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Posted 18 November 2008 - 01:35 PM
For those of you who have research positions while attending school, how did you get it? Sorry if there is a thread about this, but I didn't see any. I want one but I don't know how to go about e-mailing, etc. etc. Any help would be great...
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Posted 18 November 2008 - 01:55 PM
QUOTE (M0NSTER* @ Nov 18 2008, 04:35 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
For those of you who have research positions while attending school, how did you get it? Sorry if there is a thread about this, but I didn't see any. I want one but I don't know how to go about e-mailing, etc. etc. Any help would be great...
A couple of my friends got their research position by going to their counselor or going to this thing we call "career and internship fare" where companies are looking for internship and professor are looking for research assistants. Find out if your school is having something similar , if you don't know where to look I would say go to your counselor or go to "Career Center" if your school has one.
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Posted 18 November 2008 - 02:52 PM
I am a research assistant for a professor in the Centre for 19th century french. I postulated for 5 positions advertised on the work-study website.
Since I am in korean studies but cant yet speak and write fluently in korean, two professors told me they couldnt take me. However, I anticipated the thing and had applied to the french department. The prof needed a native french speaker so she gave me the job. And now I'm working as research assistant about 5 hours a week only (could get more but no time).
So from my experience I would say go see (if they have one) your university's work-study positions, usually available during september and october. Then you apply to those positions you have something it takes. For example, if you speak chine. check professors that do research in chin. history (well if you can read classical chin lol). But such positions do not necessarily need to be done in sept. or octob. If you message specific professors and ask them if they have a position open it might work. Just make sure you have something they want. Usually a language ability is quite useful, just like french in my case~~
hehe I hope you one soon ^^
Since I am in korean studies but cant yet speak and write fluently in korean, two professors told me they couldnt take me. However, I anticipated the thing and had applied to the french department. The prof needed a native french speaker so she gave me the job. And now I'm working as research assistant about 5 hours a week only (could get more but no time).
So from my experience I would say go see (if they have one) your university's work-study positions, usually available during september and october. Then you apply to those positions you have something it takes. For example, if you speak chine. check professors that do research in chin. history (well if you can read classical chin lol). But such positions do not necessarily need to be done in sept. or octob. If you message specific professors and ask them if they have a position open it might work. Just make sure you have something they want. Usually a language ability is quite useful, just like french in my case~~
hehe I hope you one soon ^^
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