Career Development

Grad students, need help managing your research? UCSB Library is offering a workshop on Zotero, a popular open source citation manager. Learn how Zotero can help you efficiently collect and organize your research, create bibliographies, collaborate with your colleagues, streamline your research process, and more. This workshop will be offered twice in May. Sign up today to reserve your spot.

The UCSB Carpentry team are hosting two workshops on data carpentry: Introduction to R and Introduction to Geospatial Raster and Vector Data in R. Both workshops are example-driven, containing short tutorials that alternate with hands-on practical exercises. Read on to learn more!

UCSB's Office of Undergraduate Education is seeking a paid graduate student assistant to work on the UCSB Data-Enhanced Teaching and Learning (DETAiL) Project. DETAiL seeks to provide faculty with actionable data and resources to help them implement asset-based teaching. The goal of the platform is to facilitate teaching practices to improve equity in courses, especially large courses. The appointment runs from June 21-September 18, 2021.

The Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) is offering three paid, fully virtual summer internships this summer in the areas of Broadening Participation in Graduate Education, Communications and Corporate Relations, and Public Policy and Government Affairs. Any master’s or doctoral student currently enrolled at a CGS member institution (UCSB qualifies) is eligible to apply. Last date to apply is May 4 and internships begin June 21.

If you are considering entering the job market any time soon, a complete and compelling LinkedIn profile is a must-have. Join this workshop on May 11th to learn how to maximize this tool in order to look for jobs, network with potential employers, and connect with others in the professional domain.

Bakersfield College is seeking applications for their Faculty Diversification Fellowship. Candidates must be enrolled in the last semester of a qualified STEM graduate program, be a recent graduate of the program, Ph.D. candidates pursuing a STEM path, or have attained postdoctoral standing in a qualified STEM field. Read on to learn more!

Reduce your anxiety about finances by attending this workshop on May 5th to learn basic terminology, tools, and plans for budgeting. Leave with tools to create a plan on how to manage your graduate income. RVSP today!

Community colleges account for over 40% of higher education in the U.S. and most of them are eager to attract highly qualified PhDs. Join us for a panel discussion on May 4 where experts will discuss the range of opportunities that these schools have to offer. Beth Au from the California Community Colleges Registry will also be available for one-on-one meetings with UCSB students from May 3-14.

The RCSGD is seeking a Graduate Assistant for Education Initiatives and a Graduate Student Assistant for the 2021-22 school year. These positions contribute to the RCSGD mission of facilitating the intersectional inclusion and representation of the identities, experiences, and concerns of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, intersex, and asexual (LGBTQIA+) students, staff, faculty, alumni, and community members at UCSB. Students at any point in their graduate programs are welcome to apply by May 3, 2021 at 9am. Read on for more info.

Princeton University invites you to participate in their weeklong (April 26 -30) GradFUTURES Forum. The GradFUTURES Forum accelerates connections among and between graduate students, faculty, staff, alumni, and leaders from the academic, public, and private sectors. The Forum prepares graduate students to make meaningful contributions within diverse fields of endeavor in ways that expand knowledge, accelerate discovery, and serve humanity.

Are you in the middle stages of your dissertation and running into roadblocks? Do you need some new strategies and habits to help you finish up? Then apply for the first session of the 2021 Dissertation Write-In! The application deadline is Friday, May 7.

Are you an international graduate student thinking about a non-academic career in the U.S.? Do you find it daunting to figure out how to start the job process, where to look for jobs, and how to know whether a particular job will assist you with visa and residency issues? Attend this workshop on May 3rd, co-hosted by Vash Doshi (UCSB's Graduate Career Peer) and Julia McClenon (UCSB's Graduate International Peer), to learn more about the basics of a non-academic career job search for international students.

As an international Gaucho, you bring unique experiences to the UCSB community. Come join Julia McClenon, International Peer Advisor, to learn how you can purposefully tap into your international identity in the classroom and in work environments to showcase these parts of you as as the powerful asset it is. You are valuable for your internationality, so come learn how to highlight it!

Employers are interested in more than your degree or field of research, they care about how your qualifications match what they need. Graduate students need to show their experience effectively so that employers will listen. Join us on April 28th for this workshop where we will teach you how to talk about your work in order to demonstrate that you have transferable and relevant skills for the job.

This workshop on April 28th will teach participants what the various modes of revision are. From there, it will explore assorted comments students receive on their writing and connect those comments to the appropriate mode of revision. Finally, we will present strategies and exercises for how to engage each type of revision so that students can hone their revision skills. RSVP today!