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Discover resources, connect with mentors, dive deeper into MIT’s 7 professional development competencies, and find out about upcoming events and opportunities.
Graduate professional development is skills-based training complementary to your academic coursework that will augment any career path you decide to follow, within and beyond academe.
Individual Development Plans, or IDPs, are a key professional development tool used within both academia and industry to establish priorities, set goals, and track progress. You can create your own tailored Individual Development Plan to guide you in self-assessment, exploration, goal setting, implementation, recording milestones, and reflection.
By creating and using an IDP, you can optimize your PhD years by planning experiences that will help you build the competencies and skills you need not only to finish your degree but to keep rising throughout your career.
Flagship Programs
Graduate Student of Color Mentoring Circles
The Graduate Student of Color Mentoring Circlesconnect students with alumni who provide culturally relevant perspectives on academic and industry careers. Applications are open for the Spring 2022 cohort. Interested graduate students, email Elsie Otero at eotero@mit.edu.
The Path of Professorship
This exceptional 3-day event for MIT graduate and post-doctoral womxn provides information about academic scientific careers and the application process.
MIT Alumni Advisors Hub
Think of the worldwide community of MIT alumni as a vast and renewable resource that you, as an MIT graduate student, are invited to tap and leverage. Using the Alumni Advisors Hub is one of the most powerful ways there is to augment your technical training. There’s no better source of information and wisdom to inform your journey than the scholars and professionals who have been where you are now, and gone on to discover, teach, influence, and lead with excellence in the world beyond the Infinite Corridor.
Resource Library
Ready to dive in? The Graduate Professional Development Resource Library is a curated collection of articles, web resources, podcasts, books, and more.
Many entities throughout MIT are invested in graduate student professional development. These essential partners fuel our programs and serve as excellent resources for graduate students.
The Office of Graduate Education GradDiversity is preparing to bring undergraduate research interns to campus for the upcoming MIT Summer Research Program (MSRP) and is seeking to hire 16 Pod Leaders, part-time graduate student mentors.
If you are seeking a …
By Amanda Cornwall
Amanda CornwallAssociate Director, Graduate Student Professional Development
Each year, companies from all industries and sizes come to the MIT Media Lab in the Spring to showcase their analytics excellence and recruit analytics talent from multiple disciplines at MIT.
By Amanda Cornwall
Amanda CornwallAssociate Director, Graduate Student Professional Development
Effective visuals are critical in advancing scientific discovery, for peer-to-peer communication, and are becoming ever-more imperative to communicating with the public given the eroding distrust in science. However, with limited resources and tools, visually communicating scientific concepts is challenging (ie: …
By Gaeun Seo | December 6, 2021 | Inside Higher Ed
The faculty interviewing season is upon us! Are you ready for first round interviews? This article has some great tips on what to expect and how to prepare.
“Although specific interview …
By Alexis Boyer
Alexis BoyerAssistant Director of Graduate Student Career Services
In January 2020, the MIT Teaching and Learning Lab hosted Dr. Christine Pfund, who presented how to use the science of effective mentorship to optimize your mentoring practice. Christine Pfund, PhD is a senior scientist with the Wisconsin Center for …
