Career Development

Are you feeling like this just wasn't the year to be truly productive? Are you feeling isolated from colleagues? Are you hoping to turn things around with your writing this summer? Read on for tips from the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (NCFDD), an independent professional development, training, and mentoring community. Membership (free for UCSB students!) provides several forms of professional support to help combat common problems academics face - find out more here.

We invite you to join us in a career chat on July 15th to share your concerns, fears, and understandings for how COVID-19 directly impacts your career decisions. We will share resources for how to find jobs and discuss how you can make the most of your time quarantining.

You have convinced the hiring committee that you are a strong candidate for your dream job through a polished cover letter and C.V. But what about the core of your scholarship? Where do you see your research in five years? This workshop on July 15th will explore the research statement and the five-year plan: what they are, what they look like, and which one is right for you.

Join us in this webinar/conversation/processing space on July 12th to discuss mind, body, and soul healing and what this moment brings up for us and to us. This space was created with BIPOC graduate students in mind, and it is intended to be an interactive space for perspectives and processing amidst a global pandemic.

Graduate students are invited to attend and present their research at City of Hope’s 4th Annual Biomedical Research Graduate Student Symposium, to be held via Zoom on August 28, 2020. The submission deadline for abstracts is July 31, 2020 and presenters may be eligible for monetary prizes. Read on for more details!

How do you distill your entire academic and professional career into one document? You may be the best candidate for a job, but if you do not have a well-organized C.V., then you're likely to get lost in the application pile. Come to this workshop on July 8th and learn what the major sections of a C.V. include and how to tailor your C.V. to specific positions.

Join us for our Finding Funding Workshop on July 7th! We'll cover UCSB financial resources, external funding, and how to find them -- all geared especially for international grad students.

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 July 2nd 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.

Come learn about how the body and brain work -- or don't work -- together to affect your overall well-being. Designed to be a safe space particularly for international students and post-docs. This is the first session in a three-part workshop series "Embodied Consciousness" - attend one or all, and shift your embodiment paradigm!

Arguably the most important document when applying for any academic job is the cover letter. To kick off the Academic Job Market Writing Success Series, we will begin with cover letters: what they are, what they look like, and how to write them for the job that you are applying for. Participants will learn what the major sections of a cover letter entail and how to tailor a cover letter to specific positions.

The Graduate Simulation Seminar Series (GS^3) is back for Summer 2020! They are offering a 10-week seminar program featuring talks from a diverse set of graduate students and/or postdocs who use simulation in their research, representing a wide swath of academic disciplines across UCSB. Interested in presenting? The best presentations by graduate students and postdocs will be awarded prizes. Read on for more info about the series and how you can present.

Live chat a movie with us! Join us on Friday, June 26th at 7 p.m. We will be watching The Half of It on Netflix and chatting along to create a feeling of almost being together.

Interested in a career beyond the academy, and want to learn more about the essentials of crafting it? Join these professional development webinars from Beyond the Professoriate for a jump start. They are free to join and also available to watch on replays. Advance registration is required.

Dr. Carlos Nash, UCSB's Director of Graduate Diversity Programs, is hosting coffee breaks via Zoom every Wednesday of Summer Quarter at 9am. The breaks are a virtual offering open to all graduate students to replace his weekly outreach meeting with graduate students at GSA’s Wednesday Bagel Hour. All topics are welcome.

Still looking for funding? Or planning ahead for 2020-2021? Attend the next Finding Funding Workshop on June 23 and learn about campus and external funding.