Instructor: Mary Pat Wenderoth, Ph.D.

2-3:30 Tuesday

234 Mary Gates Hall

Cr/NCr

 

• Course requirements
• internships and summer research opportunities

 Breaking NEWS

• 5/17 Thursday 12:30-1:20--MGH 134-- Internships and summer jobs
• 5/18 Friday 1:30-2:20 -- MGH 134-- Job Offers and salary negotiations

Check out these web sites for leads on more careers in Biology 

• Ecology Society
• a portal to many different careers
• Science -career page

Course assignment:

1) Attendance and discussion (mandatory, if you miss 2 classes you receive NCr.)

2) 5-10 page paper -- DUE --Tuesday of Week 10

Research a job

• requirements of job
• how you apply for this type of job
• interview a person in that job (job shadow)
• future job market of that job, what type of advancement is there in this job
• what are the personal characteristics of a successful person in this job
• salary
• jobs associated with this job
• status of job market today-- 5 years from now
• reflect on what you thought job was about and how that view has changed after completing this assignment.

• The College of Forest Resources (UW) is hosting the spring meeting of the

US Office of Personnel Managements Professional Council of Federal Scientists and Engineers

at the NHS Hall, Center for Urban Horticulture, April 26 & 27, 2001. This organization is made up of forty-five high-ranking federal scientists and managers from a broad cross section of the US government, from Department of Defense, to Energy, to Education. To review the list of attendees go to: http://www.cfr.washington.edu/outreach/opm2001/register.html

On April 27th from 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM, the council will hold a special recruiting brunch session for the purpose of sampling the next generation of potential federal employees. All interested UW students can bring resumes and receive information about career opportunities within these agencies. A number of agencies will have recruiters at this session. For a list of attending members, go to: http://www.cfr.washington.edu/outreach/opm2001/register.html

• Summer Internship for Wet Land Monitoring

DOT (Department of Transportation) is sponsoring a summer internship (12 spots) for wet land monitoring. They have hired a faculty member from Evergreen State College to teach the interns how to assay the wet land areas, collect and anlayze data. Will be excellent opportunity to gain valuable field work experience.

Internship Title: Wetland Ecology and Monitoring Techniques

Position Title: Wetland Biologist Intern

Internship duration: June 25 - Sept. 6 2001

Days/hours commitment Monday - Thur 8-10 hours/day, approx 38-40 hrs/wk

Compensation $2500.00 stipend

• NASA Space Grant Program at the UW

Summer Undergraduate Research Program

Applications Now Available On-line Due April 20, 2001

Students may apply for part-time or full-time research positions. Part-time positions carry a time commitment of approximately 15-25 hours per week; full-time positions require a commitment of approximately 40 hours per week.

 

Part-time researchers will be awarded a stipend of $1,700 for the 10-week program; full-time researchers will be awarded a stipend of $3,400. All stipends will be disbursed semimonthly throughout the 10-week period.------Program Dates are June 18-August 24, 2001

• Overview of course
• Vic Snyder from career services will discuss status of current job market in science related careers

  The Growing Field of Bioscience

Assignment for week 1

• work on resume
• read want ads Sunday Seattle Times ( do this each Sunday)
  • go to Seattle Times Web site and search jobs
  • *find 3 jobs you would be interested in
• Start your Networking list
  • Names - phone numbers of 3 people and type of contact they are.

March 29th-- Attend product show at South Campus center

-talk to 2 sales reps and find out what their background is and what their work life is like.

Please use class time to

Visit career services --

1. Sign up for WEB- walk up
2. Bring resume for counselors there to review -- I will expect to see original resume with comments on it and the revised version. Have counselor sign your original resume.
3. Look through notebooks on shelf and find 2 jobs you would be interested in. copy down jobs & contact numbers.

April 4 and 5-- Attend Career Fair either day ( HUB Ballroom)

 Assignment for week 2 (have ready for class on April 10)

• Hand in resume
• Hand in job search from Career Services
• Hand in jobs you found in Seattle Times classifieds (can be xerox of jobs you cut out of paper or downloaded from the web)
• Hand in xerox of 2 business cards from Reps you met at career fair.

Janis Wignall - Manager of science education for Immunex

Mark Shaw- Interim Director, Health Education

Hall Health Primary Care Center

Assignment: One page (typed) essay on what you learned (insights and info) from today's speakers.

Les Beletsky-- Ecotourism Guide

books by Les

excerpt from his book on Belize

Chuck Treser, MPH---Associate Director, Department of Environmental Health, UW

assignment: one page typed -- What are characteristics of your ideal career?

Consider the following questions (but this is just a starting point)

• where you want to work,? (geographic region, in a lab, in the field, etc.)
• how much independence anad or responsiblity do you want?
• how much uncertainty vs. routine in your job
• how much people contact-- and what kind of contact?
• details vs global ideas
• amount of travel
• job security
• career challenge
• Do you want to work for a start up or an established company?
• do you want to run your own business or be a part of a bigger business

Week 5--April 24

• Shelly Slate-- graduate student in Epidemiology at the Fred Hutch Cancer Research Center
• Recap-- what have we learned so far?

Networking skills

 

Ksenia L. Peters-- Genetic counselor at Fred Hutch Cancer Research Center

(UW Grad)

 

Assignment: IDENTIFY YOUR NETWORK

select 5 different categories of individuals that could be part of your network

identify one person in each category, give name, e-mail and phone and state how they can help you.

Steve Hill-- ICOS

Kristie Forrest-- Account Manager for Kendro laboratory products

no assignment

Diane Friedl and Leslie Warning- Lab Temps-The Leader in Scientific Staffing

Diane is a UW grad (Spanish)

assignment: find 4 jobs to report on next week (written report)

• 1 job from the Seattle Times classified
• 1 job from the UW employment list
  • look under Staff jobs
    • under staff select professional, technical, research
    • please take some time and look through these offerings. There are alot of them-- they offer great benefits and experience here at UW
    • or administrative
• 2 other jobs

for each job list

• the job
• where you found the job (list URL if web source)

 Kerstin Glein--

Emerald City Forensics, Inc

2400 6th Ave. S., Suite 255

Seattle, WA 98134

 

other forensics sites in Seattle--NorthWest Labs

Forensics Science web page

Seattle U. has a forensics program

Kate Stenberg-- King County (ecology, wildlife)

Andy Osterhaus-- Graduate Student in Masters program in Teacher Education UW. Preparing for a career as a high school biology teacher.

John Schaefer-graduate student in Bioinformatics at the UW

no final--no class