Career Services for Graduate Students

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INDUSTRY-SPECIFIC JOB SEARCH

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS

MORE OPTIONS

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Industry-Specific Job Search

• Take Charge of Your Job Search: Research the Company
• Building a Professional Portfolio
• USA Job Search (accessible through your Blue Hen Careers account)
• International Jobs - Going Global (accessible through your Blue Hen Careers account)
• Tap into Professional Association Resources – View Association by Area of Study  using Yahoo’s directory :

• Arts & Humanities
• Business & Economics
• Computers, Internet & Technology
• Entertainment & Performance
• Health & Wellness
• Sciences (select sub-topic then organizations)
• Social Sciences
  

Jobs in Academia - available from UD’s Center for Teaching & Learning

• Writing a CV & sample CVs
• Writing a teaching/research statement & samples (USCF handout, UPENN powerpoint)
• Negotiating an academic job offer
• Academic job search guide (Handout )
• Postdoctoral jobs  
• Fulbright Scholarship
  • U.S. Student Program
  • Foreign Student Program
  • U.S. Scholar Program
    
• Where to look for jobs in Academia
  • Chronicle of Higher Education
  • Higher Ed Jobs
  • Top Higher Education Jobs
  • PhDs.org (resources for finding a job and getting into grad school/succeeding in grad school)
  • GradSchools.com (includes information on graduate school fellowships)

U.S. Government Opportunities for Graduate Students

• Environmental Protection Agency
• Department of Health and Human Services Emerging Leaders Program
• www.usajobs.gov
  

Engineering & Technology

• Sample Master's Level Resume for Technology Majors
• Sample PhD Level Resume for Technology Majors

Professional Development Workshops

• Graduate Student Professional Development Resources - UD Center for Teaching & Learning
• 30-Second Commercial - Learn how to market yourself in 30 seconds (handout)
• Salary Negotiation - Salary negotiation is about how to best communicate your qualifications, value, benefits and performance to employers in exchange for status, position, money and extra perks. This workshop provides basic knowledge needed to begin the negotiation process.(handout)
• Behavioral Interviewing - Employers have put aside the traditional style of interviewing and have embraced Behavioral Interviewing? Come learn how the "Star Method" can help you to ace the interview and land you the job.(handout)
• Interviewing Strategies: Acing the Interview - This workshop will give students an understanding of how to be successful in interviews.(handout)
• Take Charge of Your Job Search: Research the Company - Employer have said that academic preparation alone, will not be enough to secure a job. You need to know more before the interview. Learn techniques on how to research a company. (handout)
• Refer to What's Happening for these and other upcoming workshops

More Options

• Higher Education Teaching Certificate
• Graduate Student Professional Development (video clips, PPTs, handouts, etc.)
• Credential File Service (Powered by Interfolio, Inc.) Interfolio is an easy and efficient way for a student to send application materials to graduate and professional schools or a PhD to send academic credentials to a search committee.

 

Last updated: October 15, 2010 (GC)