I’m at a very large university and in the past year, I’ve been asked to be on three different career
panels for three different student/postdoc groups. I was
recently on a committee for our departmental retreat and the committee chair
proposed doing yet another one of these career workshops for the students. I tried really hard to convince my colleagues that we could do
something better, because I’ve really come to hate these types of career
panels. Here are some of the reasons.