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Graduate Student Career Resources
This is a roundup of documents and links to resources that you may
find useful as you are preparing for internships, your first "real" job
interview, etc. If you have suggestions for other resources that you
would recommend, contact the Graduate Student Issues Committee, c/o
GSI Chair Joe Mazzola
Enjoy!
Career Development
- Cunningham
et al Work Stress Health 2008
DeArmond
Work Stress Health 2008 OHP in a Business School
Krauss
Work Stress Health 2008 OHP and Consulting
WheelerPoms
Work Stress Health 2008 OHP Interdisciplinary Perspective
- This is a collection of presentations from an OHP Careers symposium
at the Work, Stress & Health 2008 conference held in Washington DC
during March, 2008.
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CV/Resume
Top
Ten Resume Mistakes
- http://www.dartmouth.edu/%7Egradstdy/careers/services/vita.html
- This is an excellent source which outlines
the formation of a CV. It provides a list of items to include
in the CV with specific tips for each, how to format references,
and possible supplementary materials. Links to three examples CVs
are provided as well.
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- http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/641/01/
- Like the Dartmouth website, this site provides
a comprehensive plan for creating a CV. It begins by explaining
the difference between a CV and a resume. Elements to include
in the CV are then covered. It covers "gapping" and "parallelism" as
essentials for a good CV. One weakness I think this has is that
it does not provide CV examples, but instead directs the student
to other sources (books) to learn more about formatting.
- http://chronicle.com/jobs/news/1999/09/99091701c/careers.html
- This source provides five different CV formats
in different fields including the social sciences, education, humanities,
fine arts, and the sciences. This is a good source to use
as a model in constructing a new CV.
- http://www.msstate.edu/dept/coop/interview/resume.html
- For the student who needs to create a resume,
this is a very thorough source. It provides common elements
of the resume, a very lengthy list of possible action verbs, a
critique list, and sample chronological and functional resumes. It's
a good starting place, especially for that first resume.
- http://www.career.virginia.edu/students/resources/handouts/writing_resumes.pdf
- A truly excellent resume writing resource
-- this 8 page document has it all. In addition to the usual
tips regarding style and format, this document also provides 2
pages of action verbs separated by skill type. Four example resumes
are also provided.
Interviewing
- http://www.sigmod.org/record/issues/0112/career-jobsearch.htm
- This is basically an essay which describes
the application/interview process for someone seeking an academic
position after graduate school. Pointers are included regarding
scheduling, how to talk about your past and future research (the
job talk), negotiation, and making the final decision.
- http://career.utk.edu/students/skills_interview.asp
http://career.utk.edu/shared/job_interview_guide.pdf
- These are two excellent links for interview
tips. The first site is for UTK's main interview page which
provides links to fifty FAQs, tips on how to interview, tips for
a telephone interview, behavioral strategies, self assessments,
common interview questions, and tips for the company visit. The
second link is to a 27 page PDF that combines all of these features
and more. It's a truly thorough source.
- http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~jbeebe2/IntvQs.htm
- For the academic interviewee, this source
provides nine links to common interview questions. It's a
fairly comprehensive list, over all, but more academic-focused.
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The Job Search
Direct
Approach Tips
Trade
Publications Can Increase Marketability
Unique
Job Search Concerns of Graduate Students
Unique
Networks for Women
The Job Talk
- http://www.nd.edu/~dlindley/handouts/preshints.html
- This is a basic, but useful, list of tips
to consider for a job talk. Considering the lack of information
out there on this topic, this source seems to be pretty good.
- http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_development/previous_issues/
articles/3360/academic_scientists_at_work_the_job_talk
- This source provides tips regarding the audience,
organization, a DO list and a DO NOT list, and tips on ending the
talk.
- http://www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/graduate/placement/axelrodtips.html
- This source provides 17 tips for before,
during, and after the talk. It's geared for someone in the
field of government and politics, but could probably be used in
other disciplines. Most of the tips are about the audience,
clarity, and timing.
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