Graduate Student Resources
Empowering Success
Know Yourself
Ask yourself:
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What are you good at doing?
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These are your skills.
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What do you like to do?
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These are your interests.
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What is important to you?
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These are your values.
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Career assessments give you language to articulate your skills, interests and values.
Recommended assessments:
Skills Inventory
What skills do you have:
- What skills did you gain from your undergraduate education, work and life experiences?
- What are your transferrable skills outside of your discipline-specific knowledge?
What are the common skills needed in your interest area(s)?
- Look at a variety of job descriptions to understand the scope of knowledge and transferable skills needed.
- Use LinkedIn to do a skills assessment on yourself.
- Use alumni and your specific degree as filters to find job titles and skill lists.
Career Planning
Imagine Ph.D.A career exploration and planning tool for the humanities and social sciences.
A career planning tool for Ph.D. students and postdocs in STEM.
A resource to help Ph.D.s leverage their education in meaningful careers. Login using your o-key credentials.
A resource to help masters-level students leverage their education in meaningful careers. Login using your o-key credentials.
Academic Job Search
During your academic job search, it's important for you to:
- Build relationships in your field through faculty members, professional conferences and other networking opportunities.
- Submit research articles for publication and present at conferences.
- Gain experience by writing grants and pursuing other awards.
- Volunteer on committees, collaborate with faculty in other departments and engage in other service activities with the university or community.
Industry Job Search
Being proactive and looking for job opportunities in various ways will ultimately give you greater results. There are an abundance of opportunities in our society, but that doesn't mean the job search is easy. It takes perseverance, advanced preparation and resilience.
You can attend upcoming career fairs, networking nights, connection sessions and workshops to make connections and discover the industry for you.
If you know what you are looking for, you are more likely to find it!