WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT

The overarching goals of the PATHS-UP workforce development plan is to increase STEM literacy, recruit and educate a diverse group of students across the P-20 pipeline, and provide professional development for pre-college teachers in urban and rural underserved schools.
FIU is hosting an RET program for high school teachers from our underserved communities to learn about PATHS-UP and develop research-inspired lesson and activity plans. In collaboration with our RET participants, our program is developing PATHS-UP modules that will be used by our PATHS-UP labs to supplement our flagship educational outreach programs: Engineering Expo and Engineers on Wheels.

PATHS-UP Resume and Cover Letter Writing Workshop, June 2018

A workshop to teach scholars and fellows how to write resumes and cover letters was given by FIU Career and Talent Developmetn career coach Leandria Vickers.
Here is some tips given at the workshop.

Resume writing
- Employers make judgements based on your resume
- What is a resume?
- Purpose is show qualifications and secure interview
- Appearance, quality, information, and experiences
- Resume activity - Who do you think should be chosen for the internship position?
- Reviewed sample resumes
- Average time an employer spends reviewing a resume? 6-8 seconds!
- Use active words
- Create a winning resume
- 1 pg!
- CV is more academic and does not have a page limit
- Use words that you find in job description in your resume
- Get past applicant tracking system
- Soft skills
- 8 areas of competency
- Highest is critical thinking/ problem solving
- Functional vs. Chronological
- Standard Resume components
- Additional categories
- Honors, skills, languages, etc
- References
- What not to put on your resume

PATHS-UP Graduate School Workshop, June 2018

A workshop about graduate school was given by Mais Kayyali, Sara-Michelle, and Brian Cano highlighting the benefits of pursuing an advanced degree. PATHSUP fellows, scholars, REU and REM attended the workshop to learn more about advancing their academic careers.
Here is some advice given at the workshop.

How to prepare for graduate school whhile you're still an undergrad?
-Develop a well-rounded curriculum
-Find research internship opportunities
-Get to know your professors
-Identify graduate programs that interest you
-Connect with alumni
-Request recommendation letters
-Complete and gather all necessary documents

Graduate admission process:
-Know the deadlines
-Deferrals
-MS Admissions
-GPA
-GRE
-PhD Admissions

FIU Resources:
-GRE Prep course
-Workshops

PATHS-UP Mentoring Session, May 2018

A mentoring session took place in FIU with ERC faculty offering career advice to PATHS-UP scholars, fellows and post-docs. The panel consisted of (from left to right) Dr. Ramella-Roman, Dr. Wei-Chiang Lin, Dr. Laura McPherson and Dr. Jacob McPherson. Students had the opportunity to ask questions about career paths, work-life balance and important milestones to achieve at different moments of academic careers. The mentoring session was moderated by FIU Student Leadership Council representative Mariacarla