Professional Skills

Manage Up workshop series

Advice for any scientific talk:

This website contains links to excellent resources on designing and practicing your talk.

This handout contains resources on structuring your argument, handling Q&A, tips for non-native English speakers, and guides for navigating both long and short talks.

This video from iBiology and Susan McConnell (Stanford) takes you through designing effective scientific presentations.

Conference Talks:

This rubric describes the features of an effective conference talk. Give it to your labmates/audience when you're giving a practice talk!

Job Talks:

This rubric evaluates the features of an effective job talk for a position at an R1 institution. Give it to your labmates/audience when you're giving a practice talk!

These slides describe an effective job talk for a position at a primarily undergraduate institution (PUI).

This rubric evaluates the features of an effective job talk for a position at a PUI. Give it to your labmates/audience when you're giving a practice talk!

These slides outlines the features of an effective job talk for a position in industry.

Posters:

Check out this website for multiple resources on figure and poster design as well as how to print posters at UCSF.

Research articles

This website has guidance and annotated samples for each section of a research article.

Grants

Grant Writing Workshop on Mentored Career Development Awards is directed by Tom Mitchell, MPH, Program Faculty, School of Medicine, Epidemiology & Biostatistics. Scholars will pace themselves through the grant writing process through a series of five pre-recorded lectures. More info and resources on the Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics website.

General networking advice:

This website has lots of tips for networking online, in-person, and using informational interviews to build your professional network.

This Career Tip of the Month highlights how to gracefully exit a networking conversation.

These slides go over how to use UCSFConnect to network.

Networking for career exploration and specific careers:

These slides go over how to network as a means to explore different careers.

These slides go over how to network to get a job in industry.

These slides go over how to network to get a job in a nonprofit or think tank.

TRAIN-UP workshop series