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Upcoming events

Building an academic portfolio for the job market

By Jonathan Miller
December 12 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST

In this interactive workshop, you’ll develop an academic portfolio that showcases your qualifications, research, and teaching experience. Whether you’re new to the academic job market or enhancing your portfolio, this session will equip you to stand out.

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Meetup with Funmilola Ayeni

By Jonathan Miller
January 9, 2025 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST

Meet Dr. Funmilola Ayeni of Nigeria, a microbiologist who undertook IIE Scholar Rescue Fund fellowships at Vassar College in New York in 2019-2021. Dr. Ayeni is currently an assistant professor at Indiana University, where she studies food as medicine and the human microbiome.

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Strategic planning for your arts practice

By Jonathan Miller
February 27, 2025 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm EST

This session will empower you to design the creative career you envision. You will begin by defining your objectives, then work through strategic planning techniques such as the SMART Goal-Setting and SWOT Analysis. You will walk away with action steps that align with your goals and a replicable decision-making framework that prioritizes your vision of […]

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Writing an artist statement

By Jonathan Miller
March 27, 2025 @ 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm EDT

Writing about your work effectively unlocks opportunities. Yet it can be difficult and intimidating to distill everything you do into a few words. This session will help you develop language to harvest opportunities, cultivate and grow your network, and connect to people who can support your work. You will work through interactive exercises to help […]

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Past events

To protect attendees’ privacy, we do not record panel discussions or Q&A segments where personal information is discussed.

Writing a professional cover letter

By Jonathan Miller | November 7, 2024

Led 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.

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Developing a professional resume

By Jonathan Miller | October 24, 2024

This 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 […]

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Writing a compelling personal statement

By Jonathan Miller | September 26, 2024

Guided by an interactive worksheet and a customized slide deck, sociologist and university professor Alfred Babo and “joy coach” Kimberly Kenyon helped participants begin to develop a personal statement that captured their strengths, experiences, and aspirations. Dr. Alfred Babo is an alumnus of both the IIE Scholar Rescue Fund and Scholars at Risk and sits […]

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How to read job advertisements

By Jonathan Miller | August 22, 2024

In this interactive workshop, participants learned to decode and analyze job postings, identify key requirements, evaluate fit, anticipate interview questions, and tailor their applications. The session was not recorded to protect attendees’ privacy, but the facilitator has kindly provided her slides. “Joy coach” Kimberly Kenyon has more than three decades of experience as a career […]

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Building a professional network

By Jonathan Miller | March 1, 2024

Americans like to believe that anyone can succeed if they work hard enough. But in reality, no one can succeed alone, especially in a new country. In this webinar, you will learn how to use LinkedIn and other tools to build a network to connect you to information, opportunities, and other people who can help […]

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