GEM Fellowship 2022 Cycle

[Low Calorie Sweetner]

1 hour ago, IGenina said:

*** TIPS on securing a corporate sponsor***

I just secured a corporate sponsorship by a national lab yesterday! Here is the strategy I followed, thanks to many folks on this forum! (please start this process early)

1. I put together a list of companies/national labs I'm interested in

2. I searched the list of GEM fellows from the previous year or two for fellows who interned at these companies/labs of interest

3. I cold emailed these fellows either on Linkedin, or found their email address from the people's directory of their current institute/university. In my email/linkedin message, I said that i'm a prospective GEM fellow and asked them about the point of contact for GEM at the company/lab they interned at - and mentioned that I want to reach out personally to the GEM rep and introduce myself as a prospective GEM fellow, etc

4. Usually the point of contact is an HR or recruitment person (i'll call them GEM Reps) and they are also very well connected to the scientists (at the national labs that I pursued). I reached out to the GEM reps at each company/lab, introduced myself, mentioned the research directions and scientists that I'm interested in (in case of a national lab) or the department/team/technology/product/process/area that i'm interested in (in case of a company), tied that back to my personal career goals and professional plans etc. Most of the GEM reps got back to me, some forwarded my email to the scientists (at national labs) or hiring managers (at companies), some suggested I reach out to the scientists myself (which I then did), and some said that they already selected all their GEM reps for this cycle. The few scientists I reached out to got back to me relatively fast.

5. I interviewed with a few scientists at one of the national labs on Monday and they sent me an offer via the GEM portal on Friday.

6. I emailed all the GEM reps at the schools I got admitted to, in order to let them know that I secured a corporate/employer sponsor and asked to be considered for their funding options. Will update this post later after I hear back from the schools. 

GOODLUCK TO Y'ALL!

 

This is great news! Congratulations. Proof that simply "being a GEM candidate" is not always enough. GEM connects us to a vast network, but if one is willing to go the extra mile, favorable results will come.

[FlamingSenchi]

has anyone else been accepted to carnegie mellon's college of engineering? i emailed the gem rep asking whether or not the university would sponsor me and so far no reply... 

[cheminator612]

On 4/3/2022 at 10:42 PM, IGenina said:

*** TIPS on securing a corporate sponsor***

I just secured a corporate sponsorship by a national lab yesterday! Here is the strategy I followed, thanks to many folks on this forum! (please start this process early)

1. I put together a list of companies/national labs I'm interested in

2. I searched the list of GEM fellows from the previous year or two for fellows who interned at these companies/labs of interest

3. I cold emailed these fellows either on Linkedin, or found their email address from the people's directory of their current institute/university. In my email/linkedin message, I said that i'm a prospective GEM fellow and asked them about the point of contact for GEM at the company/lab they interned at - and mentioned that I want to reach out personally to the GEM rep and introduce myself as a prospective GEM fellow, etc

4. Usually the point of contact is an HR or recruitment person (i'll call them GEM Reps) and they are also very well connected to the scientists (at the national labs that I pursued). I reached out to the GEM reps at each company/lab, introduced myself, mentioned the research directions and scientists that I'm interested in (in case of a national lab) or the department/team/technology/product/process/area that i'm interested in (in case of a company), tied that back to my personal career goals and professional plans etc. Most of the GEM reps got back to me, some forwarded my email to the scientists (at national labs) or hiring managers (at companies), some suggested I reach out to the scientists myself (which I then did), and some said that they already selected all their GEM reps for this cycle. The few scientists I reached out to got back to me relatively fast.

5. I interviewed with a few scientists at one of the national labs on Monday and they sent me an offer via the GEM portal on Friday.

6. I emailed all the GEM reps at the schools I got admitted to, in order to let them know that I secured a corporate/employer sponsor and asked to be considered for their funding options. Will update this post later after I hear back from the schools. 

GOODLUCK TO Y'ALL!

 

IG! love to hear that it worked out for you and that you secured an employer sponsor! 

[FlamingSenchi]

On 4/6/2022 at 11:02 PM, FlamingSenchi said:

has anyone else been accepted to carnegie mellon's college of engineering? i emailed the gem rep asking whether or not the university would sponsor me and so far no reply... 

Never mind on this. I checked my portal and my university status changed to "Willing to admit as a gem fellow."

[Jholidayss]

Hey, Does anyone know how an applicant without an employer sponser should go about trying to become the Associate or University fellow? If they reach out to the university point of contact, wjhat would you reccomend they say? (Asking for a friend)

 

[Low Calorie Sweetner]

Hey, everyone. I am ecstatic to announce that I will be attending USC for graduate studies in the Viterbi school of Astronautical Engineering! I also have The Aerospace Corporation as my employer sponsor! I can finally take a sigh of relief. Reach out if you would like to connect!

[fellowlearner]

Same thing. I will be interning at MIT Lincoln Lab for the next two summers and would love to network! Feel free to PM me!

[IGenina]

tl;dr - found myself on a 'User management' page listing everyone applied to/awarded GEM.. wth? how did I end up there?

Hi all, something really weird happened, I had an old browser tab where I had logged into my eGEM account a few weeks ago and never used it since then. Today I clicked on that tab on find myself viewing a page called "user management" with a massive table containing hundreds of entries, including current and previous GEM fellows, reps, etc.. any clue how I ended up there and did anyone have the same experience?

[Purduefellow]

Do you per chance remember the link, it would be cool to see how many iterations my application went through lol…