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Graduate students are a unique and highly trained student population at UCSB. As members of the most educated constituents within the workforce, graduate students' career needs are often vast, nuanced, and advanced.

We support you in seeking out any career that fits your skills and interests to actualize your goals. Through a suite of specialized resources, tools, and information, we can help you get to you where you want to go.

Topics for Grad Students

Bring Your Career to New Heights


 

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Getting Started

Take your first steps toward career success with strategies, timelines, and resources to help you move forward in any direction

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Academic Careers

Continue your path in the academy by honing your search strategies, professional documents, job talk, and other essential pieces of the puzzle

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Non-Academic Careers

Navigate your route toward non-academic jobs in industry utilizing your transferable skills to stand out among the crowd of applicants

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Click to view upcoming event opportunities that provide specific preparation for graduate students.

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Highlighted Resources

 

Imagine
PhD

 

See What Suits You

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Implement Your Goals

UCSB Graduate Student Career Guide

Career Manual for Graduate Students

 

Review this guide in your viewing mode of choice:

  • Via the interactive window on this page
  • Via manual hosted on the Issuu website