Career Development

To help you get started in social media research, the UCSB Library's Interdisciplinary Research Collaboratory is offering a series of four workshops during Fall 2016 to provide an orientation to tools, techniques, and considerations for working with Twitter data.

The Graduate Division, in partnership with the Division of Student Affairs, is currently accepting applications for a new position, the International Peer Advisor, to begin employment in Fall 2016 and run through Spring 2017. The priority application deadline is Tuesday, October 11.

What if you had the opportunity to talk about your research any way you wanted to? What is it about your research that motivates you to get up every morning (even on weekends) and go in to the lab, the library, or your field site? At Lunch & Learn, we want to know!

Whether you’re finishing revisions on your dissertation or writing your first seminar paper, come write alongside your fellow grad students in the Graduate Writers' Room!

Whether you have a letter you're working on or are just thinking about writing a letter, this workshop is for you. All UCSB graduate students and postdocs are welcome, but enrollment is limited to 15 per workshop.

Are you one of those people that has a pretty clear sense of what you don’t want in a job but have a hard time figuring out what you do want? This workshop will cover how the career development process can help you figure out the next steps to finding a career that’s right for you!

As part of its fall series on preparing for the academic job market, the Graduate ​Student Resource Center will host a workshop on crafting a compelling CV for academic positions.

The Graduate Division is committed to providing quality programming to graduate students, and we have a lot in store for this academic year! Check out our programming overview and make a point to set aside time for your own professional development this year.

The TA Development Program is ​now accepting applications for their 2016-17 TA Video Consultant positions. TA Video Consultants serve as peer consultants to Teaching Assistants (TAs) in a spectrum of UCSB departments.

The National Science Foundation Division of Graduate Education will be hosting a webinar this Monday, September 19th from 6:00 AM - 10:00 AM PST (9:00 AM - 1:00 PM ET) focused on Inventing the Way Forward: Graduate Education for the STEM Workforce.

SciTrek ​provides on-site resources for students, practicing teachers, and teachers in training to cover required grade-level standards and processes that form the basis of all evidence-based approaches to understanding our world. They are holding an information session on September 26.

The Graduate Student Resource Center is hosting a workshop on writing a​ diversity statement for an academic position on Monday, September 19. The workshop is open to all UCSB graduate students and postdocs.

Collaborate at UCSB is looking to hire a tech-savvy and service-oriented graduate student for their Instructional Design Assistant position.

Do you have strong fluency in more than one language? Versatile Ph.D. will host a free AMA-style panel discussion for humanities and social science Ph.D.s on Careers in Language Translation from September 19-23.

The Graduate Student Association (GSA) has a brand new website. Including information on awards, funding, resources, and social events -- all in an easily navigable new design!