Thinking about your long-term goals and future career plans? The OITE houses a Career Services Center to help you plan for a satisfying career once you complete your training at NIH. Our services include:- Help in exploring career options.
- Free administration and interpretation of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) to help you analyze your workingstyle and personality type (not available for Summer Interns).
- Free administration and interpretation of the Strong Interest Inventory to help you identify career interests (not available for Summer Interns).
- Exploration of your skills, values, and interests as they relate to careers.
- Help investigating various career options.
- Assistance with informational interviewing and the development of networking skills.
- CV, resume, and cover letter review.
- Mock interviews.
- Advice on graduate and professional schools.
- Job search assistance, including strategizing on how to land your ideal job as well as resources for identifying possible employers.
- Help with interpersonal skills such as getting along with a difficult mentor or being more assertive.
Students and trainees who begin working with career counselors early in their training have an advantage over those who wait.
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Career Services Staff
Elaine M. Diggs, Career Counselor, NCC, NCCC
Julie Gold, MSW, Leadership and Professional Development Coach
William Higgins, PhD, Pre-professional Advisor
Anne Kirchgessner, Career Counselor, LCPC, NCC
Denise Saunders, PhD, Career Counselor
Locations: Career Services Staff are located in Building 2 on the main NIH Bethesda campus to provide services to trainees (Postbacs through Postdocs). Career counselors visit the Baltimore campus, NCI Frederick, and NIEHS in North Carolina on a regular basis. [On-site services are not available on a regular basis to trainees at Rocky Mountain Laboratories or to NIDDK Trainees in Phoenix and NICHD trainees in Detroit; trainees at those sites can interact with counselors via phone.]
The OITE Career Library is also housed on the second floor of Building 2 in Bethesda.
Sign up for an Appointment: To schedule an appointment, please contact Kathryn Foisie at foisiek@od.nih.gov or 301.594.9339.
What to expect when you see a Career Counselor ...
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