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Building and Leveraging Your Network for Graduate Students

Building and Leveraging Your Network (for Graduate Students)

Building a network and connecting with others is critical to your professional development in graduate school and job/internship searches....

Brian Jones: Black History Is For Everyone

U-M Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium

Brian Jones, senior director of reading and engagement at the New York Public Library, talks about how the study of Black history challenges...

Rackham Doctoral Intern Fellowships Information Session

Bring your questions about internships! During this session, Rackham and University Career Center staff will answer your questions about...

How to Stand Out as the Ideal Industry Candidate

Building Essential Communication Skills for Job Interviews Series

Learn how to build your story library for common job interview topics and how to tell vivid, purposeful stories using the PRO formula to...

Pitch Perfect: How to Effectively Network and Build a Strong Pitch for Graduate Students

Pitch Perfect: How to Effectively Network and Build a Strong Pitch (for Graduate Students)

Are you interested in learning how to effectively connect with colleagues and prospective employers? Do you want to learn how to discuss...

Break it Down Now: Project Management 101

How do you keep your research projects moving forward without missing important details? Do you wish you had an easier way to tackle large...

Cover Letters and Resumes for Jobs and Internships for Graduate Students

Cover Letters & Resumes for Jobs and Internships (for Graduate Students)

This workshop is open to all graduate students seeking guidance on cover letters and resumes for positions beyond tenure track roles. It...

Preparing Ph.D.s for Postdocs: How to Make Intentional Choices About if a Postdoc is Right for You

Are you a current Ph.D. student considering a postdoc as your next step? In this workshop, a collaboration between the University Career...

Identifying Transferable Skills in STEM

Transferable skills are highly sought after by employers. These are skills that can be readily adapted to and applied in many different...

Interviewing for Jobs and Internships for Graduate Students

Interviewing for Jobs and Internships (for Graduate Students)

This workshop is open to all graduate students seeking guidance around interviewing for positions beyond tenure track roles, which can...

Master's Resume Lab

Masters Resume Lab

In this interactive workshop, the Rackham embedded University Career Center coaching team will guide you through building out a strong...

Overcoming Financial Anxiety

This workshop is designed for students who are looking to learn more about how being a first-generation wealth builder may impact their...

CLIFF 2026 - 30th Anniversary Event

Comparative Literature Intra-student and Faculty Forum (CLIFF) has been a cornerstone of the Department of Comparative Literature since...

Ph.D. Resume Lab

PhD Resume Lab

In this interactive workshop, the Rackham embedded University Career Center Ph.D. coaching team will guide you through converting your...

Creating and Presenting a Conference Poster

Conference posters are for more than just communicating your research. While a good poster will help you tell a succinct story about your...

Building and Leveraging Your Network for Graduate Students

Building and Leveraging Your Network (for Graduate Students)

Building a network and connecting with others is critical to your professional development in graduate school and job/internship searches....

Career Exploration Resources and Strategies for Graduate Students

Career Exploration Resources & Strategies (for Graduate Students)

This workshop will focus on resources you can leverage to explore career options, as well as strategies to best position yourself for a...

Are You LinkedIn? (for Graduate Students)

Building your network is something you can be doing proactively throughout graduate school. Additionally, learning from what others have...

Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshops Focus Group: Graduate Students

Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshops Focus Group

This focus group is for graduate students to share their experiences about working with faculty through the Rackham Interdisciplinary...

Filing Taxes for Graduate Students

As part of our Financial Education Series, this virtual event is designed to help demystify tax filing for graduate students—an area that...

Negotiation Basics for Graduate Students

Negotiation is something that many people feel unprepared for, especially during the job search process. We'll talk through the steps...

Pitch Perfect: How to Effectively Network and Build a Strong Pitch for Graduate Students

Pitch Perfect: How to Effectively Network and Build a Strong Pitch (for Graduate Students)

Are you interested in learning how to effectively connect with colleagues and prospective employers? Do you want to learn how to discuss...

Art of the Resume Bullet Point for Graduate Students

Hosted by Rackham’s embedded University Career Center career counselors, the topic for this session is resumes. In particular, what are...

Cover Letters and Resumes for Jobs and Internships for Graduate Students

Cover Letters and Resumes for Jobs and Internships (for Graduate Students)

This workshop is open to all graduate students seeking guidance on cover letters and resumes for positions beyond tenure track roles. It...