Staff and Student Workforce Development

The Staff and Student Workforce Development Interest Groups were formed in 2022 as part of the RCD Nexus project. During the Nexus Day event held July 10, 2022 in conjunction with the PEARC22 conference, there was an all-day workshop to address student and staff workforce development concerns. A summary of this workshop can be found here. It was quickly recognized that there was great overlap between the two groups and therefore they were combined to form a single interest group. 

The focus of these interest groups is to:

  • Support current research computing and data (RCD) professionals
  • Provide information for people looking to become an RCD professional
  • Provide information to institutions looking to establish RCD workforce development programs

These groups will curate information from existing, successful programs in order to develop leading practices for:

  • Staff onboarding, training, and development
  • Student program development

In a recent interest group meeting, participant input resulted in the following word cloud.

Join Us!

Everyone is welcome to join the calls and the mailing lists. Navigate to one or both of the links below depending on your interest(s)and click “Ask to Join”. Please include your name, institution, group/division/etc., and job title in the “Reason for Joining” box.

  • Staff Workforce Development
  • Student Workforce Development

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Monthly Calls

We are happy to announce the official launch of the CaRCC Staff and Student Workforce Development Interest Group calls! Calls will take place the second Tuesday of each month at 11am PT, 12pm MT, 1pm CT, 2pm ET and will generally alternate between staff and student topics. Our January call (1/10) will be a brainstorming discussion on participation at PEARC24: interesting topics for papers, panels, presentations, and tutorial submissions. The February call will bring us back to student workforce development. All are welcome to join both calls, as there is always lots of overlap and common themes.

Upcoming Calls

  • Tuesday, January 10th, 2pm ET / 11am PT
  • Tuesday, February 13th, 2pm ET / 11am PT

Interest Group Co-Chairs

  • Tom Cheatham – University of Utah (student-focused)
  • Brian Haymore – University of Utah (student-focused)
  • Betsy Hillery – Purdue University (student-focused) 
  • Timothy Middelkoop – Internet2 (staff-focused)
  • Claire Mizumoto – University of California San Diego (staff-focused) 

Papers

  • Timothy Middelkoop, Claire Mizumoto, Scotty Strachan, Balamurugan Desinghu, Scott Delinger, Jacob Fosso Tande, Deb McCaffrey, Ann Myatt James, David P. Reddy, and Patrick Schmitz. 2023. Career Phases in Research Computing and Data. In Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC ’23), July 23–27, 2023, Portland, OR, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 6 pages, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1145/3569951.3597562 (accepted for publication)

Previous Call Topics


12/13/22 Student Focused Call video
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1/10/23 Staff Focused Call video
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2/14/23 Student Focused Call video
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3/14/23 Staff Focused Call – Phases of an RCD Career: what are they and how do we define them? video
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4/11/23 Student Focused Call video
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5/09/23 Staff Focused Call – Overlay the RCD HR Framework on the RCD Career phases doc
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7/11/23 Joint Staff and Student Call: RCD Mentoring Working Group Kickoff Call slides
8/8/23 Combination Staff and Student Call : open discussion/recap of the RCD Nexus Day workshop and PEARC Conference doc
9/12/23 Joint Staff and Student Call: Working session on onboarding resources doc
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10/10/23 Impact of Student RCD Workforce Development video
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12/13/23 Onboarding: First Days, First Weeks, First Months doc
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