Career Club

2026 SESSIONS:

2026 Session 1 - Careers for PhDs (Jan. 29, 2026) in person - Scaife Hall, Room 4575, 5:30 - 7:30pm

Students will begin the process of Career Exploration by reflecting on their skills, interests, and values to help narrow down the focus on kinds of careers to explore further that match their preferences. This session included structured exercises, and small-group discussions to enable students to better clarify what they are looking for in a career.

2026 Session 2 - Conversations with Mentors (Feb. 19, 2025) - Zoom , 5:30 - 7:30pm

This session provided structure and space for students and mentors to have conversations about student career goals. It featured case-based discussions between groups of students and mentors on topics around career planning, including alignment of mutual expectations, work-life balance, and finding time for career planning. The session concluded with one-on-one meetings between students and their mentors to create individualized career plans.

2026 Session 3 - Building Your Network: Part 1 (March 19, 2026) - Zoom - 5:30 - 7:30pm

Alumni in careers aligned with the interests of students in the club will be invited to participate in this session. 

2026 Session 4 - Building Your Network: Part 2 (April 16, 2026) - Zoom - 5:30 - 7:30pm

This session will continue the previous theme with more speakers from employment sectors that align with club students’ interests. This discussion may also include junior faculty who can draw from their networks

2026 Session 5 - Dissecting job ads, resumes or CVs, and cover letter best practices (April 30, 2026) - Scaife Hall, Room 4575 - 5:30 - 7:30pm

This session is new this year, added in based on feedback from 2024 cohort, and endorsed by 2025 cohort. This session is to help with preparation for the next session: examples of job descriptions will be reviewed in the session, and dissected to understand what aspects need to be focused on in a resume or CV

2026 Session 6: Resume/CV & Cover Letter Review (May 21, 2026) - Zoom - 5:30 - 7:30pm

Each member of the career club will submit a prepared job resume 10 days prior (i.e. by May 11, 2026) to this session for a job (real or hypothetical). To facilitate revisions, we will assemble a panel to provide guidance on resumes or CVs, and cover letters in a small group format related to job sectors.

2026 Session 7 - Marketing Yourself (June 18, 2026) - Scaife Hall, Room 4575 - 5:30 - 7:30pm

Students will reflect on their personal brands and structure how they want to present their professional selves. They will develop elevator pitches based on both their research, personal accomplishments, and interests, and will get to practice their elevator pitches in pairs

2026 Session 8 - LinkedIn, emails, interviews (July 16, 2026) - Scaife Hall, Room 4575 - 5:30 - 7:30pm

Students will learn best practices for use of LinkedIn, and emails. This will include learning to identify, and compile lists of professionals to network with, and composition of introductory emails/LinkedIn messages

CAREER CluB ARCHIVE (click here!)

2025 Cohort

2024 Cohort

Feedback on the program from 2021 Cohort!

Moving Forward!

We presented our initiatives at the AAMC GREAT 2022 conference - see results from our first Club cohort!