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

[Kangning Huang]

Hi All,

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

We are soliciting questions to ask the panelists on Slido. 
You can use the link below to post questions or vote up the existing questions that you are most interested in.

https://app.sli.do/event/gnwnzi9m <https://app.sli.do/event/gnwnzi9m>

During the event, we will prioritize the questions that receive the most votes. 
We will also have time for additional questions you can ask directly or write in the chat box.

Hope to see you on Thursday.

Best,
Ken

> On Jun 3, 2021, at 10:17 AM, Kangning Huang <knhuang at ucar.edu> wrote:
> 
> 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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