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Briana Mohan is our Senior Career Advisor. She holds workshops related to career development and meets individually with students and fellows throughout the year. In addition to scheduled events, she has compiled an extensive library of career resources. These resources can be found in the OGPS Career Support Canvas Course which is open to all postdoctoral fellows and all students served by OGPS.
The resources posted here may be useful for the faculty and staff who work with graduate students or postdocs. If you believe you should have access to the Canvas Course but do not, please reach out to Briana Mohan.
The Professor is In: CV or Résumé
How to Build Your CV
Essay on Writing and Rewriting the Academic CV
On the CV of Failures, Downtime and Being Normal
This Princeton Professor Posted his CV of Failures for the World to See
How to Tailor a Job Letter (Without Flattering, Pandering, or Begging)
What's the Draw
The Community College Cover Letter
No Correct Answers
How to Survive Your First-Round Interview
Barriers to Listening in a Job Interview and Strategies to Overcome Them
How to Style Your Skype Interview
Making the Most of Your Teaching Demo
How to Talk About Teaching
The Professor is In: What to Wear
Acing the Two-Year College Interview
Tracy Chou, leading Silicon Valley Engineer, Explains Why Every Tech Worker Needs a Humanities Education
Liberal Arts Majors are the Future of the Tech Industry
Ethnographers, Bearers of Bad News
Biomedical Sciences: Job Options, Duties and Requirements
As More Humanities PhDs are Awarded, Job Openings are Disappearing
Recommendations for Humanities PhDs and Departments (Opinion)
Top Scholarships and Financial Aid Programs for Students, Teachers and Parents
How a Grad Student Couple Lived Within their Means
How to Write a Good Research Grant Proposal
Report: Student Borrowers Mired Deeper in Debt
Money Management While Living Apart
Are You Ready for the Student Loan Forgiveness Program?
The Job-Search Buddy System
Advice to Grad Students for Demonstrating Career Readiness Competencies to Employers
Tools to Help Job Seekers Decide Next Career Steps
Why You Should Lose the Degree-Focused Career List
#NORESUME
Make Time for Reflection when Contemplating a New Career
9-Year-Old Applies for Job at NASA, and Here's how NASA Responds
What Color is Your Parachute
Cover Letter Guide
Mastering the Modern Cover Letter
Cover Letter Layout Example and Formatting Tips
My Best Mistake: Writing the Un-cover Letter
Before You Write a Cover Letter for a Nonfaculty Job, Try this Exercise
Cover Letters are Dead - Send a Pain Letter, Instead
The Career Change: Tired of Short-Term Jobs
The Tiny Yet Powerful Cover Letter
Résumé Guide
Don't Fear the Résumé
The Best and Worst Fonts to Use on Your Résumé
The Most Important Thing on Your Résumé: The Executive Summary
From CV to Résumé
6 Things I Loved about the Most Impressive Résumé I've Ever Seen
The Best Tool for a Job Interview is Comfort with Yourself
Interview Questions for Graduate Students Interviewing for Non-Academic Jobs
Barriers to Listening in a Job Interview and Strategies to Overcome Them
7 (Really Hard) Interview Questions You Must Answer Properly
How to Write a Thank You Note after a Job Interview
Smart Answers to Stupid Job Interview Questions
Answering the Sticky Question: "What Did Your Last Job Pay?"
Money Matters
Should I Negotiate Salary? Yes, Here's Why
PayScale's Salary Negotiation Guide
You Don't Get What You Don't Ask For
Negotiating, Nonacademic Style
Worth vs. Value in Job Negotiations
7 Magic Words and Phrases for Expert Salary Negotiation
Everything You Ever Wondered About Negotiating Salary, Answered
Negotiating Over Email? Here's Exactly What to Write to Get Top Dollar
5 Networking Strategies
Simple Ways to be a Better Networker
23 Questions to Ask Instead of "So, What Do You Do?"
Answers to Questions About Using LinkedIn for Alt-Ac Job Searches
15 Tips to Speaking in Front of People
How to Send Cold Emails that Pay Off in a Job Search
Tips for Clear and Professional Electronic Communication on the Job
5 Things You Should Never Communicate Through Email
It's Your Job, Not Your Life
Revisiting Disclosure
Berkeley Study Finds High Levels of Depression Among Graduate Students
Anxious Students Strain College Mental Health Centers
Sabotaging Your Career with Self-Doubt
"My Grief Lies all Within" — PhD Students, Depression & Attrition
PhD Students could Face Significant Mental Health Problems
Counseling Resource Guide
Why Academia Needs Emotional, Passionate Women
Female Academics Face Huge Sexist Bias – No Wonder there are So Few of Them
Asian Women Scholars Find Unity Through Feminist Course
Ladies, Let's Negotiate
Academia is Quietly and Systematically Keeping its Women from Succeeding
Student Evaluations of Teaching are not only Unreliable, They are Significantly Biased Against Female Instructors
Negotiating Salary at Work – Easy Tips for Women
Campus Diversity Efforts Ignore the Widest Gulf: Social Class
How Black Middle-Class Kids Become Poor Adults
Racial Wealth Gap Persists Despite Degree, Study Says
How do you Finish a PhD when, as a Working-Class Student, you Don't Feel you Belong?
A PhD who is a Mother Talks about Life at the Intersection of Privilege and Poverty