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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Beyond the Professoriate E-Platform“This is a very useful resource for all grad students. Because the interviews deal with the particular details of that person, a grad student can pull out only what they need. I don’t think it matters what level or program you are in, you can make use of large portions this platform.” - Anonymous UNH Graduate Student survey response.
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Handshake for StudentsHandshake 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.
Upcoming Events
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Dec1011 a.m. - noon
UNH Graduate School Events and Resources
Navigating Graduate School
Navigating graduate school can be a daunting, confusing, difficult, and lonely process. You don't know what you don't know and often times graduate students are not even aware of the questions they should be asking nor of the resources available to them. 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 what resources, tools, and services are available at UNH and beyond.
Graduate School to Career: Navigating the Journey
This annual event series has been designed to help you, a graduate student or post-doc, to understand how to match your career path to your experience and values, teach you the skills to help you land that dream job, and give you the knowledge and tools to plan for your future. You can find descriptions of each event from Fall 2024 below!
Key Themes for This Event: Time Management and Scheduling, Avoiding Common Pitfalls, Networking, Marketing, and Branding Yourself
This interactive session will provide practical tips on how to thrive in graduate school and beyond. Whether you're just starting or deep into your program, this workshop will equip you with the tools to not only survive but excel in your academic and professional journey. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to optimize your future! Facilitated by Dr. Mike Ferguson, UNH Graduate School Faculty Fellow and Assistant Professor of Recreation Management & Policy.
Key Themes for This Event: Job Searches, Interviewing, Networking, Aligning Personal Values with Career Goals, Achieving A Fulfilling Career
This interactive session will provide you with practical strategies and insights to position yourself for a fulfilling career in academia. Whether you're just beginning your graduate journey or approaching its culmination, this workshop will help you clarify your career vision and set actionable goals to turn your academic aspirations into reality. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to chart a rewarding path in academia! Facilitated by Dr. Mike Ferguson, UNH Graduate School Faculty Fellow and Assistant Professor of Recreation Management & Policy.
Key Themes for This Event: Assessing Your Unique Skills and Qualifications, Identifying Your Personal Value, Navigating the Job Search Process in Professional Sectors, Networking, Interviewing
This interactive session will provide you with practical strategies and insights to seamlessly transition from graduate studies to a fulfilling career outside the academic realm. Whether you're at the beginning of your graduate journey or approaching its culmination, this workshop will help you clarify your career vision and set actionable goals to turn your professional aspirations into reality. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to chart a rewarding path beyond academia! Facilitated by Dr. Mike Ferguson, UNH Graduate School Faculty Fellow and Assistant Professor of Recreation Management & Policy.
Online Platforms for Career and Professional Development
To learn more about how to use the tools listed below to help you in graduate school and beyond, set up an appointment with Dr. Jovana Milosavljevic Ardeljan.
Access Beyond the Professoriate
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.
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.
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.
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
The Virtual Career Expo (VCE) is an online career expo for PhD and master’s students, postdocs, and alumni in the Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Humanities, Arts, and Social Science disciplines. The VCE is a place for you to promote your company, highlight types of positions offered, and recruit for current and/or future job opportunities. Attendees will include those looking for information on future careers, as well as those actively searching for positions.
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.
Broader UNH Events and Resources
Resources for Teaching
There are teaching related resources for graduate students through the Teaching & Learning Resource Hub, the UNH Library, and under Modules Section 6 of the "UNH Graduate School Durham" page found on your myCourses Dashboard.
Current or aspiring K-12 educators can find customized graduate courses for teachers that support unique learning opportunities with individualized mentorship and classroom coaching. Please contact Candice.Morey@unh.edu for more information.
Massive Open Online Courses or "MOOCS" focused on teaching and learning in diverse classrooms are offered by Cornell University through the web-based platform edX. MOOCS are usually self-paced and can be enrolled in a any time.
Resources for Networking
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
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.
