Upcoming Events

Join the Career Center and GradPro for the upcoming panel: The Hiring Process from the Other Side on March 1st, 3-4:30 p.m. PST to learn more about how job application candidates are evaluated and selected. We have invited human resources professionals and hiring managers from diverse industrial backgrounds to share their insights on hiring advanced degree holders like you. If you are looking for government jobs, non-profit positions, or private corporation work, make sure to sign up for this panel! Especially for grad students and postdocs in the humanities and social sciences, but open to all grad students and postdocs.

Data are the foundations of the social and biological sciences. Familiarizing yourself with a programming language can help you better understand the roles that data play in your field. Learn to develop and train your data skills for free at our R workshops! The D-Lab's R Fundamentals workshop is a four-part introductory series that will teach you R from scratch with clear introductions, concise examples, and support documents. You will learn how to download and install the open-sourced R Studio software, import, export, manipulate, and visualize data, and learn to write shorthand functions of your code. After completion of this workshop you will have a foundational understanding to create, organize, and utilize workflows for your personal research. Each of the four parts is divided into a lecture-style format interrupted by short breaks, challenge problems, and discussions. Instructors and TAs are dedicated to engaging you in the classroom and answering questions in plain language. No prior experience or background knowledge is required. R Fundamentals Part 1: Introduction Students will learn how to navigate the R Studio environment. You will also learn how to store data, characteristics of basic data types and data structures, the importance of data frames (think Excel spreadsheets), and how to save your work.

This four-part, interactive workshop series is your complete introduction to programming Python for people with little or no previous programming experience. By the end of the series, you will be able to apply your knowledge of basic principles of programming and data manipulation to a real-world social science application. Part 1 Topics: Running Python Jupyter notebooks Variables assignment Types conversion Strings Built-ins

Want to make a web map, but not sure where to start? This short workshop will introduce key mapping terms and concepts and give an overview of popular platforms used to create web maps. We’ll explore one of these platforms (ArcGIS Online) in more detail. You’ll get some hands-on practice adding data, changing the basemap, and creating interactive map visualizations. At the end of the workshop you’ll have the basic knowledge needed to create your own simple web maps.

The Cal Career Center is pleased to invite you to attend the virtual 2021 Environment & Sustainability Career & Internship Fair. The Environment & Sustainability Career & Internship Fair is expressly for students seeking full-time and internship opportunities in the areas of the environment, sustainability, clean energy/technology, and other related fields. This fair is open only to currently-enrolled UC Berkeley students and eligible alumni (less than five years past graduation with an active Handshake account). All majors and degree levels are welcome to attend. IMPORTANT NOTES: Register for the fair! To participate in employer 1:1 and group sessions, you must be registered Advance sign up for 1:1 and group sessions with employers is highly recommended to secure your spot (day-of sign ups may be available, but the most popular slots may already be filled) CHECK AVAILABLE SESSIONS FREQUENTLY - Employers add sessions up to and including the day of the fair. If you don't see open sessions with an employer of interest, select the "follow" button to be notified when they set their schedule. Make sure your Handshake profile is up-to-date and complete! Employers have the ability to set student qualifications for their 1:1 sessions. So, for example, if your GPA is missing, you may not be able to see some employer schedules! Student Registration Opens: Wednesday, February 24, 9AM. LEARN MORE ABOUT THE VIRTUAL FAIR: Handshake’s Guide to Attending a Virtual Fair Virtual Career Fairs - Tips for Students

Interactive career labs will start with 20-30 minutes topic overview and discussion, then participants will have the opportunity to work on their own materials/skills in peer-to-peer pairs. You do not need to be currently on the job market to benefit from participating in this event; you will gain insights into interviewing dynamics and strategies for preparation that can serve you in the future. PLUS…. learn about campus resources such as Handshake, Vault and BigInterview that can help you successfully connect with potential employers. Register here: https://forms.gle/zAFGBGfGrDGPLLsGA

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D-Lab info session for the LBNL community. Come learn about all the resources and services D-Lab has to offer and see how you can get involved! We will give an overview of our workshops, trainings, consultations, services, and projects. This is also a chance for D-Lab to engage with the LBNL Community. We hope to collaborate on how the D-Lab can support and be a resource for LBNL with research or professional development. Register here. If you are not part of the LBNL community but are interested in organizing a D-Lab info session for your community, please reach out to [email protected].

