UC San Diego PhD Career Conference 2015

Join us for the 7th Annual PhD Career Conference at UC San Diego! This conference agenda highlights many career opportunities represented by the successful careers of PhDs who have found their niche as well as workshops designed to help PhD students and postdocs achieve career success.

Agenda

12-12:30 pm: Registration - Price Center (PC) East Ballrom

12:30-1:30 pm: Keynote Speaker - PC East Ballroom

• Susan Basalla May, PhD, Author and Principal Executive Search Consultant

1:35-2:30 pm: How to Market Yourself: Recruiters' Perspectives - PC East Ballroom

2:40-3:30 pm: Concurrent Panel Sessions

• PhDs in Business - PC West: Theater
• PhDs in Research - PC East: Forum
• PhDs in Education- PC East: John Muir Room
• PhDs in Startups - PC East: Earl Warren Room

3:45-5 pm: Round Table Networking

5-5:45 pm: Networking Reception and Closing Remarks

For more information and a full list of panelists, visit the PhD Career Conference website.

Keynote Speaker Bio

Sue May specializes in conducting searches for leadership, academic, and managerial positions within higher education, with additional experience finding leaders for select non-profit institutions, think tanks, and independent schools.

Before joining Storbeck/Pimentel, Sue worked for higher education strategy consulting firm Art & Science Group, LLC. She managed year-long client engagements with more than 25 institutions across the country, ranging from small women’s colleges to large research universities. She regularly presented to faculty bodies and governing boards, and provided confidential counsel to college and university leadership.

An expert on alternative careers for graduate students, the third edition of Sue’s book -- So What Are You Going to Do With That?: Finding Careers Outside Academia– was published by University of Chicago Press in 2015. Sue has published 18+ articles in the Chronicle of Higher Education’s “Beyond the Ivory Tower” column and given more than 35 invited lectures at universities around the country.

Event app:

The conference will again be using the Whova app. Whova event app is designed to assist event attendees navigate through their events with mobile brochures and facilitate networking among all event attendees based on their professional profiles, which are automatically generated from relevant professional information assembled from company bio pages, personal home pages, social media profiles (LinkedIn), news/blogs, publication, patent, etc. The profiles include only professional information publicly available in the Internet and does not show personal profiles such as Facebook and Google Plus or any contact information. To contact other attendees, speakers or organizers, an in-app messaging feature is provided. Consent to be listed as an attendee in the app will be available during registration for this event.

Please download the Whova event app to receive access to mobile brochures, GPS guidance, maps, and extensive networking features that allow you to connect with other participating event attendees.

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Sponsors

Dick Attiya Lec Fund