Academic job search

• Preparing for the Academic Job Search (Fall 2013, Spring 2014 [2 sessions], Fall 2015, Spring 2016 [2 sessions], Spring 2017, Summer 2017, Spring 2018)
• CVs, Cover Letters, and More: Preparing Academic Job Search Written Materials (Spring 2014, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Fall 2018)
• Interviewing for Faculty Positions (Summer 2015 webinar, Fall 2016 webinar series [part 1, part 2], Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2018 webinar)
• Behind the Scenes with an Academic Search Committee (Fall 2014, Fall 2015, Fall 2017)

Research and Publishing

• Talking about Your Research (Fall 2017)
• What is Trending in Scholarly Publishing? (Fall 2015)
• Preparing, Pitching, and Proposing Your First Book Project (Fall 2015)

Pedagogy

Note: Since its establishment, the Teaching & Learning Center has led the charge in developing workshops and events related to teaching and pedagogy.

• Writing a Statement of Teaching Philosophy (Fall 2015)
• Purposeful Pedagogy Conference (Spring 2014, Spring 2015)

Digital presence

• Digitizing Your CV (Spring 2014)
• Making Your (Digital) Teaching Portfolio (Spring 2014)
• Publicizing Your Research: Building, Communicating, and Branding Your Academic Identity (Spring 2017)

Other

• Grant Writing 101 (Fall 2013, Fall 2015)
• Building a Career at a Community College (Spring 2014)

• Alt-Ac Careers: Putting your Ph.D. to Work Beyond the Tenure Track (Fall 2013)
• An Alt-Ac/Industry Job Search Timeline (Fall 2016)
• Building a Network & Presenting Yourself Professionally (Professional Boot Camp: Getting Industry and Post-Ac Jobs) (Spring 2016)
• Building and Maintaining Professional Networks (Fall 2016)
• Career and Assessment Tools (Spring 2017)
• Coffee and Careers Job Search Group (Summer 2018)
• Creating Job Search Documents (Spring 2017)
• CV to Resume (Fall 2013; Spring 2014)
• Discover Your Options with Fatimah Williams Castro (Summer 2017)
• Discover Your Strengths and How to Maximize Them (Fall 2016)
• Effective Networking (Fall 2013; Fall 2015; Spring 2018)
• Hiring from the Recruiter’s Perspective (Fall 2015)
• Interviewing (for non-faculty positions) (Fall 2015)
• Interviewing and Negotiating Offers (Spring 2017)
• Job Search Tools (Spring 2017)
• Launching a Career in the U.S.—What’s Different? (Spring 2018)
• Leaving the Hallowed Halls: How to Bridge the Gap Between Academia and Industry (Fall 2015)
• Leaving the Hallowed Halls: Various Ways of Working in Research (Fall 2015)
• Leveraging your MA and Strategizing for Career Success (Fall 2013; Spring 2014)
• LinkedIn 101: Getting to Know the Basics (Spring 2015 webinar; Fall 2017 webinar; view recording here)
• Mastering the Job Interview (for Non-Faculty Jobs) (Spring 2015 webinar; view recording here)
• Networking and Interviewing: Post/Alt/Non-Academic Job Search Group (Fall 2013)
• Networking: Making Contacts that Can Build your Career (Fall 2014 webinar; view recording here)
• The Peer Review: Best Practices to Provide a Productive Review (Spring 2016)
• Post/Alt/Non-Academic Job Search Group: Launching Your Search (Fall 2013)
• Post Grad (Center): Engaging Publics with a PhD (Spring 2017)
• Post Grad (Center): Putting Your Graduate Skills and Training to Work (Fall 2015)
• Preparing for Careers Outside of Academia (IBM Session) (Spring 2017)
• Preparing for Job Interviews (Spring 2014)
• Preparing for the Job Search: Building Your Website (Spring 2016)
• Preparing for the Non-Academic Job Search (Fall 2016)
• Putting LinkedIn to Work: Job Searching, Networking, and Personal Branding (view webinar recording here)
• Resumes, Cover Letters, & More: Preparing for Your Non-Academic Job Search (view webinar recording here)
• Retooling your PhD 2014 with Richard Montauk (Spring 2014)
• Rock Your LinkedIn Profile (Fall 2016)
• Skills! Values! Interests! Using Career Assessment in your Job Search (Fall 2015)
• Self-Assessment: Post/Alt/Non Academic Job Search Group (Fall 2013)
• Stand Out Online: Optimizing Your LinkedIn Profile (Spring 2015 webinar; Fall 2017 webinar; view recording here)
• Starting Early. Post Grad (Center): Putting Your Graduate Skills and Training to Work series. (Fall 2015)
• Successful Networking for Today’s Career Paths (Fall 2016)
• Tailoring Professional Materials to Job Ads (Professional Boot Camp: Getting Industry and Post-Ac Jobs) (Spring 2016)
• Transferable Skills (Fall 2013; Spring 2014)
• What Else Can I Do? Finding your Professional Fit (Professional Boot Camp: Getting Industry and Post-Ac Jobs) (Spring 2016)
• What’s Next? Figuring Out Your Career Options (view webinar recording here)
• Writing a Strong Resume (Fall 2017)
• Writing a Strong Resume with Richard Montauk (Summer 2017)
• Writing Next: Next Gen PhD Seminar (Summer 2017)
• Writing Strong Resumes and Cover Letters (Fall 2015)