Bridging the "Two Cultures": Interdisciplinary, Public, and Digital Humanities Approaches to STS Facilitated by Rebecca Baker Thursday, March 4th, 2021 4-6pm (PST) Zoom link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/9717309292 Meeting ID: 971 730 9292 The STS Futures Initiative is proud to announce our second panel discussion event for the 20-21 academic year, Bridging the "Two Cultures": Interdisciplinary, Public, and Digital Humanities Approaches to Science, Technology, and Society Studies (STS). How can humanities’ methods and foci can act as a “bridging discourse” between scientists, culture workers, and the wider public? How can students and scholars engage critically and usefully with science and technology from a humanities point of view, and what might be the implications and importance of bringing together these traditionally separate disciplinary discourses--both within and outside the academy? This event brings together the following scholars (in order of presentation), working at the intersections of STS-oriented pedagogy, the public/digital humanities, and feminist/antiracist approaches to research.: Lindsay Thomas (U of Miami): The "Big Humanities": Collaboration and Team-Based Open Research in the Digital Humanities Lindsay Thomas is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Miami. Her research and teaching focus on cultural and media studies, contemporary US literature, and the digital humanities. Her book, Training for Catastrophe: Fictions of National Security after 9/11, will be published in March 2021 by the University of Minnesota Press. She is also a co-director of WhatEvery1Says, a digital humanities project that employs a variety of methods in data science, ethnographic research, and textual analysis to examine contemporary public discourse about the humanities on a large scale. Abigail Droge (Emory University): Reading with Scientists Dr. Abigail Droge is an ACLS Emerging Voices Fellow in the Department of English at Emory University. She received her PhD from Stanford University in 2018 and subsequently collaborated on the Mellon-funded digital and public humanities project “WhatEvery1Says: The Humanities in Public Discourse” as a Postdoctoral Scholar at UC Santa Barbara. Her research focuses on the history of reading in nineteenth-century Britain, and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Victorian Periodicals Review, the Journal of Literature and Science, and Victorian Studies. She is particularly interested in considering how literature might help us to bridge specialized fields, and her teaching emphasizes connections between academic disciplines, time periods, and reading communities. Nicky Rehnberg (UC Santa Barbara): Alone, I Am Just One Tree: Community Science and the Archangel Tree Archive Nicky Rehnberg is a UC Santa Barbara graduate student in History, studying 19th- and 20th-century Environmental Public Histories. Her dissertation explores the development of national and state parks in California, particularly focusing on the areas surrounding Sequoia National Park and Redwood National and State Parks. She works on the History and Relevancy Project with the California State Parks Service, researching and creating public tours of Carpinteria State Beach and, since COVID-19, a virtual field trip week-long event with the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation for Santa Barbara junior high schoolers. Kalindi Vora & Sarah McCullough (Dir & Assoc Dir of Feminist Research Institute, UC Davis): The Science We Are For: Feminist Antiracist STS Approaches to STEM Kalindi Vora is Professor of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies and Director of the Feminist Research Institute at UC Davis. She is author of Surrogate Humanity: Race Robotics and the Politics of Technological Futures (Duke 2019), co-authored with Neda Atanasoski, and Life Support: Biocapital and the New History of Outsourced Labor (2015, recipient of Rachel Carson Book Prize 2018), and is one of the authors of the multigraph Technoprecarious (2020). She has published numerous ethnographic articles about gestational surrogates in India, appearing in journals such as: Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology, Current Anthropology, Social Identities, The South Atlantic Quarterly, and Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience. Sarah McCullough, PhD, is the Associate Director at the Feminist Research Institute. She is Co-PI on a NSF study that integrates justice-oriented frameworks from STS/ethnic studies into STEM graduate education. She participates in a multi-racial collective of transportation professionals dedicated to mobility justice and is the founder of the Mobility Justice Research Network. She applies her expertise in ethnographic methods, discourse and power analysis, and science & technology studies to create research partnerships between social science/humanities scholars, STEM researchers, and community partners. She earned her PhD in Cultural Studies with a DE in Feminist Theory & Research at UC Davis.

