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Finding an Administrative Job at Harvard or MIT: An Exclusive Workshop for Partners and Spouses of Harvard and MIT Ladder Faculty

Date: 

Tuesday, October 8, 2019, 10:00am to 1:30pm

Location: 

114 Mt. Auburn Street, Room 406, Cambridge

Harvard Gate

The Office of Faculty Development and Diversity and FAS Faculty Development at Harvard are delighted to host an exclusive workshop for faculty spouses and partners interested in finding an administrative position at Harvard or at MIT. Experienced HR recruiters from Harvard and MIT and faculty partners from both institutions who are working in administrative roles will provide helpful tips and strategies for a successful job search. A networking lunch with Harvard and MIT recruiters will follow. 

This is a great networking event for partners and spouses of Harvard and MIT faculty who wish to explore professional career opportunities at these institutions. 

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Schedule

10 - 10:10 am Sign-in, welcome remarks and introductions
 
10:10 - 11 am Experienced HR recruiters from Harvard and MIT will provide an overview of working at their institutions from the recruitment perspective (overview of the hiring process and Harvard and MIT career portals, important skills and desired qualities, tips and strategies that make a difference, etc.). There will also be time for Q&A. 
 
11 am - 12:00 pm

Panel of faculty partners who work at Harvard and MIT, along with one partner who went outside the sphere and works in industry, telling their job search stories and sharing what worked for them and how things turned out. There will also be time for Q&A.

  • Jesse Howell, Academic Programs Manager and Associate Director of the AM Program, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
  • Paige Johnston, Assistant Director of Public Programs, Harvard Graduate School of Design
  • Omar Alvarez, Senior Sponsored Research Administrator, Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University
  • Daphne de Baritault, Program Director, Office of Corporate Relations, MIT
  • Fei Deng, Quality Engineer, Mathworks 
12-1:30 pm Closing remarks and networking lunch for faculty partners and HR recruiters

Please send your resume/cv and any positions of interest from the Harvard Careers or MIT Careers websites to fdd@harvard.edu so that we may provide this information in advance to the HR recruiters for discussion at the networking lunch.

Registration required. Open to spouses and partners of Harvard and MIT ladder faculty only.

Sponsored by the Office of Faculty Development and Diversity and FAS Faculty Development at Harvard University

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