The OACD Video Library has been developed as a resource to access recordings of past OACD programming content. Recordings are availble from a variety of programs, and are free to access.
By default, videos are listed in chronological order (newest through oldest), but you can filter results by using any combination of the search options below including keywords, program type, and year.
Discover the world of funding opportunities and easily identify the ones that are right for you at any career stage! Are you looking for funding opportunities to kickstart your research career or to move it to the next level and not sure where to start? Pivot is a searchable funding opportunity and expertise database, subscribed to by the University of Pittsburgh and offered to all faculty, postdoctoral trainees, and graduate students. The database is a comprehensive source for funding information from all disciplines and users can conduct searches for funding opportunities, save searches and receive funding alerts tailored to your scholarly profile. Ryan Champagne and Bradley Pollock from Pitt’s Office of Sponsored Programs discuss how to use this valuable resource. Additional resources are also shared for identifying prestigious academic awards, fellowships available to non-US citizens, funding programs for early career faculty, and internally-coordinated competitions for limited submission and University-funded programs.
How can PhDs build meaningful and impactful careers after their degree or postdoc? Now more than ever, PhDs work in a variety of career fields, leveraging their education and training wherever smart people are needed. But how exactly do PhDs successfully job search? What are the proven strategies you can apply to successfully build your career?
As a student or postdoc at the University of Pittsburgh, you have access to the PhD Career Training Platform, a one-of-a kind resource where you can explore career options and learn how to job search in academia and beyond. Through self-paced courses and live webinars in the Training Platform, you’ll learn how to launch a successful job search.
After viewing this presentation, you'll be able to:
-Describe the challenges PhDs face in their job search
-Identify the resources in the PhD Career Training Platform that can help you
-Apply tips and strategies to confidently begin your career exploration and job search in academia or beyond
Interviewing, like all forms of communication, is about telling stories that resonate with your audience. Your story can be the most important one they hear!
Interviewing is about demonstrating how your background, experience, skills and enthusiasm are aligned with the employer’s needs, and that you have a unique set of talents that can add value and move their agenda forward. To ensure that decision makers understand what exactly you can do for and with the employer, you want to build verbal bridges between you and them. This takes place in the form of stories.
In this webinar, presented by Alaina Levine, we discussed leveraging virtual platforms to execute an interviewing plan that will help you land that dream job. We reviewed how to craft and deliver stories before, during, and after the interview, how to adjust different elements of a virtual experience (such as light and sound), and how to look professional on camera. We also went over how to deliver an oral presentation—such as a job talk or a colloquium—using virtual methods to indicate your knowledge, expertise, enthusiasm, and collaborative nature.
This session drew upon the experiences of accomplished investigators and explored the challenges and opportunities associated with research collaboration. Moderated by Marie Norman, PhD, who provided a brief overview of Team Science, panelists discussed what precipitated their first collaborations, what challenges or obstacles have been encountered, what advantages and opportunities have resulted from collaborations, the implications of collaboration upon tenure, and they shared advice for those new to collaborations.
Taking on the responsibility of being a mentor requires new skills and knowledge that are not typically addressed in academic training programs, though evidence-based approaches have emerged to help new mentors build and maintain successful mentoring relationships. In this workshop, the group learned about these current best practices in mentoring, and the tools necessary to be a successful mentor. The group developed vital strategies to cultivate and manage productive mentoring relationships that contribute to the professional success of mentees and that provide mentors with personal satisfaction throughout their careers.
We learned from a Subject Matter LinkedIn Expert, Ms. D. B. Wienke, who began by demonstrating the process of optimizing your LinkedIn profile in real-time using her proprietary worksheet. She provided the group with action steps for successfully inviting professionals post-conference into their LinkedIn networks. She also showed the group how to tap into the hidden job market, conduct advanced people searches in verticals of particular interest, and earn informational interviews using this powerful platform.
Worried about finances? You are not alone. This workshop, presented by Cynthia Grindel of LifeSolutions, explored the habits and attitudes that drive financial decisions, discussed how to develop a budget, shared tips for saving and reviewed additional resources available through the Employee Assistance Program.
This presentation features Dr. Laura Miller's path from graduate student to Associate Director of the OACD as an example of how you can take control of your own personal career journey. "The PhD is Your Landing Pad: Grab Hold of the Control Panel"-and guide where your rocket will go!
In an effort to pursue an environment of inclusive excellence at Pitt, we have developed an infrastructure to assist eligible PIs and mentees to connect, collaborate, and successfully submit NIH Research Supplements to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research (PA-21-071: Research Supplements to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research (Admin Supp Clinical Trial Not Allowed) (nih.gov).
Learn more about the process of submitting these applications and the infrastructure established to help you!
During this session, presented by Marnie Oakley, DMD (Senior Associate Dean for Clinical and Faculty Affairs, School of Dental Medicine), the group learned how to prepare for, conduct, and follow-up on the difficult conversations that most people dread.