Alumni Career Chat: the chance to explore diverse career fields through conversation with alumni with hands-on experience. Our guest alum from operations is Bryce Schierenbeck. He has had a varied and impressive career and is now GlobalOperations Lead for Charitable Giving (Fundraisers) at Facebook. Bryce is looking forward to sharing his experience and insights in this Career Chat. Take advantage of this opportunity to meet Bryce in an informal conversation.

Telling Your Story To Employers Part 3: more practice to make use of the techniques

Is a career in the biotech/biomedical industry possibly in your future or simply interested in exploring the exciting field that sits at the nexus of technology and life sciences? Join us for an evening of networking with professionals ready to share their career stories and advice from roles in bioengineering, mechanical engineering, biochemistry, biology, and more!

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The Cal Career Center is pleased to invite you to attend the virtual 2021 Diversity Career & Internship Fair. Join us for the 2021 Diversity Career & Internship Fair which is co-sponsored by the UC Berkeley Chicanx Latinx Alumni Association (CLAA) and the Career Center. More than 60 employers expected, representing a wide variety of industries! Recruiting all majors and degree levels! Recruiters across industries, with a particular interest in enhancing the diversity of their workforce will bring information about their entry-level career, fellowship and internship positions. Students of color may also register for the Diversity Summit, featuring career development programming, and held virtually via Zoom on Friday, March 5, 2021, 1-5pm PST. Look for the event details and Zoom link on Handshake.   Scholarship drawing: a drawing for at least six (6) $250 scholarships will be held. Students who attend and participate in both the Diversity Summit (March 5, 1-5pm PST) and the Diversity Career & Internship Fair double their chances of being awarded a scholarship. This fair is open only to currently-enrolled UC Berkeley students and eligible alumni (less than five years past graduation with an active Handshake account). All majors and degree levels are welcome to attend. IMPORTANT NOTES: Register for the fair! To participate in 1:1 and group sessions with employers, you must be registered Advance sign up for 1:1 and group sessions with employers is highly recommended to secure your spot (day-of sign ups may be available, but the most popular slots may already be filled) CHECK AVAILABLE SESSIONS FREQUENTLY - Employers add sessions up to and including the day of the fair. If you don’t see open sessions with an employer of interest, select the “follow” button to be notified when they set their schedule. Make sure your Handshake profile is up-to-date and complete! Employers have the ability to set student qualifications for their 1:1 sessions. So, for example, if your GPA is missing, you may not be able to see some employer schedules! Student Registration Opens: Wednesday, March 3, 9AM.

An introduction to programming basics in Bash and GitHub that are often assumed, but that you might have never had good instruction on! The first half of this workshop will introduce you navigating your computer’s filesystem and basic Bash commands to remove the fear of working with the command line to give you the confidence to use it to increase your productivity. The second half of this workshop will introduce you to Git, a powerful tool for keeping track of changes you make to the files in a project. You can use it to synchronize your work across computers, collaborate with others, and even deploy applications to the cloud. In this workshop, you will learn the basics to understand and use Git, including working with the popular "social coding" website, GitHub.

