Well, just to give you some unusual suggestions, I would want someone with that skill set to work on the following aspects of my job:
Conference organization and design (everything from organizing the poster presentation and board organization to ordering catering to communicating with the speakers to creating the abstract booklet).
There was a man who worked in the library at my graduate university who was the administrative go-to guy for getting your dissertation thesis bound and sent to the right departments/copies placed properly in the library. I always thought that would be a nice job description since all those students would be so damn happy to be talking to you.
A lab manager. Now, you didn't list my kind of basic science as an interest, so I don't know how much this would apply, but the psych program is also constantly running studies that require room and equipment set-up, so. We would have a lab manager doing a lot of the prep work for experiments, organizing specific frozen samples, doing a lot of the paperwork involved in ordering and receiving, and trying to stay a step ahead of the researcher's needs. I would imagine that a social studies experiment would involve signing up and organizing the participants. In my current university, there is a web-based sign-up system, but we all get reminders and study participation eligibility emails. I've usually known lab managers to have a master's in the field, but I'm in a very specialized field.
The administrative departments in general usually have a front man for lecture room sign-ups, organization of announcements, food and drink and any meal planning. These events could always, *always* use someone to solve the problems inherent in the system and make it work better.
In any case, in academia and elsewhere, someone with organizational skills is a blessing. No matter the field.
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Date: 9/25/08 05:38 am (UTC)Conference organization and design (everything from organizing the poster presentation and board organization to ordering catering to communicating with the speakers to creating the abstract booklet).
There was a man who worked in the library at my graduate university who was the administrative go-to guy for getting your dissertation thesis bound and sent to the right departments/copies placed properly in the library. I always thought that would be a nice job description since all those students would be so damn happy to be talking to you.
A lab manager. Now, you didn't list my kind of basic science as an interest, so I don't know how much this would apply, but the psych program is also constantly running studies that require room and equipment set-up, so. We would have a lab manager doing a lot of the prep work for experiments, organizing specific frozen samples, doing a lot of the paperwork involved in ordering and receiving, and trying to stay a step ahead of the researcher's needs. I would imagine that a social studies experiment would involve signing up and organizing the participants. In my current university, there is a web-based sign-up system, but we all get reminders and study participation eligibility emails. I've usually known lab managers to have a master's in the field, but I'm in a very specialized field.
The administrative departments in general usually have a front man for lecture room sign-ups, organization of announcements, food and drink and any meal planning. These events could always, *always* use someone to solve the problems inherent in the system and make it work better.
In any case, in academia and elsewhere, someone with organizational skills is a blessing. No matter the field.