HAP 786: Workshop in Health Informatics

Lecture: Industry Contacts

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Overview

Where do you want to work? Slides► Narrated Slides► Video► YouTube►

Objectives

• Predict industry employment needs
• Create a network of industry contacts
• Use your work to get noticed by organizations

Assignment

Help your instructor to introduce you to people who can help you in your project and eventually over time hire you.  To assist, we ask you to do the following tasks:

1. Assess Industry Need. Select 3 organizations that you are interested to work for. This requires examination of organizations that are hiring by looking at their LinkedIn (r). Identify 2 people within each organization that might be interest in hiring you.  This may require looking at PubMed and seeing who in these organization has published about a topic related to your projects. International students should select their organizations from the H1-B Employer database and then identify the individuals who should be contacted through LinkedIn.  H1-B Database►
   
   
2. Get Contact Information. Obtain the email by searching on the web or in PubMed, or in contact list of your instructors. The instructors LinkedIn (r) site can be useful to you as there are many individuals who are in the instructor's contact list.  If the person is not on the instructor's contact list, ask the instructor to add the person.  Then obtain the email from the instructor.  If you cannot find the exact email, guess it by comparing it to emails that you do find for someone else in the organization.  You can use tools such as: https://hunter.io/find to locate an email address of an individual in an organization.  You need to know the first name and last name of the person you want to find. 
   • Vivian-Jo Yu on finding a preceptor Slides►
     
     
3. Letter of Introduction from Your Instructor. Your instructor will write to the people you want to contact and introduce you to them.  You need to draft the letter that your instructor sends. Show the draft letter to your instructor before sending. Do not send the email without instructor approval. Draft email► YouTube► 
   
   
4. Send the Draft Letter.  Once approved, send the draft letter.  Do not attach this draft letter to your email, instead copy the content of the draft letter into your email.  Copy and paste the entire letter into your email. Include the logo and the write-up post the signature line.  Do not change any aspect of the letter. Include the instructors in your email, so the instructor can follow-up with responses to the email. In the past some students have not been able to follow these instructions, please pay attention to the process.  If the email bounces, check for the correct email and solve the problem.