Join Will Kane, News Editor from the UC Berkeley newsroom, and Janet White, Assistant Director for Letters & Sciences for an “Alumni Career Chat.” Hear about Will's broad backround as a writer/editor for such outlets as Politico, the Economist and various startups; as a producer for the San Francisco Chronicle website, and currently news editor for Cal's Communications & Media Relations Department. We will discuss topics ranging from the various types of journalism roles to advice for breaking into journalism and freelancing -- with time set aside for your questions. Learn more about this talented alum's background on Linkedin! https://www.linkedin.com/in/willkane/

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The Cal Career Center is pleased to invite you to attend the virtual 2021 Nonprofit, Education, & Public Service Career Fair. The Nonprofit, Education, & Public Service Career Fair is expressly for students seeking full-time and internship opportunities in the areas of nonprofits, education, community leadership, government, public service, policy, NGOs, higher education, health & social services, and other related fields. This fair is open only to currently-enrolled UC Berkeley students and eligible alumni (less than five years past graduation with an active Handshake account). All majors and degree levels are welcome to attend. IMPORTANT NOTES: Register for the fair! To participate in employer 1:1 and group sessions, you must be registered Advance sign up for 1:1 and group sessions with employers is highly recommended to secure your spot (day-of sign ups may be available, but the most popular slots may already be filled) CHECK AVAILABLE SESSIONS FREQUENTLY - Employers add sessions up to and including the day of the fair. If you don't see open sessions with an employer of interest, select the "follow" button to be notified when they set their schedule. Make sure your Handshake profile is up-to-date and complete! Employers have the ability to set student qualifications for their 1:1 sessions. So, for example, if your GPA is missing, you may not be able to see some employer schedules! Student Registration Opens: Thursday, March 4 at 9AM. LEARN MORE ABOUT THE VIRTUAL FAIR: Handshake’s Guide to Attending a Virtual Fair Virtual Career Fairs - Tips for Students

This workshop will introduce students to the basics of designing a survey instrument using the Qualtrics platform, such as randomization and survey flow. We will also cover more advanced topics like implementing embedded data and using javascript, as well as tips and tricks on how to use your design to maximize the number of quality responses you get. The last hour of the workshop will be left open to allow for feedback on any existing designs on which participants are working. Prior Knowledge: No prior knowledge of the Qualtrics platform is needed, and no additional software is required. All that is needed is a basic understanding of computers.

It is often said that 80% of data analysis is spent on the process of cleaning and preparing the data. This workshop will introduce tools (notably dplyr and tidyr) that makes data wrangling and manipulation much easier. Participants will learn how to use these packages to subset and reshape data sets, do calculations across groups of data, clean data, and other useful stuff. Click here for install instructions and workshop materials.

presented by: the ASUC Mental Health Commission x Career Center) ----------- Rejections can weigh so heavily on us because our brains are hardwired to pay more attention to negative events than positive ones. This is called the “negativity bias” and it is exactly why we can feel so disheartened by "We regret to inform you that we've decided to go with another candidate (but you were highly qualified!)". Whether you've experienced (or haven't yet) a rejection from a club on campus, graduate program, or job/internship, this workshop is designed to help you develop tools to cope and bounce back from a rejection such as how to ask for feedback on your interview and make adjustments for future opportunities.

See organizers' website for details. If you are working on a computational text analysis project and have wondered how to legally acquire, use, and publish text and data, this workshop is for you! We will teach you 5 legal literacies (copyright, contracts, privacy, ethics, and special use cases) that will empower you to make well-informed decisions about compiling, using, and sharing your corpus. By the end of this workshop, and with a useful checklist in hand, you will be able to confidently design lawful text analysis projects or be well positioned to help others design such projects.

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See organizers' website for details. The Data Science Coast to Coast (DS C2C) seminar series is hosted jointly by seven academic data science institutes — BIDS, NYU’s Center for Data Science, Rice University’s Ken Kennedy Institute, Stanford Data Science, the University of Michigan’s Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS), and the University of Washington’s eScience Institute, and Johns Hopkins University's Institute of Data Intensive Engineering and Science (IDIES) — to provide a unique opportunity to foster a broad-reaching data science community. In the first half of 2021, DS C2C will host five seminars, each featuring one faculty member and one postdoctoral fellow from two universities. Each speaker will give a 20-minute talk about ongoing projects and motivating issues, followed by 20 minutes of discussion with the audience. These seminars will be the launching point for follow-on research discussion meetings that will hopefully lead to fruitful collaborative research.

