Syracuse University Gradcast

Joshua Ratel-Khan, G’20, and Mariann Fant, G’20 both graduated with master’s degrees in Communication and Rhetorical Studies in May 2020. As a couple, they navigated a successful job search both securing positions in the same geographic location during a pandemic. Whether you’re searching for a job with a partner, or not, their experience and advice will help with your own job search.

Glenn Wright, Ph.D., and Dan Olson-Bang, Ph.D., provide an overview of our next PhD/postdoc challenge, this time focused on Career Exploration. They outline and provide helpful tips for ways of, well, doing something when you're not sure what to do! 

Make sure to sign up for our challenges (happening each semester) so you can learn a step-by-step guide to career exploration!

Welcome to our brief introduction to the spring semester. This episode includes an introduction of our new team member, Tracy Balduzzi, Ed.D., notes about upcoming challenges and wellness events, VMock (a resume review platform), Handshake (our career portal) and how we can help!

We’re excited to share an interview on networking with Christina Faulkner, G’17. She graduated from Syracuse University with a M.S. in Clinical Mental Health Counseling but has since has changed career paths. Now, she is graduating Data Analytics and Information Systems in May 2021 and is starting full time as a Data and Security Engineer at IBM.

We discuss what makes a good networking request, what are some types of messages that aren’t as effective, and what is the biggest thing she’s learned from being on the networking receiving side vs. teaching side.

Thi Nguyen, Ph.D., a career expert, scientist, and founder of InterSECTjobsims.com, joins us to describe her career path, an in-depth rundown of what InterSECT Job Sims offers, and how you can benefit from it! InterSECTjobsims.com is a website that gives you bite-sized chunks of tasks--job simulations--of a variety of career paths, with the intention of helping PhDs and postdocs to discern what careers would be most interesting to them. 

Dan Olson-Bang, Ph.D., and Tracy Bauer, G’15, provide general tips in writing professional emails; responding to recruiters and how to respond to emailed offers.

If you’re not sure how to conduct a strategic job search, or have never conducted a job search before, take a listen as Dan Olson-Bang, Ph.D., and Tracy Bauer, G’15,  discuss the steps so you can be more proactive in your search.

We're delighted to introduce you to Maren Wood, Ph.D., founder of Beyond the Professoriate and Aurora, an e-learning platform available for students to use.  Aurora is designed to help you:

Dan Olson-Bang, Ph.D., and Tracy Bauer, G’15, discuss their top tips and for the semester break in our last episode until January 2021. While we take a break, catch up on previous episodes.

Caitlin Dawson Brown, LMHC, G’14, helps us better understand self-care and how to reframe our thinking on what it is and why it is incredibly important to incorporate it into our daily lives. Caitlin can be found on Instagram at @cdbrowncounseling.