Professional & Career Development
Online Career Development Resources
The resources below can help you advance your graduate career and aid you in your professional and personal development.
CAREER DEVELOPMENT
Career Planning Tools and Self-Assessments
An Individual Development Plan will help you explore career options and create a roadmap of how to get there. This plan will also help your faculty mentor give you the training you need for your chosen path. The following online tools will help you assess your skills, interests, and values, identify career options that align these, and learn more about various career paths.
- - Created for biosciences, but is applicable to a broad range of STEM fields.
- - Built with the humanities and social sciences in mind but can be used by those in STEM fields as well. Explores many career options outside of technical careers.
- - Developed by the American Chemical Society, this is best suited for students with chemistry or chemical engineering background.
Exploring Career Options
- - Career advice for both academic and nonacademic career paths, working at different types of academic institu