See organizers' website for details. Participants in this workshop will learn about some of the issues surrounding the collection of health statistics, and will also learn about authoritative sources of health statistics and data. We will look at tools that let you create custom tables of vital statistics (birth, death, etc.), disease statistics, health behavior statistics, and more. The focus will be on U.S. statistics, but sources of non-U.S. statistics will be covered as well.

See organizers' website for details. Please note: QB3-Berkeley programs aim to support bioscientists, however other doctoral students may find content relevant for their professional development.  This career lab will discuss the basics of interview preparation and tips for success during the interview phase for all types of jobs. You do not need to be currently on the job market to benefit from participating in this event; you will gain insights into interviewing dynamics and strategies for preparation that can serve you in the future. PLUS, learn about campus resources such as Handshake and BigInterview that can help you successfully connect with potential employers. Interactive career labs will start with a 30-40 minute topic overview and discussion, then participants will have the opportunity to work on their own materials/skills in peer-to-peer pairs or small groups. Registration:  https://forms.gle/2vVH8beuZwYTFVuQ8

See organizers' website for details. This workshop helps you to step up your R skills with functional programming. The purrr package provides easy-to-use tools to automate repeated things in your entire R workflow (e.g., wrangling, modeling, and visualization). The end result is cleaner, faster, more readable and extendable code. I highly recommend you to take this workshop (1) if you still write copy-and-paste code, (2) exclusively rely on for loops for automation, and (3) want to know about the joy and power of R functional programming.

See organizers' website for details. Do you need to have a breakthrough in your writing and research productivity? Do you promise yourself every term that you're going to be highly productive, but end up falling short year after year? Do you want to learn why our Faculty Success Program consistently improves over 90% of participant's productivity every session? If so, join us for one of our most popular webinars where you will learn: How to avoid the biggest mistakes academic writers make during the academic term How to maximize your research and writing productivity How to combat professional isolation and create a supportive writing community

See organizers' website for details. This workshop is designed to help GSIs understand the character and consequences of microaggressions, and to help them begin to develop the tools to address them in their role as instructors. For those who attended any one of the similarly-themed workshops during the Fall or Spring conference for first-time GSIs, this will be an opportunity to revisit some of the topics discussed there, as well as address any issues that may have emerged in the course of their teaching since. For other GSIs, this workshop will provide a basic understanding of microaggressions and an opportunity to reflect on them in the context of their own teaching.

See organizers' website for details. In this workshop, Digital Learning Services staff will share the top tips we've gleaned from our combined decades of experience supporting faculty and instructors with DIY media content. We'll cover everything from setting up your recording space to utilizing free tools and resources to maximize your digital media workflows. If you’re an instructor looking to create video or audio content for online lectures, flipped classroom activities, blended learning materials, tutorial videos, this workshop is for you.

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See organizers' website for details. Join the UC Alumni Career Network for a transparent discussion on the traumatic toll the pandemic has taken on leaders and strategies you can implement to prioritize your needs and those of your team. Uncertain, stressful, draining, and disruptive are terms frequently used to describe the past several months. As a leader it can be especially challenging to lead your team and organization through difficult situations. For many in leadership positions guiding others through uncertainty can feel isolating, exhausting and, at times, hopeless. Gain insights on leading through disruption and change from alumna and author Diana Hendel (’85, UCI; PharmD ‘89, UCSF). During this one-hour webinar, Dr. Hendel will share her journey as an experienced healthcare executive and former hospital CEO and offer valuable advice to help you lead through difficult times.

