Instructors: Meng Xiao, Ph.D., Career Counselor, Graduate College

Description:

This session will help students better understand how academic culture(s) impact the academic job search process. Participants will learn about how to navigate the academic job search process and develop application materials that effectively reflect the values and priorities of the institutions and departments to which they are applying.

Participants who attend this session will learn:

• tactics for identifying the cultural values and priorities communicated in academic job descriptions

• the tasks and priorities of various academic job documents like cover letters, research and teaching statements

• strategies for demonstrating alignment with institutional culture in academic job materials

Engaging Across Cultures is offered by International Student and Scholar Services and extends the success of our Building Our Global Community series for staff and faculty by creating a special series tailored to graduate and professional students at the University of Iowa. Engaging Across Cultures is a non-academic, professional development certificate program that creates an opportunity for UI graduate and professional students to learn more about fostering an intercultural campus while honing skills that will carry into the future workplace.

Engaging Across Cultures includes subjects of interest to both domestic and international students. Participants earn a certificate by completing a series of sessions (a required introduction session + two electives), which may also be included in a professional development section on a resume or CV.