Career and Professional Development

Office for Career Success

The Office for Career Success provides services such as career consultation, including CV/resume review, cover letter writing, networking, and mock interviews to assist in preparing for interviews with employers. Career educators are available to advise students about opportunities and to assist them in developing and practicing effective career management skills. Utilize the Handshake platform to discover thrilling career prospects tailored to your interests and aspirations. Register for Handshake today.

ImaginePhD

ImaginePhD is a free online career exploration and planning tool for PhD students and postdoctoral scholars in the humanities and social sciences.

ImaginePhD consists of:

• Assessments: Three online assessments allow PhD students to self-assess their career-related skills, interests, and values. Once the assessments are completed, an algorithm allows users to compare their skills and interests alignments with Job Families.
• Job Families: PhD students can explore potential careers by reviewing the Job Families, which contain detailed information about career types and resources to explore, connect, build skills, and apply for positions. Sample career packets with job descriptions, cover letters, and resume examples are also contained in this section.
• My Plan: The My Plan component of the website provides PhD students an opportunity to create an individual development plan (IDP) and set specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and time-based goals that will help them advance in their graduate programs and careers.

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