Career Development

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!

The UCSB Library’s newly opened Interdisciplinary Research Collaboratory is looking to hire three new assistants who can begin work at the start of the fall quarter.

Virginia Tech is hosting the Future Faculty Development Program, an exciting and rewarding two-day event for a small group of doctoral students and post-doctoral scholars interested in pursuing academic careers.

Due to unforeseen circumstances, we must cancel the Finding Funding workshop that was originally scheduled for September 13. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, and we will inform you if we are able to reschedule the workshop in the near future.

The UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center (IHC) seeks 10-12 graduate students with native fluency in Spanish or Mandarin to serve as interpreters at Isla Vista Elementary School during the school’s twice-yearly Parent-Teacher Conference weeks.