CCSF Workplace Navigation Workshop

Our NSF supported CCSF-UCSF collaboration is inviting biotech-bioscience community college students, alumni and faculty/staff to join online workshops we've developed for community college bioscience-biotech students and provide us with input/feedback to help us adapt them to a broader audience.

Goal of the Workforce Navigation Training: Provide students/trainees with the knowledge, skills, support and clarity they need to effectively assess and successfully navigate any lab environment and achieve their professional and career goals.

To learn more about our trainings and tools please visit: Building Inclusive Labs

• Friday, December 1st 2-4pm PT - Utilizing an Interview to determine a “Good Fit”

Go beyond focusing solely on presenting yourself as the optimal candidate and utilize the interview to determine if an internship/job opportunity is a “Good Fit” for you! In this workshop you’ll gain strategies to clarify your career and educational goals and frame questions to obtain accurate information to assess if a workplace will support those goals, while also learning to recognize potential misalignments.

Learning outcomes:

• Define what a ‘bad fit' or 'toxic work environment’ is
• Outline and clarify your own goals before the interview
• Use questions during an interview to determine whether a workplace is
• in alignment with your goals and values
• Articulate strategies and practice language to frame questions
• Describe examples of verbal and non-verbal red flags indicating the
• opportunity may not be a “Good Fit”
• Describe factors that can make it difficult to recognize and weigh the
• potential impact of red flags during and after an interview

Format:

Live virtual workshop with individual and group work

Facilitators:

Naledi Saul, Director, UCSF Office of Career and Professional Development and Interim Chief of Staff (SAA/Graduate Division)/PI for the NSF ATE collaborative grant: A Collaborative Approach to Work-Based Learning in Biotechnology: Building Inclusive Lab Environments.(DUE #2055735)

James Lewis, Project Director, City College of San Francisco/PI for the NSF ATE collaborative grant: A Collaborative Approach to Work-Based Learning in Biotechnology: Building Inclusive Lab Environments.(DUE #2055309)

Karen Leung, Biotechnology Faculty, City College of San Francisco/PI for the NSF ATE collaborative grant: A Collaborative Approach to Work-Based Learning in Biotechnology: Building Inclusive Lab Environments.(DUE #2055309)