December 2021 Newsletter ❄

Spotlight Employers

Check out the positions available with our featured employers!

Are you an ambitious, conscientious individual with an unbridled curiosity about psychology, business, and the world in general? Are you inspired by the notion of developing people and helping them use their minds more effectively? If so, MindGym wants to hear from you.

MindGym translates behavioral science principles into a unique set of experiences, products and tools creating company-wide behavior change. For over twenty years, MindGym worked with companies like Coca-Cola, Unilever, Microsoft, Vodafone and Southwest to transform their organizations. Their unique, behavioral science approach sets people up to make better choices every day and equips companies to maximize their human advantage. Over 3 million professionals have taken part in a live MindGym experience and they're just getting started.

If you are a self-starter who has strong analytical skills and intellectual curiosity, CMA wants you!

CMA is a women business enterprise (WBE) business psychology firm offering customized services to a wide range of clients in the St. Louis, Kansas City and Denver areas. CMA provides assessment services, leadership development, coaching, 360° feedback, organizational development, strategic planning services, and more to a wide variety of industries including healthcare, construction, retail, financial, hospitality, manufacturing, and government.

Not only does CMA provide consulting services, but they do so in a way that promotes healthy relationships with clients by emphasizing the people side of business, striking that delicate balance between a best-practices approach and a people-first culture.

Spotlight Postings

Featured Employer!
MindGym
New York / Remote

Solutions Designer
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Featured Employer!
CMA
St. Louis, Kansas City, Denver, Remote

Consultant
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True Synergy, Inc.
Anywhere

Organizational Development Coordinator
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Palo Alto Networks
Anywhere

Selection & Assessment Specialist (Contractor)
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Saint Mary's University
Halifax Nova Scotia

Assistant or Associate Professor
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BIOP Scholarship
Now Accepting Applications!

BIOP is seeking scholarship applications to recognize and encourage the achievements of full-time graduate students pursuing a degree in industrial and organizational psychology.

There are three award opportunities for students who have contributed to BIOP's mission, vision and goals. Each of the scholarships have a specific purpose and selection criteria.

For more information on the scholarship details and criteria, click the link below.

BIOP Scholarship Details

BIOP Membership Experience Survey

We want to hear from you! BIOP would like to know about your experience as a member of the organization and understand if there is anything that needs improvement. Please take a moment to fill out our membership experience survey! This survey should only take about five minutes of your time to complete.

Please contact Nathan Price, the MESC Lead, at nkprice@umn.edu or BlacksinIOpsych@gmail.com for any questions or concerns.

Thank you for your help in making the Blacks in I/O community better, your feedback is greatly appreciated.

Membership Survey

Organizational Science Summer Institute (OSSI)

OSSI is a three-day research-intensive program that is sponsored by the Organizational Science PhD program at University of North Carolina Charlotte, every summer. The goal is to foster undergraduate interest and ability in research and scholarship and help students to develop a competitive application for graduate school.

OSSI targets underrepresented racial/ethnic minority (e.g., Black/African-American, Hispanic/Latino, American Indian or Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander) undergraduates who are interested in pursuing graduate school in topics related to work and organizations.

Specifically, the program primarily seeks out students with an interest in organizational communication, management, I/O psychology, and organizational sociology (although we are open to other disciplines that align with an interest in organizational phenomena).

When is OSSI?

May 15-18th, 2022

When is the application deadline?

All student applications must be submitted online by Jan 31st, 2022!

OSSI Objectives and Activities:

The mission of OSSI is to help diversify the pipeline for graduate education. To reach this mission:

OSSI students will work with faculty and graduate student mentors to gain hands-on research experience through a week-long research project

Participants will:

Receive free GRE test preparation and resources
Collaborate with leading scholars and practitioners from various disciplines
Receive training on topics related to graduate school including:
- How to apply for graduate school (creating personal statements, etc.)
- Learning about life as a graduate student
- Presenting research effectively

Note: The institute provides participants with a monetary stipend, travel support, and free food and housing.

If your interested, click the link below for more info on how to apply and application requirements.

Questions? Contact Karoline Summerville (ksummerv@uncc.edu).

Learn More

Virtual Industrial/Organizational Psychology Workshop

Join Your Career Kickstart as they host a virtual workshop for Industrial Organizational Psychology practitioners who want to take their career to the next level!

