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Spring 2025 Graduate Student Mentoring Circles

CAPD

Looking to Connect with MIT Alumni? Are you hoping to get real-world career advice from MIT alumni this spring? Youll have the chance to connect directly with MIT alumni mentors who bring diverse perspectives and valuable insights from across industries. Join Spring 2025 Graduate Student Mentoring Circles! Whats in it for you?

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Co-creating a more sustainable framework for professional development for our UG students

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Photo of PALS training day Back in January 2018, a group of staff and students in the Business School got their collective heads around the table to address the problem: ‘How can we get our UG students to engage more in their personal and professional development?’

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Biotech boot camp at Villanova exposes students to career paths

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Villanova University took a new approach on translating major skills into career opportunities for students with its biotechnology boot camp, introducing learners to alumni and employers in a difficult-to-enter field. Alumni represented a variety of career levels, with younger graduates from the 2010s up to graduates from the 1980s.

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PhD & Postdoc Career Night draws over 200 participants

CAPD

On March 16, Career Advising and Professional Development hosted our first PhD & Postdoc Career Night. Our planning team conceptualized this event consisting of four PhD/postdoc alumni panels in the afternoon alongside an evening networking session featuring employers from a variety of different fields and organizations.

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Tips for building your AmeriCorps service into a career

College Forward

Since AmeriCorps members can serve in various capacities, the type of professional development varies. Eight ways to leverage your AmeriCorps network: Develop your AmeriCorps service pitch: What was the impact and how did you grow? Tap into the network: AmeriCorps organizations exist all over the country, and so do alumni.

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Curriculum Mapping: Skills Matrices and Edinburgh Award

Teaching Matters Student Employment

These matrices provide the cornerstone of the Business School’s MSc Edinburgh Award in Professional Development. The MSc Edinburgh Award in Professional Development now has 216 students actively participating, making it one of the most successful versions of the Award currently offered within the university.

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A recap of the 2023-24 MIT Career Exploration Series

CAPD

The Career Exploration Series is an initiative led by Career Advising & Professional Development (CAPD) at MIT to promote career exploration throughout the fall and IAP for students and postdocs. 1,818 students, postdocs, and recent alumni attended the events. 1,635 during the fall and 183 during IAP.

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