[Grad-postdoc-assn] Prof. dev. series - Academic Job Talk

[Kangning Huang]

Good morning,

Please join us on Thursday, June 10 at 9:30 am MT for the NCAR Fellows Postdoctoral Professional Development Series event:

Panel on Preparing Academic Job Talk

Date: Thursday, June 10, 9:30 am - 10:45 am (MT).
Register in advance for this meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAqdO2rrDojE9TR1XsdDby49GDrFGSwDYRI <https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAqdO2rrDojE9TR1XsdDby49GDrFGSwDYRI>
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. 

Facilitators: Nick Lybarger, Kangning Huang

Panelists:
Dr. Christiana Stan, Associate Professor at George Mason University
Dr. Lei Zhao, Assistant Professor at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Dr. Kangning Huang, NCAR-RAL post-doctoral fellow

Panelists will share their experiences in preparing an effective academic job talk and what they are looking for in a job talk given by interviewee. Possible topics include:
What are the differences between a job talk and other talks given in conferences and lab meetings?
How much research experience should I include in a job talk?
How to organize multiple papers/projects?
How to balance between “big picture” and “technical details”?
How to make the presentation easier to understand without making my work less sophisticated?
Whether and how do you tailor your talk for different positions at different institutions?
Do research- or teaching-intensive universities expect different types of talks?
How to practise delivering the talk?
How to anticipate and prepare for Q&As after the talk?
After attending job talk as an interviewer, how would you have done differently if you were to give the job talk again? 

Mark your calendar. Hope to see you there.

Kangning (Ken) Huang
NCAR, Research Application Lab



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