly collaborative environment. Looking to recruit self-motivated Postdoctoral Scientist/Fellows in the Department of Pathology and Feinberg Cardiovascular Research Institute for studies of immune cells during cardiovascular disease (including in the heart after myocardial ischemia or after heart transplant).
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