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

Sep 21 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm

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iJOBS Site Visit: Amgen

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Sep 27 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

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iJOBS Career Panel: Jobs for PhDs in Environmental Health and Safety at Universities

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Oct 2 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm

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iJOBS Workshop: Top Design Tips for Better Posters using BioRender

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Oct 4 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

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iJOBS Workshop: Find the Right Fit for Your Future Job with Clifton Strengths Personality Assessment

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Oct 9 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

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iJOBS Career Panel: Patent Specialists and Attorneys

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Oct 17 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

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iJOBS Seminar: FDA Drug Approval and Case Study

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Oct 25 9:00 am - 1:00 pm

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iJOBS Annual Symposium 2023

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Nov 2 10:30 am - 2:00 pm

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iJOBS Company Visit to Campus: Merck

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