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Faculty/Staff

Welcome to the faculty/staff page!

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.

CAPD offers new behavioral interviewing resource for PhDs & postdocs

We know our students can talk about their research, but can they talk about themselves? CAPD’s new Behavioral Interviewing for PhDs & Postdocs online resource offers students an asynchronous opportunity to brainstorm accomplishments from their MIT experiences, structure their stories, …

By Lydia Huth
Lydia Huth Communication and Program Manager
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QS ranks MIT the world’s No. 1 university for 2025-26

Ranking at the top for the 14th year in a row, the Institute also places first in 11 subject areas.

MIT News, posted on June 18, 2025

MIT has again been named the world’s top university by the QS World …

By Francis Borrego
Francis Borrego Associate Director, Employer Relations 
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Building a Network: Digital and In-Person Strategies for Students, Recent Graduates, and Postdocs

The following article is from Trevor Cambron’s post for the MIT Communications Lab

Networking. For some it is a loaded word that induces a visceral sense of dread, while for others it is a natural part of the workday. In …

By Tara Thakurta
Tara Thakurta Graduate Community Fellow
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Introducing the brand new Communication and Technology Studio at the WCC

The Writing and Communication Center (WCC) has launched a new Communication and Technology Studio to help you enhance your public speaking skills. At the studio, you can practice your presentations in front of simulated audiences and receive instant feedback from …

By Tara Thakurta
Tara Thakurta Graduate Community Fellow
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Three MIT students named 2026 Schwarzman Scholars

Julia Mongo | Office of Distinguished Fellowships
Published by MIT News on January 15, 2025

Three MIT students — Yutao Gong, Brandon Man, and Andrii Zahorodnii — have been awarded 2025 Schwarzman Scholarships and will join the program’s 10th cohort to pursue a master’s degree …

By Lydia Huth
Lydia Huth Communication and Program Manager
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Career Advising and Professional Development uses Handshake (learn more in our Handshake 101 guide) as our career management system, a …

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[Video] In Tension: Workshop with MIT CAST Distinguished Visiting Artist Janet Echelman

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

[Video] W. E. B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits: A Conversation with Whitney Battle-Baptiste and Britt Rusert

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

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