• Alt-Ac Mentoring: Publishing/Nonprofits/Education (Spring 2015)
• Careers at the Intersection of Business and Science (Spring 2017)
• Careers at the U.S. Department of State (Fall 2013)
• Careers in Big Data (Spring 2014; Spring 2017)
• Careers in Education Consulting, Research, and Tech (Spring 2018)
• Careers in Management and Strategy Consulting (Fall 2013)
• Careers in Non-Profits (Spring 2014)
• Careers in Media and Communication (Fall 2016)
• Careers in Publishing (Spring 2018)
• Careers in Research Outside the Academy (Fall 2017)
• Careers in State and Local Government (Fall 2016)
• Careers in the Arts and Cultural Production (Fall 2017)
• Careers Outside Academia: Hear from Graduate Center Social Science and Humanities Alumni (Spring 2012)
• Crack the Case Workshop (Spring 2015)
• Crossing Bridges: Putting your PhD to Work in University Administration (Fall 2015)
• Entrepreneurship (Spring 2017)
• From the GC to Google: A conversation with Google’s Director of Education and University Relations (Fall 2015)
• Google Information Session (Fall 2016)
• How to Launch a Startup (Fall 2017)
• Humanities Entrepreneurship (Spring 2018)
• IBM Information Session (Fall 2016)
• Information Session: IBM Chief Analytics Office (Spring 2016)
• Information Session: IBM Performance Marketing Analytics (Spring 2016)
• Leaving the Hallowed Halls: How to Bridge the Gap Between Academia and Industry (Fall 2015)
• Leaving the Hallowed Halls: Various Ways of Working in Research (Fall 2015)
• NYC Science Communication Event: Panel Discussion on Careers in Medical Communications (Fall 2016)
• Nuts and Bolts of an Independent/Private School Job Search (Fall 2013)
• PhD Careers in Finance (Fall 2014)
• Planning for a Fulfilling Career: A Primer for STEM Graduate Students (Spring 2014)
• Preparing for Careers Outside of Academia (IBM Session) (Spring 2017)
• Science Careers in Government (Spring 2018)
• Teaching in an Independent School or College Prep School (K-12) (Fall 2013)
• Teaching in Private Schools with Faculty Diversity Search (Fall 2014)
• Two Perspectives on Writing, Editing, and Publishing (Spring 2014)
• Using your PhD to Make Change in the World (Fall 2014)
• Wall Street 101 (Fall 2014)
• Wall Street 102 (Spring 2015)

Note: The events below were specifically designed for students in MA programs (though many of our events are designed for both Master’s and PhD students).

