Career Development

Spring quarter is well underway. Come write alongside your fellow grad students in the Graduate Writers' Room, featuring comfortable seating, snacks, and the best free coffee on campus! The Writers' Room opens ​Monday, April 24, in Student Resource Building Room 1103.

The Graduate Student Resource Center will be hosting a workshop on writing a research statement for an academic position. We will cover methods of organizing experience, types of content to include, and the tone you should set in your statement.

If you are looking to pursue career opportunities outside of academia, the resume and cover letter are your ticket into that world. This workshop will explore important techniques that will help you expertly craft and strategically target your resume and cover letter.

Campus Advocacy, Resources, & Education (CARE) is hiring a graduate assistant to develop and organize education and prevention programming for the graduate student community and to supervise our undergraduate student staff in their own programming efforts.

Still looking for funding? Or planning ahead for 2017-2018? Attend any of the Finding Funding Workshops this quarter with Funding Peer Advisor Noreen Balos and learn about campus and external funding sources.

Sign up now for the Zurich Enterprise Challenge for a chance to work with corporations such as Coca-Cola and Siemens as well as earning a spot at the Global Risk Management Summit in Edinburgh, Scotland.

If you want to join a dedicated UCSB team to help develop new programs and policies to make our campus more sustainable, then check out the job opportunities with UCSB Sustainability.

Join Yardi Systems, Inc. to learn more about upcoming opportunities and get tips from the experts on how to navigate a career fair.

Check out Instructional Development's spring quarter lineup of workshops aimed at supporting graduate student Teaching Assistants and Teaching Associates. Their first workshop is on Friday, April 7. Space is limited, so be sure to reserve your spot today!

If you're applying for a teaching-focused academic job, you will almost certainly be asked to provide a teaching philosophy statement. So what is it and how do you even begin to describe your own philosophy?

Do you have a passion for influencing public policy? Join Versatile Ph.D. as it hosts an AMA-style discussion panel on Ph.D. Careers in Think Tanks from April 3-7.

From big events to job search strategies to writing support – the Graduate Student Resource Center is here to help you make the spring quarter a success. Check out an overview of our upcoming events!

On March 4, UCSB Crossroads held an interactive event to re-introduce the campus to this interdisciplinary research program and share ideas about ways to improve the program moving forward. The call for Crossroads project proposals is now open through May 19.

Do you ever wish you could talk with employers who only want to speak with graduate students? Well now is your chance! Join us for the first-ever Graduate Student Career Mixer to connect with employers specifically seeking to recruit graduate students and junior scholars for job and internship opportunities.

Join the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in STEM (SACNAS), the Center for Science and Engineering Partnerships (CSEP), and Procore for a panel of industry professionals followed by a wine mixer on Friday, April 7.