Career Exploration

From exploring potential career paths to figuring out what to wear for a big job interview, we’re here to help you pursue success while you’re a Rutgers student and long after you graduate.

Career Exploration and Success (CES) is committed to assisting students with making connections between their academic experience and career paths. We provide career-related advising, resources, and programs to help individuals discover their interests, values, and skills, explore careers and majors, develop skills through internships and experiential opportunities, and pursue their post-graduate goals. 

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E-learning platform by Beyond the Professoriate

Beyond the Professoriate helps grad students and PhDs leverage their education into meaningful careers, whether in academia or beyond. We have resources to support individuals and partner with institutions to help PhDs and grad students land jobs in: Industry, Non-Profit, Higher Education Administration, Faculty, and the Private Sector.

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This free online career exploration and planning tool gives PhD students and postdoctoral scholars in the humanities and social sciences an easy way to assess their career-related skills, interests, and values, explore career paths, define goals, and map out next steps.

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The Rutgers University iJOBS Program, funded by the National Institutes of Health, exposes life science PhD students and postdocs to a range of non-academic career options and empowers them to pursue their career goals.

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Individual Development Plans (IDPs) are personalized mentoring and professional development tools to facilitate graduate students’ goal-setting, professional planning, and communication with mentors.

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Upcoming employment events

Jan 28 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

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iJOBS Seminar: New Immigration Pathway for Industry Jobs through Rutgers J-1 STEM Research Sponsorship Program

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Jan 31 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

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iJOBS Seminar: Scholar Mentoring and Diversity Program for Biotechnology (SMDP)

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Feb 6 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

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iJOBS Workshop: How to design an effective chalk talk

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Feb 13 10:30 am - 11:45 am

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iJOBS Workshop: Transitioning from academic to industry and the cross functional teams involved in drug discovery

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Feb 19 11:30 am - 1:00 pm

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iJOBS Seminar: Advice from an Immigration Attorney

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Feb 20 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

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iJOBS and Eagleton Career Panel: Science Policy

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Feb 24 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

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iJOBS and Erdos Institute Seminar: Data Science and AI in Drug Discovery by Brandon Higgs, PhD

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Feb 27 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

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iJOBS Workshops: Financial Planning for Graduate Students and Postdocs

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