Job Market Workshop: Designing Your Future

Catalog description

Focuses on the professional training of graduate students who pursue an academic or alt-ac (alternative academic) job. The material enables students to learn more about their professional opportunities and improve their chances on the job market. In a workshop format, some of the professionalization skills may include conference presentations, increasing professional digital presence, using job search tools, applying for internships and postdocs, writing job letters and grant proposals, managing stress, preparing for interviews, interviewing, presenting job talks and teaching demonstrations, and creating work/life balance.