Skills Series
PhD+ Consulting: Practice Case Interview #4 and Telling Your “Why Consulting” Story as a PhD Student
In this session we will discuss tips and strategies to best frame your experience as a PhD student to tell a compelling story for why consulting may be a good fit. We will review some answers to the question “walk me through your resume”, as well as practice some more advanced mock networking drills.
PhD students and Postdocs are essentially managers of your research projects. Therefore, learn and integrate project management principles in your work for efficiency and agility. Take ownership of your graduate experience to control the sense of powerlessness.
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In this session, reflect on your core values, skills and interests to evaluate which careers are likely to bear meaning and personal fulfillment in the long run. First, examine the beliefs, traditions, and experiences that have shaped your career decisions and directions.
Living from paycheck to paycheck can add stress to the already complex Graduate School and Postdoc training experience. In this workshop, learn the basics of finance management, budgeting, and strategies to manage your expenses within the Graduate Student or Postdoc stipend structure.
The UVA Library’s Research Data Services Team and Research Computing are partnering with UVA’s PhD Plus program to offer – Introduction to Programming in Python, with Mac
Entrepreneurship seminars are a mix of case discussions, guest panels, and action-oriented workshops covering topics such as: founders agreements, incorporation, market analysis, product development, funding and deal terms, business models, investor presentations, etc.
The UVA Library’s Research Data Services Team is partnering with UVA’s PhD Plus program to pilot a new module – Data Science Essentials in R – a six-session series to build data anal
This is a week-long event that runs from Jan 6 to Jan 10. The program runs from 9:00AM to 12:00PM each day.
In this session, we will see an example of a Bain style “interviewee led” case as well as delve deeper into case interview math and market sizing problems.