Career Development
The Graduate and Postdoctoral Programs Office (GPPO) and the Career Development Center (CDC) are available to help support, promote, and enhance the professional careers of postdocs throughout the university.
Each year our offices help postdocs prepare for entering the job market through career programming in areas such as Lab Management, Professional Skills, Grant Writing, and Job Skills but to name a few.
All our professional development courses, workshops, and resources, including your Individual Development Plan (IDP) allow you to develop the skills you need for a successful and rewarding career.
You will also find access to Asynchronous Learning Content that will help benefit you in your Postdoc journey here at NYUAD.
NYUAD Postgrad Calendar
All events organised by the Graduate and Postdoctoral Programs Office are centrally available on the Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Calendar. You can access this by going to the Intranet link below (must be logged into NYU).
Asynchronous Learning Content
We provide access to many types of asynchronous online learning platforms at no cost to you.
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The Versatile Ph.D. is a web-based, socially positive business that helps universities provide graduate students with non-academic professional development. Our mission is to help graduate students and PhDs envision, prepare for, and excel in non-academic careers.
We want doctoral students to be informed about academic employment realities, educated about their non-academic career options, and supported in preparing for a wide range of careers so that in the end, they have choices. The key concept here is versatility: the ability to apply skills, abilities, and interests in various positions and fields.
*Please note that if it is your first time signing into Versatile Ph.D., you will also need to register with your NYU email address
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ImaginePhD is a free online career exploration and planning tool for PhD students and postdoctoral scholars in the humanities and social sciences.
Humanities and social sciences PhD students and their mentors have long recognized the need for more resources to help bridge the knowledge gap between doctoral education and the realm of career possibilities. ImaginePhD is designed to meet this need by allowing users to:
- assess their career-related skills, interests, and values
- explore careers paths appropriate to their disciplines
- create self-defined goals
- map out the next steps for career and professional development success
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myIDP - a unique, web-based career-planning tool tailored to meet the needs of Ph.D. students and postdocs in the sciences.
myIDP provides:
- Exercises to help you examine your skills, interests, and values
- A list of 20 scientific career paths with a prediction of which ones best fit your skills and interests
- A tool for setting strategic goals for the coming year, with optional reminders to keep you on track
- Articles and resources to guide you through the process
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STEMPeers TM is a 501(c)(3) organization registered in PA as PhD Career Support Group. The organization helps creates a growing network of STEM scientists that is involved in peer-to-peer mentoring and support.
STEMPeers has several online initiatives to its credit like Gurukool (A platform that helps people during job transitions via peer mentoring), ClubSciwri, The STEM times, MedNess, The Newsletter and Jidnyasa.
They have two annual conferences- Annual STEMPeers conference in USA and EuroSTEMPeers in Europe.
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Beyond the Professoriate is the only online professional development training platform for graduate students, postdocs, faculty, and PhDs that helps them successfully transition into academic or nonacademic careers. This research-driven platform is informed by nearly a decade of experience supporting PhDs to launch new careers with their skills and training.
Trusted by over 30 institutions (and growing), the platform helps grad students and PhDs leverage their education into meaningful careers, whether in academia or beyond the professoriate.
When logging in, choose 'New York University' as your Institution
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Hosted by Professor Emmanuel Tsekleves, Professor in Global Health Design Innovation at Lancaster University. The Early Career Researcher Mentoring Program is designed to provide comprehensive support and guidance to PhDs and postdocs pursuing academic and research careers.
The Program
The Early Career Researcher Mentoring Program is designed to provide comprehensive support and guidance to PhDs and postdocs pursuing academic and research careers. The program is designed to help with training Postdocs and PhD students with how to be successful in a career pathway in the Academy. Whether you want to become a professor, or stay in academic research, this program is for you. Our host Professor Emmanuel Tsekleves has mentored over 50 PhDs and postdocs, helping them find their footing, secure academic jobs, and flourish in faculty roles.
The program comprises a 5-days of mandatory in-person delivery (+2 additional optional days), complemented by offline materials and resources, 1:1 live Zoom sessions for 6 months following the program delivery, and asynchronous resources based on the 5P approach for accessibility by the entire postdoc/PhD student population at NYUAD.
Over the course of 5 days, you will build your:
- Researcher Confidence & Independence: Trainees will develop skills to take ownership of their research, conduct independent research and make informed decisions about the next steps in their career.
- Researcher Identity: Trainees will explore their identity as researchers in their discipline and develop a strong academic brand and online presence.
- Research Communication Skills: Trainees will learn effective strategies for communicating their research to various audiences.
- Grant Writing Skills: Trainees will acquire knowledge and techniques for identifying funding opportunities, understanding review processes, and crafting compelling grant proposals.
- Research Publication Skills: Trainees will develop a systematic approach to writing and publishing high-quality research articles.
- Professional and Academic & Career Development Skills: Trainees will learn strategies for building professional networks, finding mentors, mentoring up and down, and navigating academic career paths.
Asynchronous Resources
For those of you who were not able to attend the program, or want to refresh the content that was covered, we are happy to offer resources in both video and offline materials formats. The program has created asynchronous content to allow you to learn at a time of your choice, and to refer back to the content shared by Professor Tsekleves.
You can find the link to the NYUAD Intranet page below to access these resources (Only accessible through NYU SSO Login).