Today I attended a symposium put on by the UC Davis Internship & Career Center and the Office of Graduate Studies entitled Pathways. The symposium featured several concurrent session spanning both academic and industrial pathways for graduate students and post doctoral scholars. I attended the following seminars, and found them to be quite informative: Writing the Teaching Philosophy Statement, Negotiating Your First Faculty Position, How to Survive & Thrive as a New Faculty Member, and Finding a Postdoc Position & Getting the Most Out of It.

I was quite impressed with the symposium and would highly recommend it to students at UC Davis. In fact, I think it may be useful to attend this each year over for a few years in order to get all of the pertinent information as early as possible.