Career Preparation and Advising

Unit Description

The Office of Graduate Studies in the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences provides the academic and support services for graduate students across our certificate, master’s, and doctoral programs.

The Dietrich School fosters a culture in which the value of diverse and high-impact careers in the academy, government and the public sector, industry and business, and the non-profit or social impact sector is broadly understood and embraced.

We are committed to empowering Ph.D. students to build and narrate their training as a story of growing competencies in research, synthesis and analysis, communication, project design and management, collaboration and leadership, as well as cultural sensitivity skills as they equip themselves for careers across the academy and beyond.

The Dietrich School—through its graduate programs and the Office of Graduate Studies—as well as the wider university provide resources and training opportunities for graduate students to prepare for career success as future leaders in and beyond the classroom and the academy.

Eligibility

DSAS Humanities Ph.D. students who expect to be enrolled in fall 2022. 

Stipend

$1,600 for ca. 80 hours of effort in summer 2022

Internship Project Overview

Graduate Studies seeks an Administrative Intern for at least 80 hours of commitment to aid with researching existing career preparation and advising support for graduate students, as well as mapping and documenting opportunities for cross-departmental collaboration in these areas and curating a playbook for existing tools and services for graduate students concerned about career readiness.

Responsibilities may include:

• Consulting humanities and social science departments on existing professional development training and career advising
• Developing a working master list of “professional practice,” “career readiness,” and/or “public-facing" focused courses across humanities and social sciences departments
• Documenting graduate orientation agendas across humanities and social science departments
• Creating a quick start guide to help faculty advise students on career options
• Preparing and presenting workshop and training materials

Qualifications

• Strong writing, communications, and social media skills
• Ability to curate useful and appropriate information from diverse and complex extensive sources.
• Ability to follow timeline and meet deadlines
• Self-starting, ability to work independently and take ownership of responsibilities/tasks

Host Unit Mentor

Jon Woon, Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Bill Yost, Director of Graduate Studies

See here for terms and application instructions.