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Learn how to navigate the job market for your new career in Workshop 5 in the ONWARDS Career Transitions Series. This workshop guides you through effective job search strategies beyond academic or creative sectors. Topics include identifying relevant opportunities, interpreting job postings, and building an organized job search routine. The session emphasizes self-care, time management, […]
RegisterOne of the most painful aspects of displacement is the way it disconnects us from the people, organizations, and causes that meant so much to us back home. How do we stay personally, professionally, and politically engaged when we are no longer physically present? In this webinar, medical researcher Rasha Azrag (Sudan), literary writer Danson […]
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To protect attendees’ privacy, we do not record panel discussions or Q&A segments where personal information is discussed.
In this interactive workshop, participants learned how to develop an academic portfolio that showcased their qualifications, research, and teaching experience. The focus was on the essentials-crafting CVs, writing research statements, articulating teaching philosophies, and selecting publications-while aligning their portfolio with hiring committee expectations. To protect participants’ privacy, the workshop was not recorded. A slide deck […]
Learn MoreThis informal conversation on November 21, 2024 featured Pedro X. Molina, an editorial cartoonist from Nicaragua. The session was in Spanish. Pedro fled Nicaragua during a crackdown on dissent in 2018. He was a resident of Ithaca City of Asylum in Ithaca, NY, where he taught at Ithaca College, then was an Artist Protection Fund […]
Learn MoreLed by career coach Carol R. Anderson, this workshop demonstrated how to write a targeted, persuasive, evidence-based letter that bridges the gap between a job posting and your resume.
Learn MoreThis hands-on workshop offered tips on identifying and articulating one’s accomplishments and impact in the organizations for which one has worked or volunteered. Attendees learned how to build and sequence the presentation of their accomplishments tailored for each specific opportunity. They also discussed the use and misuse of AI and how to format a resume […]
Learn MoreThis informal meetup on October 10, 2024 featued Dieu-Nalio Chery, a freelance photojournalist from Haiti who is now a Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan. He was a Visual Artist in Residence with NYC Artist Safe Haven Residency Program in 2021-2022 and recently completed a fellowship with City of Asylum Detroit. Chery’s work has been published […]
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