Planning for Luck – Career Planning Resources for ABDs and PhDs

Graduate Student? Postdoc? Or Mentor to Graduate Students and Postdocs?

Each Spring Semester specialists from campus Career Centers and academic staff within the Preparing Future Faculty Program join with the Graduate School to offer a week-long Career Planning workshop series for graduate students and postdocs plotting career possibilities and about to enter into job searching processes. While several hundred participants interact with speakers at these late afternoon sessions, as many can access a given year’s presentations only through virtual access.

To those ends, speakers have made it possible for the Graduate School to create a Career Week web page to house presentation materials and UMConnect recordings of the sessions. Career Week speakers aim to be timely and frank, to address tacit and explicit dimensions of job search processes and politics, and to offer information of use to job applicants as well as their mentors. Topics addressed this year:

Non-academic Job Search
Academic Job Search
Resume Formatting
CV Formatting
Effective Interviewing for Academia and Industry
Job Search Follow Up For International Students
Interviewing Follow Up For International Students

Speakers for each session are identified, and continue to be willing to field questions.

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