Career & Tools

Come out for the first Graduate Student Health & Wellness event of the quarter! Make new friends with other grad students and test your trivia knowledge at the SRB Multi-Purpose Room. There will be music, hot tea, and snacks to enjoy as you compete. Trivia categories include pop culture, random facts, health facts, and more!

On May 1, join Instructional Development for a workshop on engaging students through asking questions. The workshop will examine strategies for crafting thought-provoking questions that will increase student engagement and deepen their understanding of the course material. Space is limited, so sign up today!

Please join the UCSB Bren School for the annual Master's Project Presentations on Friday, April 26! Free and open to the public, come watch groups talk about their results on issues such as: conservation/ecology, wind energy, greenhouse gas emissions, electric vehicles, coral reef restoration, and more. Presentations followed by a poster session and reception.

Are you interested in finding out how to get nearly $200 a month in food benefits? Join the UCSB CalFresh team in the GSA Lounge on Monday for a sign-up party featuring free food, free bags of groceries, and a raffle for a $50 UCSB Bookstore gift card! Be sure to check out their website for a list of documents to bring to the event.

​Come to the next event in the Women in Innovation & Entrepreneurship series to learn tangible skills to brand yourself effectively to enter entrepreneurial and industry fields. Read on for more info and to RSVP!

Come learn about the Individualized Professional​ Skills (IPS) Grant Program at ​our ​April 26 Meet & Eat! ​You'll hear from four PhD students in the Materials ​Department (Victoria Christensen, ​Jordan Smith, Ryan White, and Matthew Wong) about their professional development experiences funded by the IPS ​grant. Sign up today!

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has paid internship opportunities and a job opening this summer that are available to graduate students in Washington, DC. Application deadline is April 15, 2019. Read on for more info!

Are you interested in helping your fellow grad students find careers outside of academia? The UCSB Beyond Academia organizing committee is now recruiting graduate students and postdocs to join the team for next year’s conference, where you can have the opportunity to develop transferable skills that are ​valuable to careers both inside and outside of the academy.

Whether it's linking sentences, paragraphs, sections, or chapters, narrative is what allows good writing to flow. This workshop on April 24 will teach participants the ins and outs of narrative. From there, participants will learn how to revise their writing to better position the narratives in their own works. RSVP today and learn how to improve your ability to connect with your audience!

On April 22, join Instructional Development for a workshop on PowerPoint design. This workshop will help you learn how to make slides that research shows help your students learn best. Space is limited, so sign up today!

Join Dr. Christopher Martin, Senior Science Program Officer Directo​r of Grants and Systems​ at the Kavli Foundation, for a Physics Career Colloquium, "Learning Never Ends", on April 9, 2019. Topics may be of interest to graduate students in any science discipline thinking about their future. Read on for more info!

Find yourself obsessing about visuality, research, and the humanities? The UC Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI) is hiring a Research Communications Manager to coordinate all of UCHRI’s research and programming communications. Read on for more info and to apply!

Boston Consulting Group, a global management consulting firm and the world's leading advisor on business strategy, is currently looking to fill full-time Generalist Consultant and GAMMA positions. Read on for more information about these job opportunities and attend a virtual info session to learn about BCG. Apply today!

UCSB Library is offering two half-day, hands-on workshops aimed to familiarize participants with NVivo, a qualitative data analysis software tool, designed for researchers working with text-based and multimedia information. NVivo allows for researchers to complete deep analysis on large and small groups of data. Part 1 of the workshop will focus on file organization. Read on for more info.

On April 17, join Instructional Development for a workshop on grading student writing. Issues to be discussed include grading rubrics, written feedback, and anticipating potential grade disputes. Space is limited, so sign up today!