Professional & Student Success

Achieving your goals starts with setting them. We encourage students to explore career paths and opportunities to prepare for the future they envision for themselves. Students will find programming for careers both within and outside of academia, as well as hands-on training for specific skills to make them more competitive in the job market. Follow your interests and find opportunities to begin building towards your professional goals!

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    Looking for an internship, postdoc, fellowship, or full-time role?

    Attend the GCC Virtual Career Expo (VCE)! This free virtual job fair brings together employers from the fields of STEM, Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences seeking advanced degree talent (Masters, PhDs, Postdocs and Alumni).

    • Wednesday, March 4, 2026 from 12-4pm EST

    Register here to attend!

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    Handshake for Students

    Handshake is UNH's one-stop shop for professional success! On this online platform, you can search for career opportunities, apply for jobs and internships, learn about recruiting events, and more. Visit the UNH Handshake homepage or the Handshake Help Center to learn more.

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    Beyond the Professoriate E-Platform

    "I learned how to package my PhD and research skills to people outside my subject area, how to turn an academic cv into a resume, and how to network... Beyond the Professoriate has normalized not knowing how to do these things and then clearly and concisely teaches you to how to acquire these essential skills". 

    - Postdoc

UNH Graduate School Events and Resources

In one-on-one meetings with Dr. Jovana Milosavljevic Ardeljan, Director of Career, Professional, & Community Development, you can discuss how to maximize your graduate experience, and learn more about the resources and career exploration tools listed below.

Make an Appointment

 

Online Platforms for Career and Professional Development

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Beyond the Professoriate’s Career Training Platform is an online professional development tool where postdocs and graduate students can explore career options and learn job search strategies. Through two programs of study (Academic Careers and Professional Careers), students are empowered to make informed decisions about their career path and learn successful job search strategies from other PhDs.

Access Beyond the Professoriate

"I really appreciated the practical, actionable advice and the supportive tone of the conferences and webinars. It can be overwhelming to navigate career options after a PhD, but the platform made the process feel more manageable and empowering." 

- Doctoral Student

Benefits of Beyond the Professoriate:

  • Supporting career exploration.
  • Promoting engaging learning through reflective activities that encourage students to apply what they’ve learned.
  • Offering recorded seminars, reflective prompts, and assessments that guide the student experience and foster user engagement.

The Virtual Career Expo (VCE) is a free virtual job fair that brings together employers from the fields of STEM, Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences seeking advanced degree talent (Masters, PhDs, Postdocs and Alumni).

Event Details

  • Date: Wednesday, March 4, 2026
  • Time: 12-4pm EST / 11am-3pm CST / 9am-1pm PST
  • Location: vFairs (virtual event)
  • Register on the event website or on Handshake

Pro tip: Register early so employers can start looking at your resume, and be sure to review the Attendee Instructions!

Participating employers (as of Jan 20, 2026): 

  1. Brockton Public Schools
  2. Brookhaven National Lab
  3. Carney Sandoe* (Event sponsor)
  4. CNA Corporation
  5. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
  6. County of Marin
  7. Fred Hutch Cancer Center
  8. GE Aerospace
  9. Health Research Inc.
  10. Howard Hughes Medical Institute
  11. Laland Baptiste
  12. Mastery Charter School
  13. Northeastern University MSN Programs
  14. Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education
  15. Sheppard Pratt
  16. St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
  17. University of Vermont Graduate Admissions
  18. USMAT, Inc.
  19. Xtalpi Inc.
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Note: This event is only open to PhD and Master's students, postdocs, and alumni from the University of New Hampshire and other host universities.

MyIDP is a unique, web-based career-planning, free tool tailored to meet the needs of PhD students and postdocs in the sciences. Creating an Individual Development Plan (IDP) allows you to explore the types of careers that would fit best with your abilities and interests. The platform gives you tools for setting plans to reach professional goals and provides many ways to make sure you stay on track. Additionally, discussing an IDP with a mentor or advisor is a productive way to discover what your coursework and training should focus on.

ImaginePhD is a free online career exploration and planning tool for PhD students and postdoctoral scholars in the humanities and social sciences.

Humanities and social sciences PhD students and their mentors have long recognized the need for more resources to help bridge the knowledge gap between doctoral education and the realm of career possibilities. ImaginePhD is designed to meet this need by allowing users to:

  • assess their career-related skills, interests, and values
  • explore careers paths appropriate to their disciplines
  • create self-defined goals
  • map out next steps for career and professional development success

UNH defines a micro-credential as evidence that reflects attainment of specific skills or competencies. Micro-credentials can be issued for formal and informal academic or professional learning experiences.  A digital badge is one example of a micro-credential. UNH seeks to equip learners with accessible pathways for skill attainment and recognition to better serve our ever-evolving NH economy. Follow this link to view digital bages offered by UNH.

When you create your Handshake profile, you highlight your interests, your studies, and what you're looking for in a job. You indicate the locations you'd like to work in and what job roles interest you most. Handshake takes this info and shows you jobs and internships that are a good fit for you. Visit the Handshake Help Center for resources to help you get started. 

LinkedIn is a great tool for expanding your network and job searching. Take a look at the links below for some helpful tips and resources to help you make the most of it:

Departments and Branches

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At Career and Professional Success we don't just fix resumes, post jobs, and practice interviews. In partnership with faculty, staff, employers, and our global alumni network, we orchestrate opportunities for experiential learning, mentoring, networking, and personal growth, equipping UNH students with the tools to thrive throughout their lives.

Professional Development & Training is an office within the University of New Hampshire whose mission is to serve individuals, businesses, schools, and organizations in New Hampshire and surrounding regions by offering a wide range of professional development opportunities throughout the year.

The Center for Excellence and Innovation in Teaching and Learning strives to promote the highest quality of student learning by providing full-time faculty, part-time faculty, and teaching graduate students with the resources they need to implement in their classrooms the best practices in college teaching.

UNHInnovation advocates for and manages the transfer of UNH-derived ideas to the public to maximize their social and economic impact. UNHI protects, promotes, and manages UNH's innovations, supports start-up companies based on UNH's intellectual property, and develops new opportunities for university and industry collaboration.

The ECenter delivers unique, hands-on, experiential programming that inspires, nurtures, and mentors students from any major, at every step in the process, anywhere from idea development to company creation. We operate as a start-up in an academic environment, and most programs are donor funded. Led by a proven serial entrepreneur, we are rapidly demonstrating significant success throughout the UNH student community. Being co-curricular means we're able to complement what all students are learning in every classroom on campus.

External Resources

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