For those of you struggling to brand yourself as an I/O psychology practitioner, this is for you! We will discuss how to develop your I/O skills in your current role, how to create your personal brand, and how to advance in your I/O career.

This workshop is for:

Undergraduate students interested in I/O Psychology
I/O Psychology Graduate Students
Professionals transitioning into I/O
Those who are currently doing I/O work but don't know how to translate the importance of their skills to non-I/O practitioners
Mid-Career I/O practitioners who want to advance in their career

All registrants will receive 10-day access to the workshop's replay!

Tickets are just $40. Please click the link below for registration information.

Career Kickstart Virtual Workshop

Family Care Grant for the 2022 SIOP Conference

SIOP WIN is proud to announce the brand new Family Care Grant for the 2022 SIOP conference. We will award 20 grants ($500 each) for caregiving support.

Please consider applying and helping us spread the word!

The application is live under Family Care Grant:
https://www.siop.org/Foundation/Awards/Conference-Awards

Eligibility includes:

Be a current SIOP member
Be a caregiver, defined as a person providing care to another person (e.g., children, elders, persons with disabilities) or a person who requires caregiving support at the conference (e.g., members with disabilities)
Be the only caregiver in your family applying for the grant funds
Report facing some financial difficulty attending the conference in-person due to financial caregiving needs
Plan to travel to the SIOP 2022 Annual Conference in Seattle

Deadline: January 31st, 2022

Survey Participation Requested!

Our friends need our help!! Emma Edoga and Elizabeth Jenkins, I/O doctoral students at Texas A&M and members of Blacks in I/O are currently recruiting Black women participants for a study to understand their workplace experiences.

If you meet the criteria and want to support, click the link below.
Questions? Contact Elizabeth Jenkins or Emma Edoga.

Link to Survey

IPAC 2022 Conference Volunteers Needed!

The International Personnel Assessment Council (IPAC) needs volunteers for the 2022 Conference Planning Committee! Joining the committee is a great way to get involved, network with other applied HR selection and assessment professionals, and have fun! No previous IPAC or conference planning experience needed! Our 2022 conference will be in-person in sunny San Diego, July 17-20 at the Westin San Diego Gaslamp Quarter. Volunteers will have the opportunity to lead or support major conference planning activities. Specifically, you can support any of the following committees: Program, Host, Social, Marketing, Registration, Logistics, or Vendor/Sponsor. If you’d like more information about these committees, please email Shannon Kobus at Shannon.kobus@monster.com.

Join our Instagram Takeover series as we dive into the exciting careers in I/O Psychology. If you have a career in I/O Psychology (i.e., academia, internal/external consulting, etc.) and want to share a day in the life experience with our community, let us know!

The BIOP Merch Store is now live!!
Grab some gear with the official BIOP logo. What a great way to represent and stay connected to your favorite organization :)

Visit the website today to purchase your BIOP swag!!!
(To view merch, visit website from desktop browser)

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Spotlight Member of the Month
Diversify Your Network!

Tiffany Day is a credentialing specialist and practitioner with over 13 years’ experience managing assessment planning, development, and validation projects for government agencies, private sector clients, credentialing organizations, and professional associations. Her span of expertise covers developing, deploying, and managing all aspects of the certification strategy (program planning, job/practice analysis, test/assessment development, form assembly, scoring, and reporting), and ensuring programs’ compliance with best practices and standards for assessment-based certificate programs and accreditation. Currently, she works as a Senior Research Scientist at the Human Resources Research Organization (HumRRO), a nonprofit organization dedicated to developing and applying state-of-the-art assessment solutions and technologies to solve the real-world challenges facing private and public sector organizations and educational institutions.

Tiffany holds a M.S. in Educational Research, with concentration in assessment, evaluation, and testing, from George Mason University, and a B.S. in Psychology from Virginia Commonwealth University. She is a member of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), the Institute for Credentialing Excellence (ICE), and Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. In June 2021, she joined BIOP and is proud to be associated with a group of professionals committed to educating people about what IO psychologists do, and increasing visibility and representation of Blacks (and other minorities) in the growing IO field!

Congrats Tiffany!

To learn more about Tiffany and see past Spotlight Members, click the link below.

Spotlight Member Series

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