Use the Center to improve your skills in a variety of academic and professional applications.
Speaking
Build your repertoire of skills for the many opportunities at YSE:
Writing
Learn the form, strategic choices, and style for research proposals, funding and scholarship essays, course papers, theses, cover letters, resumes, Ph.D. personal statements, C.V.s, and blog posts. Writing sessions include the mechanics of writing, as well as the subtleties. The most valuable topics for graduate level writing and career building: develop your 'voice' for formal and informal contexts; incorporate sources via paraphrasing, summary, direct quote; learn techniques to organize your ideas, develop your argument, and keep readers' attention.
Career
Apply our speaking and writing techniques to mock informational and behavioral interviews, networking practice, cover letters, and bios. Career sessions can include any stage of interview or job talk preparation.
Communication Strategy
Develop preparation techniques and strategies to get the most from advisor meetings, benefit from networking events, manage group dynamics, persuade in cross-cultural contexts, request personal references, correct misconceptions with diplomacy, and code-switch for listeners and contexts. Have a challenge outside this sampling? Schedule a Zoom session
Speaking
Build your repertoire of skills for the many opportunities at YSE:
- presenting for classes, conferences, podcasts, MOOCs, and Research Day
- pitching for case competitions and ventures
- interviewing, both as interviewer and interviewee
- leading and participating in class discussions
Writing
Learn the form, strategic choices, and style for research proposals, funding and scholarship essays, course papers, theses, cover letters, resumes, Ph.D. personal statements, C.V.s, and blog posts. Writing sessions include the mechanics of writing, as well as the subtleties. The most valuable topics for graduate level writing and career building: develop your 'voice' for formal and informal contexts; incorporate sources via paraphrasing, summary, direct quote; learn techniques to organize your ideas, develop your argument, and keep readers' attention.
Career
Apply our speaking and writing techniques to mock informational and behavioral interviews, networking practice, cover letters, and bios. Career sessions can include any stage of interview or job talk preparation.
Communication Strategy
Develop preparation techniques and strategies to get the most from advisor meetings, benefit from networking events, manage group dynamics, persuade in cross-cultural contexts, request personal references, correct misconceptions with diplomacy, and code-switch for listeners and contexts. Have a challenge outside this sampling? Schedule a Zoom session