Opportunities in Public Health

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Opportunities in Public Health
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Outline

• Experiential Education
• Certificate and Graduate Programs
• Careers in Public Health
• Making your application

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Experiential Education

• Volunteer Work
• More flexible schedule
• Will give you a reference
• Internships
• Paid or unpaid, may give class credit
• Usually more structured, requires application
• Usually for a set period of time

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Certificate and Graduate Programs

• Certificate Programs
• UT Houston School of Public Health
• Graduate Programs

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Choose your recommenders

• Academic
• A faculty member
• Someone for whom you volunteer
• Professor for a class
• Faculty advisor for your student organization
• Faculty advisor for your major concentration
• Other
• TA
• Academic advisor
• Career advisor

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Choose your recommenders

• Non-Academic
• Supervisor
• Internship
• Volunteer
• Work
• Community leader
• Minister
• Family friend

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Ask for a recommendation

• Initial request verbally or in a letter
• Ask early!
• Do not use unenthusiastic recommenders
• Set a time to meet
• Prepare information about the opportunity-grad
  program, internship, etc.
• Prepare information about you

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Prepare for meeting your recommender

• Assemble all information in one package!
• Program information
• brochure, job description, link to website
• forms
• Your information
• resume, transcript, personal statement
• Schedule of deadlines

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• Susie Sophomore
• 123 Yellow Brick Rd.
• Austin, TX 78712
• 512-235-5883
• ssophomore_at_mail.utexas.edu
• EDUCATION
• The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX
• BS in Biology May 2009
• GPA 3.1/4.0
• COURSES
• Genetics and Lab, Public Health Bacteriology and
  Lab, Medical Geography, Statistics
• SKILLS
• Laboratory Identification of
  bacteria, phenotyping,
• Computer Microsoft Word, Excel,
  PowerPoint, Access
• Other Proficient in Spanish

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Tips for the Resume

• Bullet points to describe a job or activity
• Dont use a pronoun
• I was responsible for maintaining the fruit fly
  colonies
• Performed all maintenance for 4 fruit fly
  breeding lines
• Be concise
• The job involved plating at least 30 different
  cultures of E-coli
• Plated more than 10 strains of E. coli

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Meeting with your recommenders

• Coach your references
• Give them your resume, transcript, draft of
  personal statement
• Discuss your goals, short term and long term
• Tell them about the program, what you hope to
  gain

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Follow Up

• Give your recommenders a polite reminder before
  the deadline
• Keep your recommenders informed about what the
  results of your applications are
• Thank them! A thank you note is greatly
  appreciated