CONNECT Luncheon Announcement
This year at the APS Division of Plasma Physics meeting, the Committee for the Concerns Of studeNts aNd Early Career scienTists (CONNECT) will be hosting a Luncheon on Monday, November 17 targeted towards graduate and undergraduate students, with post-doc and early-career scientists additionally encouraged to attend! Registration for the Luncheon must be done in advance, as detailed here: https://engage.aps.org/dpp/meetings/annual-meeting/registration
At the Luncheon, APS Careers Senior Program Manager Dr. Midhat Farooq will showcase the careers landscape available to physics degree holders. Physics degree recipients are highly employable in both the private and public sectors. However, students and early career scientists have uneven access to information on the diverse types of career paths available to them. This talk will provide data on the who, what, and how of physics career paths. This includes providing examples of common job titles, industries commonly seeking out physics degree holders, and highlighting career resources useful for exploring for and applying to jobs. Special emphasis this year will be placed on private industry career opportunities and highlight the physics skills sought after for these roles. The speaker will also provide information on utilizing the APS DPP Job Fair career help desk, and Career Mentoring Fellows as resources for preparing for employment opportunities.
Speaker Bio
Dr. Midhat Farooq is the Careers Senior Program Manager at the American Physical Society. Within this role, she develops career and professional development programs and resources for students and early career physicists. Midhat also organizes programming for students at APS conferences, facilitates career workshops, and manages the APS Career Mentoring Fellows program, through which academic and industry-based physicists receive training on and have the opportunity to mentor the next generation of scientists. Midhat holds a PhD in physics from the University of Michigan, where her research focused on building an optical magnetometer for a particle physics experiment.