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CGU Career Center updated their address.

CGU Career Center updated their address.

Knowing when to drink alcohol, and how much, at professional events (opinion)

To drink or not to drink at professional development events, read more to see some suggestions.

insidehighered.com Natalie Lundsteen offers advice for graduate trainees and postdocs negotiating the dos and don'ts of drinking alcohol at professional events when potential employers are present -- and watching.

Grad students need to improve their teamwork skills to become more attractive to employers (opinion)

Teamwork skills is in the top 5 skills employers want.

insidehighered.com Ads for both academic and nonacademic jobs highlight teamwork, writes Pallavi Eswara, who give tips on how to develop those skills and then demonstrate you possess them.

Grad students must start thinking about career development early on (opinion)

This is the CGU CDO philosophy too--come early and often!

insidehighered.com Stephanie K. Eberle advises graduate students to start thinking about career development early in their education.

Therapy dogs join CGU during finals week to help students re-energize!

5 Tips to Overcoming Burnout as a College Student - Concorde Career College

As we prepare for the second half of the semester, here are 5 tips to help you avoid our not so welcome friend, Burnout.

https://www.concorde.edu/blog/burnout-in-health-care-degree

concorde.edu College is a stressful time no matter where you go or what degree you pursue. At Concorde, we help you earn your health care degree without burning out.

Rocket is here!!!! Come pet a comfort dog and relieve your stress. He's her today until 1 pm!!

The pros and cons of backup career plans (essay)

Read this artice on the value of having a back up plan http://bit.ly/2cqb1pi

insidehighered.com

PHD Comic: In School

http://phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1891

We are back in school!

phdcomics.com Link to Piled Higher and Deeper

A Comedian and an Academic Walk Into a Podcast …

Comedy and the academy converging together? Check it.

http://www.chronicle.com/article/A-Comedianan-Academic/237715

chronicle.com Shane Mauss, a stand-up comic who likes picking professors’ brains, has become an unlikely but engaging science educator.

"Careers for Humanists" Workshop with Christine Kelly

http://cgu-sah.doomby.com/diary/humanities-forum/careers-for-humanists-workshop-with-christine-kelly.html

cgu-sah.doomby.com The Career Development Office and the School of Arts and Humanities invites you to "Careers for Humanists" RSVP on ClaremontConnect/Handshake or email [email protected]. Getting a degree in the humanities is not a vow of poverty. There is a wide ...

New study suggests continued bias in academic conference panel selections

"The frustrations about all-male or largely male panels extend to many disciplines." The latest from Inside Higher Ed.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/09/07/new-study-suggests-continued-bias-academic-conference-panel-selections?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=2efe45949d-DNU20160907&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-2efe45949d-197473405&mc_cid=2efe45949d&mc_eid=2c14e768e8

insidehighered.com

The Laborers of Academia

http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/graduate-students-the-laborers-of-academia

Check out this piece from The New Yorker about unions, graduate school, and the academy.

newyorker.com We have had fifty years to find out if unions destroy graduate education. They don’t.

Your Anxiety’s Fall TV Lineup

Beginning-of-the-semester anxiety got you down? Check out this satirical piece to get some laughter in for Friday.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/09/05/your-anxietys-fall-tv-lineup-by-hallie-cantor

newyorker.com Shouts & Murmurs: Highlights include “Extreme Home Jealousy,” “Not Nearly Enough S*x and the City,” and “Emotional Survivor.”

Know What You Don’t Know

Know what you don't know once you've got the job.

https://chroniclevitae.com/news/1525-know-what-you-don-t-know

chroniclevitae.com Start your new job with a good sense of how to find out what they didn't teach you in grad school.

How to identify your core values in your career exploration process (essay)

Do you know your career values? Read this article to learn more about connecting your core values to your career.
http://bit.ly/2bAk6LR

insidehighered.com Much of the conversation about career exploration focuses on the importance of identifying our skills, but we often don’t take the time to think about our core values and how they connect to our skills, argues Laura N. Schram.

Know the difference between your worth and your value in job negotiations (essay)

Read this cautionary tale of the importance of learning how to effectively negotiate a job offer. We can help you with that at the CDO!!!! http://bit.ly/2aJMBvj

insidehighered.com They are not synonymous, especially in the career arena, writes Michael A. Matrone, and you should not allow greed to damage good relations between you and a future employer.

