Graduate Student Career Services Annual Report 2009-2010 Annual Report – Graduate Student Services The Career Center is committed to providing a full range of services for graduate students across campus. Below is a summary of how many graduate students we served, and in what capacities we did so. Services for Graduate Students
Number of Grad Students
Planned Workshops, Panels, & Events for Graduate Students Requested Graduate Departmental Presentations Miscellaneous Graduate Student Events TOTAL
Number of Events 41 44 3 88
Services for All Students Graduate Student Attendance at Events Open to All Students Graduate Student Participation in Other UWCC Services TOTAL
178 NA 178
741 845 1586
GRAND TOTAL
1853 1004 225 3082
4668
WORKSHOPS, PANELS, AND EVENTS FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS (41 events; 1853 students) Personal Development: (9 events; 87 students) Graduate Student Dependable Strengths Seminar (quarterly;7, 11, 12) o Grad Student DS 3-Week Follow-Up Meeting (quarterly; 7, 7, 7) Two-Part Values Identification & Clarification Workshop for Grad Students (quarterly; 8, 16, 12) Strategies for Success: (6 events; 209 students) Grad School: Arrive & Thrive (15) Building Your Network Step by Step (25) How to Use LinkedIn Effectively (65) Working the Room (39) Working the Room – GOMAP (15) Communicating & Collaborating with Your Research Supervisor (50) Academic Careers: (12 events; 729 students) Getting Started (45) CVs (65) Cover Letters & Letters of Recommendation (80) Teaching Statements (45) Research Statements (40) Interviews (73) Job Talks (75) Negotiations (42) First Year as a Professor (24) Community College Teaching Opportunities (95) Faculty Careers at Teaching-Focused Universities (80) Non-Faculty Positions in Universities for People with Graduate Degrees (65)
Beyond Academia: (14 events; 828 students) Presidential Management Fellowship Information Session (99) How to Find a Job (32) Finding Work Overseas (85) How to Find & Apply to Federal Jobs (47) US Department of State Hometown Diplomat Presentation (25) Resumes & Cover Letters (65) How to Start Your Own Company (83) Interviews (57) Graduate-Level Federal Internships & Fellowships (38) Negotiations (55) Exploring Diverse Employment Sectors: Multiple Pathways to Success – Symposium (106) Grad Student & Postdoc Networking Reception (93) How to Feel Good About Exploring Diverse Career Paths (22) Transitioning to Your First Year on the Job (21)
REQUESTED GRADUATE DEPARTMENTAL PRESENTATIONS (44 events; 1004 students) Workshops: (29 events; 561 students) Audiology (9, 10) Bioenergy IGERT (30) Education, College of (50, 7, 50) Environmental & Occupational Health (11) Germanics (6) Health Administration (10, 6) Information Management (12, 13, 29) Intercollegiate Athletic Leadership (26, 26) Museology (9) Ocean & Fishery Sciences (12) Physical Therapy (10, 32) Physics (10) Public Health Genetics (4) Public Health, School of (25) Social Work (20, 10, 16) Teacher Education (28, 31, 30, 29) Orientations: (15 events; 443 students) Anthropology (9) Civil & Environmental Engineering (78) Earth & Space Sciences (20) Education, College of (50) Forest Resources, College of (51) Immunology (8) Industrial Engineering (11) Information Management (45) Information School (50) International Studies (55) Material Science & Engineering (10) Microbiology (5) The Career Center ∙ Page | 2
Physics (24) Psychology (17) Social Work (10) NOTE – Materials were included in orientation materials for 1 additional department - Chemistry
MISCELLANEOUS GRADUATE STUDENT EVENTS (3 events, 225 students) Brief Remarks or Tabling Requested By: (225 students) Graduate Opportunities & Minority Achievement Program o Getting Connected (100) o Prospective Student Days (100) School of Public Health Career Fair (25) Info About Grad Student Services Presented To: Academic Advisers, UW Advising Summit, September 2009
GRAD STUDENT ATTENDANCE AT EVENTS OPEN TO ALL STUDENTS (178 events, 741 students) Workshops & Events: (741) In-House Workshops (182) Career Fairs (320) Employer Visibility Events (189) Other (50)
GRADUATE STUDENT PARTICIPATION IN OTHER CAREER CENTER SERVICES (845 students) Individual Services: (845 students) Counseling Appointments (316) Walk-In Appointments (230) Mock Interviews (71) On-Campus Interviewing Program (228)
Other Services: (NA) HuskyJobs Online Job/Internship Database (NA) Letters of Evaluation Online (NA)
RESOURCE UPDATES Website: New resources posted to the grad student section of our website in 2009-2010 include: o Finding Work In Other Cities o Handling Rejection o How to Use LinkedIn Effectively o Presidential Management Fellowship
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Marketing: In 2009-2010, we moved our marketing to Convio. o Ten monthly e-newsletters sent to 10,138 grad students Available at - http://careers.washington.edu/GradStudents/Newsletter o Eighteen weekly e-reminders sent Brief paper calendar of grad student career events available at events and in our lobby Job Search: GradStudentJobs listserv – 53 emails about graduate-level jobs were emailed to 1175 subscribers (an increase of 475 subscribers)
COLLABORATIONS Campus Units and Organizations: Graduate School o Professional Development o Fellowships & Assistantships o Center for Instructional Development & Research o Graduate Opportunities & Minority Achievement Program o Office of Postdoctoral Affairs o Communications & Advancement Academic Units o Evans School of Public Affairs o Jackson School of International Studies Alumni Association Counseling Center Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship Panelists from UW: (34) Alumni (18) Faculty (6) Staff (6) Grad students (4) Panelists from Outside the UW: (22) Faculty from other institutions (12) Employers (10)
Report Prepared By: Briana Keller, PhD Assistant Director The Career Center kellerb@uw.edu September 24, 2010
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