• The Basics of Applying to Doctoral Programs (Fall 2014; Fall 2015; Fall 2016)
• Leveraging your MA and Strategizing for Career Success (Fall 2013; Spring 2014)
• Orientation to Career Services (Fall 2016)
• Why and How to Apply for a PhD: A Panel on Pursuing Doctoral Studies (Spring 2014)

• Alt-Ac Mentoring: Publishing/Nonprofits/Education (Spring 2015)
• Alumni Mentoring Roundtable (Fall 2013; Fall 2014; Spring 2017)
• Careers Outside Academia: Hear from Graduate Center Social Science and Humanities Alumni (Spring 2012)
• Networking for Graduate Students: Co-sponsored with NYC Versatile PhD (Spring 2014)
• Networking for Scientists (co-sponsored by the Minority Grad Student Network) (Fall 2014)
• Post Grad (Center): Engaging Publics with a PhD (Spring 2017)
• Post Grad (Center): Putting Your Graduate Skills and Training to Work (Fall 2015)
• Science Mentoring Event (Spring 2018)

• ACLS Public Fellows Information Session (Spring 2015; Spring 2016; Spring 2018)
• Applying for Funding Opportunities via the Social Science Research Council (Fall 2014)
• Applying for National Science Foundation (NSF) Funding (Fall 2013)
• Careers in Public Policy via the Rogowsky Internship Program (Fall 2014)
• HACU National Internship Program Recruitment Visit (Fall 2014; Fall 2015; Fall 2016; Fall 2017)
• How to Apply for Postdoctoral Fellowships (Humanities and Social Sciences) (Fall 2015)
• IBM Summer Internship Info Session (Fall 2017)
• Info Session: Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans (Fall 2015)
• Information Session with Vera Institute of Justice (Fall 2016; Fall 2017)
• Internships with IBM Business Performance Services (Fall 2014)
• Internships with IBM Enterprise Marketing Performance (Spring 2015)
• NYS Excelsior Service Fellowship Program Info Session (Spring 2018)
• Regeneron’s Postdoctoral Training Program: Info Session (Fall 2014)

• ESL for Scientists Writing Workshop (Spring 2018)
• Write Now (Spring 2018; Summer 2018)
• Writing an Article in the Quantitative Social Sciences (Spring 2018)

To view recordings of our past webinars, as well as to access handouts from these events, please visit our Webinar Archive page.

Career options and networking

• What’s Next? Figuring Out Your Career Options (Summer 2014; Fall 2016)
• How to Network and Build Your Connections (Fall 2014; Fall 2016)
• LinkedIn 101: Getting to Know the Basics (Spring 2015; Fall 2017)
• Optimizing Your LinkedIn Profile (Summer 2015; Fall 2017)
• Putting LinkedIn to Work: Job Searching, Networking, and Personal Branding (Summer 2015; Fall 2017)

Academic job search

• Preparing for the Academic Job Market (Fall 2014; Fall 2016)
• CVs, Cover Letters, and More: Preparing Strong Documents for the Academic Job Search (Summer 2015)
• After the Application: What Happens Next in the Job Search Process (Summer 2015)
• Preparing for Interviews for Faculty Positions (Fall 2014)
• Preparing for a Campus Visit (Spring 2016)
• Preparing for the Job Talk and Teaching Demo (Spring 2016)
• Applying for a Postdoc: STEM fields (Spring 2016)
• Applying for a Postdoc: Humanities and Social Sciences (Spring 2016)

Non-academic job search

• Preparing for a Job Search: The Best Practices for Finding Non-Academic Work Today (Summer 2018)
• Resumes, Cover Letters, & More: Preparing for Your Non-Academic Job Search (Fall 2014)
• Creating a Resume that Stands Out (Fall 2016, Spring 2018)
• Creating a Cover Letter that Stands Out (Spring 2018)
• Mastering the Job Interview (for Non-Academic Jobs) (Spring 2015; Fall 2016; Spring 2018)

Other

• Making the Most of an Academic Conference (Spring 2016)
• How to Budget and Meet Financial Goals with Your Stipend (Spring 2017)
• The Graduate Student Guide to Personal Finance (Spring 2017)