See organizers' website for details. This workshop will feature in-depth training on the BioCyc pathway/genome databases and software tools given by BioCyc staff, with a focus on recently added features and functions. An opportunity to provide feedback on future BioCyc development plans will follow the training. Topics covered will include: Introduction to BioCyc * Database selection * Search operations * Principal information pages: Gene, operon, metabolite, reaction, and pathway pages * BLAST search, sequence pattern search, extracting sequences Transcriptomics and Metabolomics data analysis * Metabolic network browser * Displaying high-throughput data on individual pathways and metabolic network diagrams * Omics Dashboard SmartTables and comparative analysis * Using SmartTables to store, share, and analyze lists of genes and metabolites * Genome browser and comparative genome browser * Comparative analysis tables The workshop will be held on Zoom. You will receive the Zoom information after you register (see registration link).

See organizers' website for details. While graduate students do not need to become experts in how students learn, a basic understanding of the research on learning can enable GSIs to make informed teaching decisions. Drawing on research findings from neuroscience, anthropology, and cognitive and social psychology, this workshop will enable GSIs to consider ways to apply research-based principles to the learning environments they create for their students.   Zoom meeting information is linked above on the event page for your workshop under "Online Location/Join Online Event" *This workshop fulfills a requirement for the Certificate of Teaching & Learning in Higher Education. In order to receive credit for the Certificate of Teaching and Learning:  Arrive punctually and attend the entire meeting. Complete the attendance form at the end of the session (the platform does not notify you that your attendance was recorded but if you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact us). For attendance tracking ease, we ask that you use your given name as your display name in Zoom.

See organizers' website for details. Congratulations! You submitted a strong application, impressed the employer, and now you’ve been invited to interview for the role. What now? What should you expect? What can you do to prepare? Join one of our events to learn the answers to these questions and more. During the virtual workshop our expert recruiters will offer advice on how to prepare for and how to make a good impression at your next interview. They will speak about the different types of interview, from virtual to case to experience-based, and offer practical advice to help you convey your best self. Job interviews can be nerve-wracking if you aren’t sure what to expect or how to best show what you have to offer. We’re here to help you ace that interview.

See organizers' website for details. This three-part series will cover the following materials: Part 1:  Introduction Getting a dataset into Stata (no previous knowledge expected) Examining a dataset and finding variables of interest Summarizing and tabulating variables Stata specific tools and resources (do files, logs, help files, etc.) Coding and cleaning data (making new variables from old variables; labeling variables and values, etc.) Using logical operators in Stata Cross-tabulations Part 2: Data Analysis in Stata  Correlation T-tests OLS and logistic regression (basic syntax, using interaction terms, interpreting output) Visualization (histograms, bar graphs, scatter plots) Regression postestimation (getting predicted values, basic graphs) Merging and appending datasets Part 3: Stata Programming Local and global variables (macros) Looping (foreach, forvalues) Reshaping data between wide and long formats Recalling and using command output Generating nicely formatted journal-style tables Prior knowledge: A basic understanding of variables (nominal, ordinal, continuous), descriptive stats (mean, standard deviation), correlation, and regression will be assumed. Technology requirement: Please bring a laptop with Stata installed. You can install a trial version of Stata. Please arrive 15 minutes early for installation assistance. Workshop materials: https://github.com/dlab-berkeley/stata-fundamentals

See organizers' website for details. In this hands-on workshop, we will learn how to create web graphics for your digital publishing projects and websites. We will cover topics such as: image editing tools in Photoshop; image resolution for the web; sources for free public domain and Creative Commons images; and image upload to publishing tools such as WordPress. If possible, please install Photoshop in advance. (All UCB faculty and students can receive a free Adobe Creative Suite license: https://software.berkeley.edu/adobe(link is external)).

See organizers' website for details. Wondering what careers to explore as a Math major? Come with your questions and curiosities as this panel of professionals, all with a Math background, share their career paths and suggestions for what you can do while at Cal to establish a relevant career path that leverages your Major and coursework.