Using marketing principles as a job seeker (essay)

http://bit.ly/2aS1sUa

insidehighered.com To do that, you have to have a product worth selling and know how to sell it to a particular segment of customers, advises Joseph Barber.

PHD Comic: Summer To Do

What's on your summer to-do list? Happy Friday Claremont Graduate University students!

http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1521

phdcomics.com Link to Piled Higher and Deeper

Career Development Office Director Christine Kelly knows that one in the hand is better than two in the bush. Have you checked out Claremont Graduate University's new platform for ClaremontConnect powered by Handshake? Check it out here:

https://cgu.joinhandshake.com/

Online Survey Software | Qualtrics Survey Solutions

Hey Claremont Graduate University students! The Career Development Office is conducting a survey to see what will best serve YOU in the upcoming academic year. Take the survey here and be entered to win a gift card to Huntley Bookstore (get those Sharpie pens ready for a new year!). Looking forward to hearing your voice.

https://cgu.co1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_50i33kKuzhCHBdj

cgu.co1.qualtrics.com Qualtrics sophisticated online survey software solutions make creating online surveys easy. Learn more about Research Suite and get a free account today.

How Hard Is It to Get Tenure?

http://bit.ly/2acTL7g

chroniclevitae.com It’s stressful for everyone but your department wants you to succeed.

How can we best help you?!! The CDO is conducting a survey to find out what YOU want so we can tailor our programming and services to your needs. In case you haven't received the email, here's the link http://bit.ly/2a961DC The survey is anonymous, but if you'd like to be entered into our drawing for a gift card from the Huntley (school) book store please provide your email at the end. We will not connect your responses with your email address.

Thanks! The CDO team
Christine Kelly
Emily Schuck
Ivy Carrete
Malcolm Oliver
Michelle Alexandrowicz

To foster trans inclusion in higher ed, start in the classroom (essay)

http://bit.ly/2a1uMF0

insidehighered.com Faculty members should identify gaps in their knowledge about gender, learn about transgender and nonbinary students, and implement some specific pedagogical practices, writes Stacy Jane Grover.

Handshake

New MA/MS students, spending the afternoon having lunch alone? Join Claremont Graduate University's Career Development Office for a webinar on how to be a masters student.

https://cgu.joinhandshake.com/events/17210/share_preview - Register on handshake and we'll meet you there! (We won't know if you're in your PJ's or not, either!)

cgu.joinhandshake.com

Happy Friday from the Career Development Office! Ever feel like this?

Claremont Graduate University students! Join us tomorrow for a workshop on creating a career roadmap!

Ph.D. candidates should consider careers other than in the faculty (essay)

http://bit.ly/29ymy9O

insidehighered.com You can love your field, your specialty area and academe, but sometimes they won't love you back, writes Christine Kelly.

The importance of reaching out for support when job searching (essay)

https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2016/06/20/importance-reaching-out-support-when-job-searching-essay

Reach out for support! We're here at the CGU Career Center to help! Make a summer appointment today.

insidehighered.com

Academic Job Hunts From Hell: Why You Weren’t Picked

Didn't get that academic job? This may give some insight into why.
http://bit.ly/1sMEqBs

chronicle.com Nuclear errors, incompetent committees, and other reasons you weren’t offered the job.

Your professional reputation begins with professionalism (essay)

Becoming a professional
http://bit.ly/1WfGC0S

insidehighered.com To advance you must interact with others, and the manner in which you do so affects your professional reputation, writes Michael A. Matrone.

The advantages of working with a buddy in a job search (essay)

Don't go it alone while job searching--get a buddy!!
http://bit.ly/1TWscyY

insidehighered.com If you want to be efficient and effective during your job search, you should collaborate with a partner -- or even several partners -- to help achieve each other's goals, advises Thomas Magaldi.

What We Look for in a New Part-Time Hire

http://bit.ly/1Wl7q06 Advice for success in the Community College interview.

chroniclevitae.com We’re hoping there’s a genuine human being tucked into that interview suit — one who is clear, confident, honest, and self-reflective.

502: Tunnel Connection Failed

Careers for PhDs. Response to recent Atlantic article calling for shuttering PhD programs.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/careers-phds-response-atlantic-a-j-aronstein

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