Looking for ways to enhance your skill set and gain professional experience while at Yale? Take advantage of the many professional development opportunities designed for Yale graduate students. Additional skill-building and experiential learning opportunities for graduate students and postdocs at Yale include:
Technical Tools
- Digital Humanities Lab
- Yale Statlab
- Yale Center for Science and Social Science Information (CSSSI)
- Yale Center for Collaborative Arts and Media (CCAM)
- Center for Engineering Innovation and Design (CEID)
- CEID YouTube channel – recorded workshops covering many design tools and techniques
- Skillport Library (free to Yale students and postdocs) – engineering and IT skills courses and many technical certification tracks
Communications and Teaching:
- Graduate Writing Lab, Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning
- Teaching Development for Graduate and Professional School Students, Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning
- Yale 3-Minute Thesis Competition
- Science Diplomats
- Yale Toastmasters Club (public speaking)
Business and Entrepreneurship:
- Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale
- Yale Student Business Society
- Yale Graduate Consulting Club
- Office of Cooperative Research programs for graduate students
- Greenlight business ideation workshops, Center for Business and the Environment
- Skillsoft Library (free to Yale students and postdocs): courses on Analyst Research, Business Skills, Compliance, Productivity & Collaboration Tools, Business Continuity, resources for certification from the Project Management Institute
For other ways to gain project management and leadership experience, consider:
- Working for a Yale organization as a Graduate Professional Experience Fellow or McDougal Graduate Fellow
- Joining the leadership team of a GSAS student organization
- Performing volunteer work
