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Recent graduates of the PhD program have been hired at prestigious institutions, including UC Berkeley, Yale, Harvard GSD, Oberlin, Middlebury, Vassar, Sarah Lawrence, Wesleyan, Rice, Smith, Parsons, the Universities of New Mexico, Maryland, and North Carolina, and as curators at the Getty Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Asia Society and Museum, the Freer and Sackler Galleries of the Smithsonian Institution, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and the Royal Library in The Hague.
Graduate Student Career Development (GSCD), a department within the Center for Career Education, provides graduate students with the tools and knowledge necessary to assess, understand, and utilize the links between their education, objectives, and career opportunities. GSCD works directly with Masters and Ph.D. candidates from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
To address your career education needs, GSCD provides a broad menu of workshops, individualized career counseling, and specialized events (including alumni and industry panels and presentations, networking events and distinguished speakers) – all targeted to the unique needs graduate students. GSCD also provides personalized counseling on self-assessment, career search processes, interviewing, presentation, and "job talk" skills. Video recorded practice interview, presentation, and analysis sessions are also available. The department has developed specialized programming designed to meet the unique needs of doctoral candidates; including workshops addressing issues surrounding academic and non-academic career paths. Lastly, the department operates a dossier service, which manages and distributes references for graduate students and alumni.
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The Center for Career Education maintains a career resource library with materials specifically for graduate students. The Center also coordinates campus recruiting services, resume collections, and job postings – for permanent as well as summer, part-time, on-campus, and internship positions. The Center recently updated its website and you are encouraged to explore both the new website and the Center itself. There are several steps you should take to start benefiting from the Center's resources:
- Activate your online account with the Center. This will ensure you are notified of events of interest to you. You can do this on the Center's web-site.
- Explore the website and review the online calendar of upcoming events. The schedule is constantly updated and new events may have limited space.
- Review the steps outlined on the website for commencing your own personal assessment and for building an inventory of goals, experience, skills, and objectives. It is never too early to start this process.
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