Job Searching
Adulting 101: Know Your Value – Job Offers and Salary Negotiation
October 10 @ 3:00 – 4:15 pm
Career Connections Center, Reitz Union
While negotiating a job offer can be scary, we guarantee you are worth more than you think you are. Attend this workshop to learn how to facilitate the negotiation timeline, how the offer process works with employers, and understand negotiation best practices.
Adulting 101: Starting Strong – Your First 30 Days in the Work Place
October 14 @ 3:00 – 4:15 pm
Career Connections Center, Reitz Union
So you secured your first job after graduation, congratulations! Now what?! Attend this workshop to learn the topics you are expected to know but no one tells you about after starting your first full-time job.
Education Industry Institute
October 16 @ 5:00 – 6:30 pm
Career Connections Center, Reitz Union
Industry Institutes provide an opportunity for students to learn about a specific area of work from a variety of employers. In the Education Industry Institute, students will connect with professionals who work in the field of education and explore the many career pathways both in and outside of the classroom.
Industry Institute: Public Service
October 17 @ 5:00 – 7:00 pm
Career Connections Center, Reitz Union
An Industry Institute is an opportunity for you to learn details about a particular career of interest. The purpose of this event to provide you with the chance to gain clarity on what a career in public service is and the opportunities available to you by interacting directly with industry related employers.
Adulting 101: Secure the Bag – Financial Management 101
October 21 @ 3:00 – 4:15 pm
Career Connections Center, Reitz Union
Truly adulting means understanding how to manage your money. Attend this workshop to learn from a financial planner on how to budget, prepare for regional cost of living, and understand the importance of credit, debit, and savings.
Skills Lab: Business Plan Writing
October 24 @ 5:00 – 7:00 pm
Career Connections Center, Reitz Union
Have a desire to start a business, but don’t know where to start? Come out an join us to gain great insight from a premier business owner who will get you started on your way!
Powering Up Your Résumé for a Nonfaculty Job Search
Overcoming the PhD Stereotype – Ways to rebrand yourself for a nonacademic career
US private sector employs nearly as many PhDs as schools do
UF Career Connections Center
The UF Career Connections Center offers a wide variety of workshops and career fairs to help UF Students with their professional development (not just for undergraduate students – for graduate students, too!). From major exploration to preparing for job searches or interviews, we have an event that will help you get where you need to be. Over 25,000 students used the career center last year to help them…will you?
Gator Professional Series (GPS) is a sequence of personal and professional development workshops that review skills and topics needed for you to become career ready.
Completing both GPS tracks will help you:
– Develop strategies for your job/internship search
– Craft your professional brand
– Discover the skills employers seek in a candidate
– Translate your UF experience and impact
For more information about other Career Connections Center events and programs, please see Events & Programs.
Job Search Tools
Science Careers
Bio Careers
Gator Career Link
CVs, Resumes, and Cover Letters
Career Resources
Science Careers (career resources and tools provided by the AAAS)
New York Academy of Sciences Career Center
See additional links at Career Development page
Funding Opportunities
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University of Michigan LSA Collegiate Fellows Program
The LSA Collegiate Fellows program is aimed at recruiting exceptional early career postdoctoral scholars in all liberal arts fields whose scholarship/research, and/or teaching/mentoring, and/or service/engagement demonstrates their strong commitment to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in the academy.
The program provides natural scientists, humanists, and social scientists with up to two years of support to pursue independent scholarship, engage with a strong community of scholars, as well as prepare them for possible tenure-track appointments in the University of Michigan’s College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA).
Deadline to apply: October 1, 2019
Click here for more information: LSA Collegiate Fellows Program
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DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program
The goal of the Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program is to prepare graduate students for science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) careers critically important to the DOE Office of Science mission, by providing graduate thesis research opportunities at DOE laboratories.
The SCGSR program provides supplemental awards to outstanding U.S. graduate students to pursue part of their graduate thesis research at a DOE laboratory/facility in areas that address scientific challenges central to the Office of Science mission. The research opportunity is expected to advance the graduate students’ overall doctoral thesis while providing access to the expertise, resources, and capabilities available at the DOE laboratories/facilities.
Deadline to apply: November 14, 2019
Click here for more information: SCGSR Program
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Research Abroad for Doctoral Students
The RAD program is changing for the 2019 academic year so that more doctoral students may participate and benefit from the program. The RAD program provides funding for travel and travel related expenses for doctoral students to travel abroad to collect data or to access resources not available on campus at partner institutions.
Stays abroad can range from four to six weeks. The program is not meant to fully support field research but rather to supplement ongoing doctoral research with resources available abroad. This opportunity is intended to enable doctoral students to expand their network of potential collaborators while also helping to build bridges between UF and international partners. There will be two tracks, one for STEM students and one for students in the humanities and social sciences.
Deadline to apply: October 18, 2019
Click here for more information: Research Abroad for Doctoral Students