Career Development

The Center for Spatial Studies (spatial@ucsb) is looking for intrepid presenters—students, faculty, staff, friends—to give inspirational, educational, or just plain entertaining three-minute talks related to geography or space (i.e., just about anything). Sign up by February 21.

Join Instructional Development at the inaugural Teaching & Learning Excellence Series: TALES Live!, which highlights compelling stories of creativity, inspiration, and engagement in UCSB teaching. The February 28 event will feature Dr. ​Helene Gardner from the Department of Environmental Studies.

Attention STEM graduate students! CSEP is looking to hire several students for industry and entrepreneurship assessment projects beginning this quarter to interview CA-based industry and startup professionals.

Learn how you can join the innovative minds at Intel Corporation by attending their information session and recruitment tables.

Sign up for the Ph.D. & Master's Virtual Career Fair to interact in real-time with top-notch employers exclusively seeking candidates with advanced degrees. Free to Ph.D.s, Master's, postdocs, and alumni.

Many Ph.D. students feel that their degree will be their main qualification when they enter the non-academic job market, but having relevant job experience is just as important. This workshop will cover how to pursue relevant work experience alongside your graduate work.

During an interview, you need to be confident, articulate, and able to quickly think on your feet. Luckily, these are skills that you can practice in advance. Instead of freaking out the week before your interview, ​join us on February 24 to get a leg up on the competition.

Attention UCSB faculty, now is the time to nominate students for special distinctions related to graduate student commencement! The deadline for both of these opportunities is April 12, 2017.

Attention Grad Slam participants! Want to get a leg up on the competition? Join us for an interactive 2-hour workshop designed to help you boil down the basic ideas of your research, ​package them in an accessible way, and ​present them​ confidently and concisely.

Led by Kevin Moore of the UCSB Writing Program, this workshop will explore the all-too-familiar "writer's block," including the myths and realities of writer's block, what causes it, ​and ​effective strategies to manage and ​get beyond block as science writers.

Want to capture the reader's attention and encapsulate your research concisely to win a fellowship? Learn how at the Introduction and Problem Statement workshop led by Writing Peer Kyle Crocco.

Videos are one of the most powerful and popular tools to share information, so why not make one ​about your research? This workshop led by Jai Ranganathan ​​will teach you how to produce videos with compelling storylines about your research. All you need is a smartphone!

Want to build the communication skills that scientists and other technical professionals need to express complex ideas to the general public, experts in other fields, and their peers? Then check out the 5th annual ComSciCon National Workshop happening in Cambridge, MA!

If you like numbers and want to affect important strategy and policy decisions, take a look at Pacific Consulting Group (PCG). PCG is a boutique firm, headquartered in Silicon Valley, providing a range of corporate and government clients with primary research, data analysis, and consulting.

At any moment, you should be able to explain your mission statement, research goals, or entrepreneurial ideas in a concise and captivating way. Join us on February 13 for this interactive workshop led by Bri McWhorter from Activate to Captivate.