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Career Advising and Professional Development act as a hub within MIT’s career advising universe to help students, postdocs, and recent alums navigate the many different career resources available across the Institute. As faculty and staff, you are important parts of that universe, and we want to work with you to ensure MIT students and postdocs can accomplish their career goals.

As we work with all majors and all levels on their career and professional development goals, we partner with departments in many ways and always value feedback on how to best partner with you to serve your students, postdocs, and recent alums.

Quick facts: 2021 Virtual Fall Career Fair Series

Building on the model developed in 2020, MIT’s 2021 Fall Career Fair — a student-run event supported by Career Advising and Professional Development (CAPD) — was hosted virtually on the Brazen platform. Employer booths were split across three dates, based on industry: …

By Lydia Huth
Lydia Huth Communication and Program Manager
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Maria Zuber on MIT’s Strategic Action Plan for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Postdocs who feel safe taking risks benefit MIT’s research community, says MIT’s vice president for research.

Q: How do you think the plan will impact the lives of MIT community members, most especially postdocs?

A: Postdocs come to MIT from …

By MIT News
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How MIT Departments Can Gain Access to Handshake

Career Advising and Professional Development uses Handshake as our career management system, a tool for scheduling appointments with us and managing campus interviews, off-campus recruiting, job-search information, and event registration.  CAPD offers three options for academic and administrative departments to …

By Deborah Liverman
Deborah Liverman Executive Director, Career Advising & Professional Development
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Featured Resources

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Comprehensive job sites that list academic positions (higher education) at all different levels and for all fields (mostly focused within …

MIT is a hub of passionate students, staff, and faculty working on critical climate and sustainability challenges, but with so …

Career Advising and Professional Development uses Handshake (learn more in our Handshake 101 guide) as our career management system, a …

Industry job shadows help MIT students explore their career options

Industry job shadows are in-person opportunities for MIT first years …

Participants in “Building Technology: The Computational Design, Engineering, and Fabrication of Large Scale Sculptural Rope Networks” investigated the work of …

In W. E. B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America (Princeton Architectural Press, 2018), editors Whitney Battle-Baptiste and Britt …