Skills You Can Use for

Your Future: Interviewing

2003 Career

Enhancement Day for Graduate Students and Post-docs

November 19, 2003

Room 315

Cancer Center

Howard University Hospital Complex

2401 Georgia Ave. N.W.

Washington DC 20059

NCAC-SOT Career Enhancement Day

8:20 a.m. Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:50 a.m. Welcome!

Sid Green, PhD

President, NCAC-SOT

Rob Mitkus, University of Maryland

Student Representative, NCAC-SOT

9:00 a.m. Interviewing skills for a position at a State organization

Kent Carlson, PhD, Biologist, OPP/Biopesticides and Pollution Prevention Division, USEPA, former Toxicologist/Environmental Specialist, Maryland Department of the Environment

9:30 a.m. Interviewing skills for an Academic assistant professor position (teaching primary, research secondary)

Robert Resau, PhD, The Community College of Baltimore County

10:00 a.m. Break

10:15 a.m. Interviewing skills for an Academic post-doctoral position Marion Ehrich, PhD, DVM, D.A.B.T., Virginia Tech

President, Society of Toxicology

10:45 a.m. Interviewing skills for an Academic assistant professor position (research primary, teaching secondary)

John Groopman, PhD, Chair, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins University

11:15 a.m. The Federal Hiring Process and What interviewers can and cannot ask by law

Angela Mosby, Human Resources Officer, Region III, USEPA Robert J. Mitkus, Sr., Deputy Director, Office of Communications and Government Relations, Region III, USEPA

11:45 a.m. Lunch

12:45 p.m. Welcome back!

Melinda Pomeroy, Virginia Tech

Student Vice-Representative, NCAC-SOT

Student Representative, May 2004

12:50 p.m. How to develop a Personal Presence for interviewing

Nancy Grimshaw, CCP, PHR, Office of Human Resource Services, University of Maryland Baltimore

1:20 p.m. Interviewing skills for a research position in Industry

James C. Lamb, IV, Ph.D., D.A.B.T., Senior Vice-President, Blasland, Bouck & Lee, Inc. (BBL Sciences)

1:50 p.m. Break

2:05 p.m. Interviewing skills for a research post-doctoral position in the Federal Government

Robert J. Mitkus Sr., Deputy Director, Office of Communications and Government Relations, USEPA

Angela Mosby, Human Resources Officer, USEPA Region III

2:35 p.m. Interviewing skills for a non-laboratory post-doctoral position in Federal Government

Marquea D. King, PhD, Toxicologist, Office of Pollution, Prevention & Toxics, Risk Assessment Division USEPA, Washington, DC

3:05 p.m. Mock Interviews

Ms. Mosby, Mr. Mitkus, and Dr. Ehrich will be available for either open one-on-one mock interviews or private one-one-one mock interviews

4:30-6:00 Student and Post-doc Reception