During your time at Yale, seek out experiences that will help you test careers and workplaces, or build marketable skills that will enhance your professional success. Be sure to consider your goals carefully; doing a self-assessment can help frame your thinking.
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Many campus organizations offer skill-building workshops open to students. Sign up for their newsletters, or investigate other opportunities in your areas of interest. For more ways to develop your transferable skill set while on campus, click here!
Tip: Are you a GSAS student?
Be sure to review the extensive list of additional professional development opportunities available to graduate students on the GSAS website!
FAQ: Teaching
- Graduate Student, Professional Student, and Postdoctoral Teaching Development, Center for Teaching and Learning
FAQ: Communications
FAQ: Design, Art, Media
FAQ: Business and Entrepreneurship
FAQ: Digital and Public Humanities
FAQ: Statistics and Programming
Tip: Consider online resources to develop skills and boost your knowledge on a particular topic.
- LinkedIn Learning: An online library that teaches the latest skills through videos taught by recognized industry experts. This resource is free for current Yale students and postdocs
- Coursera: Over 2,000 online courses taught by professors around the world. Join for free and check out offerings by Yale professors:
- Introduction to Negotiation: A Strategic Playbook for Becoming a Principled and Persuasive Negotiator, by Barry Nalebuff, Milton Steinbach Professor at SOM
- Financial Markets, by Robert Shiller, Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale
- A Law Student's Toolkit, Ian Ayres, William K. Townsend Professor, Yale Law School
- iBiology Courses: Two online training courses in a self-paced format - Planning Your Scientific Journey and Business Concepts for Life Scientists. These courses, which are free and accessible at any time, can help individuals become more effective scientists and plan for future careers. Advanced undergrads, graduate students, and postdocs are encouraged to participate!
- PreScouter.org: Opportunities for GSAS students, postdocs and engineers in academia to work as a Global Scholar remotely with corporate clients on part-time research or business anlytics project.