Career Tools & Resources to Help You Succeed

UCLA PhD Melanie Ho offers insights into how to conduct a successful informational interview.

Use this resource to identify your professional development needs and create a development plan to guide your future.

Crowdsourcing platforms provide opportunities to gain experience working on real projects across industries. Explore this list of crowdsourcing platforms that can be useful to help build your portfolio and develop new skills.

This worksheet is intended to help you organize your values/needs in a position compared to the job offer. It is not intended to suggest that you negotiate on all points, just to merely consider what is most important to you.

The average time to secure a job is typically 6-12 months. The closer you are to completing your degree/training, the more time you should dedicate to the job search. Use this worksheet to develop a plan of action and guide your job search time.

Use this worksheet to help you identify your strengths as a candidate for a particular job, areas of improvement, and networking/training opportunities.

Use this list of transferable skills to start identifying and prioritizing your skills gained as a graduate student, postdoc, and through other experiences.

Use this worksheet to reflect on the values that are most important in your current and future work.

A quick overview of the filters and sorting tools on Handshake to help optimize your job/internship search experience.

Learn about the variety of resources and benefits available to students on Handshake.

Want to stay up to date on current industry trends? Learn about the top employers and industries currently hiring on Handshake in addition to the primary job roles and number of opportunities for each industry group. Updated quarterly.

The academic cover letter communicates your scholarly fit with a position, organization and department. Use this template to help build a cover letter than expands on your accomplishments and outlines your future trajectory.

Enhance your resume or CV with this list of active verbs.

A Cover Letter is a tailored one -page document that provides context and in depth examples of your skills, knowledge, experience and ft for the position. Use this template as a guide when preparing a cover letter for your application materials.

What's the difference between a CV and resume? See this guide for the answer.

View an example of a well-written resume for Humanities and Social Science PhD students.

Each resume should be specific to the job position for which you are applying. See an example of how this PhD-level resume is tailored to the position.

View an example of a well-written resume for North Campus Master's students.

Learn the components of a CV with this non-discipline specific template.

View an example of a well-written resume for South Campus Master's students.

View an example of a well-written resume for STEM PhD students.