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Professional Development: Career Development
Career development is a process that enables individuals to achieve professional goals through self-assessment and exploration. evaluating personal career values, interests, skills and actively seeking out opportunities in fields of interest through networking, mentorship and obtning relevant professional experiences to enhance competencies.
Rackham Resources
The Rackham Graduate School offers various annual programs med at career development:
Rackham Embedded Coordinator for Graduate Student Career Advancement
Drs. Kirsten Elling and Tim Cavnar provide comprehensive career coaching, advice, and programming to doctoral students to address challenges and foster successful professional paths. They offer appointments via the university's Career Center website.
Gear Your Career
This annual January event is open to master’s and doctoral students who can receive professional headshots, business cards or advice on refining their LinkedIn profile.
Ph.D. Connections
An annual multidisciplinary career conference for doctoral students and postdocs looking beyond academia into various non-academic career paths. Attees gn insights from Ph.D.s working in diverse fields through interactive sessions.
Rackham Workshops
The Rackham School regularly hosts workshops on professional development topics like future faculty preparation, alumni career conversations, among others.
Career development is an introspective process that helped me visualize my professional journey and set small goals to reach the bigger picture.
Sara Wong
Ph.D. Student in Cellular Molecular Biology
Campus Resources
CRLT Preparing Future Faculty Web Resources
Tools for navigating academic careers, writing teaching philosophies and enhancing productivity.
University Career Center
Confidential career counseling and workshops on exploring diverse career opportunities.
Rackham-CRLT May Seminar on Preparing Future Faculty
A nationally recognized program med at equipping Ph.D candidates with the skills needed for academic job searches and faculty positions.
NextProf
Michigan Engineering's workshops designed to strengthen leadership capabilities among the next generation of academic leaders.
Innovation Partnerships Licensing Fellows Program
Part-time work assisting specialists from Innovation Partnerships in evaluating new U-M inventions' technical and market potential.
Office of Graduate Postdoctoral Studies
Career support for biomedical post-baccalaureate, graduate, and postdoc professionals.
Imagine PhD
A resource for ities and social science doctoral students to explore career options.
MyIDP
An individual development plan tool for STEM doctoral candidates interested in career exploration.
Upcoming Events
September 30 - October 2
Cover Letters Resumes Workshop, Information Session and Career Chat.
October 9 - 18
Orientation for Postdocs October, Information Manipulation in Digital Spaces Seminar October 18.
Contact Professional Development and Engagement
Address:
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915 E. Washington St.,
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1070
Phone:
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