Cross Campus Graduate and Professional Mentorship

What is Cross Campus G&P Mentorship?

By leveraging our Cross Campus online community, the Yale Alumni Association arranges mentor-mentee relationships between students of Yale’s participating graduate and professional schools and their alumni.

This is a 1:1 relationship. Each mentor is …

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What happens after you submit a job application?

Read about how to navigate the job search process more confidently in this article by Derek Attig published in Inside Higher Ed.

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Using LinkedIn to Leverage Your PhD for Career Success

The PhD Pathways Series from Versatile PhD provides an “outside the academy” perspective on career preparation and opportunities across a range of skills, trends and industries. This webinar from December 2020 is available to view now, and be sure to …

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Ensuring early-career scholars receive market-value compensation for freelance work

By Brian DeGrazia, in the Inside Higher Ed Carpe Careers series.

As a graduate student and early-career scholar, building a portfolio of professional academic experiences provides a lot of potential value. Freelance jobs in editing, translation, indexing, research and similar kinds …

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All the World’s a Stage: An Improvisational Approach to Building a Post-Doctoral Career

The PhD Pathways Series from Versatile PhD provides an “outside the academy” perspective on career preparation and opportunities across a range of skills, trends and industries. This webinar from February 2021 is available to view now, and be sure to …

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Helping Those With Disabilities Navigate Job Transitions

By Brian J. Rybarczyk and Allison Gose, in the Inside Higher Ed Carpe Careers series.

For a graduate student, the job market is an intimidating space full of uncertainty. Add to that a disability, and the navigation of the professional world …

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What Entrepreneurs and Geniuses Have in Common – Hosted by UConn TCS

March 2 @ 4:30 pm5:30 pm

Join UConn Technology Commercialization Services (‘TCS’) for a Fireside chat discussing:  The key characteristics of geniuses, teams and creativity, genius as a binary scenario, the role of luck, and what should you be doing.

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Cell Mentor – Professional Development for Scientists

Cell Mentor is a collection of professional development resources provided by Cell Press, with the aim of helping scientists imagine career possibilities, learn technical skills, publish, and ultimately find jobs.

The press also hosts job listings for scientists covering many …

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Navigating First-Gen Career Pressures

By Helen Pho. Originally posted on Inside Higher Ed

When I first told my parents I was leaving my job as an admissions officer to begin a doctoral program in history after just graduating from college a few years before, …

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Internships for International Grad Students: A Step-By-Step Guide

By Leah Collum, November 18, 2019 – see the original post on Inside Higher Ed

Those two little words are all but guaranteed to strike dread into the heart of practically every international graduate student job seeker. It’s a classic catch-22: …

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