Career Development

This workshop will explore important techniques that will help you expertly craft and strategically target your resume and cover letter so you can get over the first application hurdle and on to an interview!

The USLS is a week-long Leadership Conference on social development for young leaders from all over the world. The purpose is to instill a sense of social responsibility as well as cultivate the attributes of selfless giving among our emerging world leaders.

Join NBBTP for a short, casual, VIRTUAL information session with Q&A, for UCSB graduate students, PhD candidates, post-docs, and alumni preparing for --or already pursuing-- a biosafety career in a high containment facility.

Novacoast is an IT Professional Services and Software Development firm, headquartered in Santa Barbara and offices nation-wide with practice areas in information security, including Internet security, identity management, desktop management, open source, Mac, and enterprise application development.

Join Handshake for a YouTube Live tour of Handshake HQ! You’ll get a behind-the-scenes look at their space, including their beautiful view of the San Francisco skyline. Melissa Buckley, Office Experience Coordinator, will share how Handshake's office reflects their mission and values, and how the team collaborates to make an impact on democratizing access to opportunity for students.

Come join UCSB Health and Wellness and learn how to improve your sleep! Build your own sleep kit full of helpful sleep supplies and learn some night-changing sleep tips.

Fostering student participation is key to making discussion sections both effective and fun. We will discuss how you can prepare yourself, and your students, for lively discussions. These practical approaches can help students engage with the material, become more motivated scholars, and increase student interaction.

One of the most important documents you can prepare in your academic job search is the cover letter. Come get tips and feedback on how to write an effective one! Space is limited for this workshop, so please RSVP.

Passed up a prior funding workshop? Need a refresher? Have new questions? Come ​to our workshop on May 8! You'll get clarity on funding-related questions ranging from admissions, external fellowships, project money, and research grants as well as where to get answers for each type of scenario. Snacks will be provided.

Lumentum Operations, a market-leading manufacturer of innovative optical and photonic products, is seeking 60 motivated interns who are interested in ganging valuable hands-on experience in their fields of interest. ​Enjoy a casual meal and chat with Lumentum hiring managers and executives as they share information about life at Lumentum and ​their opportunities.

To be successful in your job search as an international student, you need to plan strategically, and be knowledgeable regarding immigration regulations that affect employment eligibility based on visa status. Join this career info session to learn about specialized career resources, job search strategies, professional preparations, and get insights from OISS and Career Services representatives.

So you're a researcher? Chances are then that you are pretty busy. This May 14 workshop, led by Hugh Kearns of ThinkWell, will describe the most useful strategies that thousands of researchers have found helpful in balancing the many demands on their time.

What can you do to make completing a research-focused higher degree easier for your students and for you? The Graduate Division invites all advisors (such as faculty members and postdoctoral researchers) to join for a workshop led by Hugh Kearns to ​teach the most useful secrets researchers have discovered for supporting their graduate students.

Join us for a working session on how to use COS Pivot, a ​​​comprehensive funding source database available to you as a UCSB student. This event is particularly relevant if you are a beginner in understanding funding or an advanced student doing research ​who has not quite found funding options that fit your work. Come with your laptops and your questions! Snacks will be provided.

On May 3rd, the Asian and Chicanx/Latinx Cultural Resource Center is hosting a panel of graduate students from different academic fields and identities to discuss their process of thriving and surviving in graduate school as a student of color.