Career Resources
The Career Center
3200 Student Activities Building
Phone: 764-7460
E-mail: careercenter@umich.edu
The Career Center can assist you in making career decisions and conducting effective job searches. Seminars, career conferences, individual sessions with career counselors, an extensive career library, and technological resources are available to help you in making and implementing career choices. Information is provided on numerous career options, summer job and internship opportunities, and job search strategies. In addition, letters of recommendation are housed at the Career Center as a service to you, once you have completed at least 12 hours of course work at the University. These files are useful if you need a written recommendation as a job seeker. When graduating, you may utilize on-campus recruiting activities and the online recruitment system to complement your total job search effort. The Career Center’s Job Bulletin is available online and in print, and is one of the many job listings available to keep you updated on nationwide vacancies. Office hours are 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday.
The Center for Research on Learning and Teaching
1071 Palmer Commons
Phone: 764-0505
The Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT) has a GSI Training and Development Program which provides several services to graduate student instructors. For more information about any of the services listed below, please call 764-0505.
Teaching Orientations for New GSIs are held before both the fall and winter semesters. The programs are designed to help prepare GSIs for their first teaching experiences.
Teaching Workshops for GSIs are held throughout the fall and winter semesters and cover a wide range of topics (for example, discussion, critical thinking, speaking skills, testing, questioning, using visual aids, lecturing).
Individual Consulting is available for all GSIs, including observation of a class and consultation afterwards, videotaping of a class, collection of mid-semester feedback from students, discussion of problems, and help with innovative ideas. A Guidebook for University of Michigan Graduate Student Instructors is available upon request to all GSIs. It contains articles on preparing to teach, teaching diverse learners, getting students involved in learning, asking questions, giving lectures, testing, improving your teaching, and other topics. It also contains a list of resources for instructors. Also available for lab instructors is a Guidebook for Teaching Labs for University of Michigan Graduate Student Instructors.
The International Graduate Student Instructor (IGSI) Workshop (co-sponsored by CRLT and the English Language Institute) is available specifically for non-native graduate students to prepare for their roles as GSIs.
A resource room with relevant books, articles, and videotapes on teaching and learning topics is located in CRLT.
Student Evaluations of instructors are administered through the Office of Evaluations and Examinations located at 200 Hill Street, 764-3497.
Engineering Career Resource Center (ECRC)
230 Chrysler Center
Phone: 647-7160
E-mail: ecrc-info@umich.edu
The Engineering Career Resource Center (ECRC) provides a variety of services and programs to meet your career needs. Their goal is to prepare all Michigan Engineering students for career success by providing the leadership, resources, and networks to facilitate the transition process between school and work. We strive to meet all your career development needs while attending the College and beyond. Their primary services include career advising, a career resource library, job postings, campus interviews through EnginTrak online recruiting system, workshops and employer presentations, on-campus recruitment interviews, an electronic resume referral service and internships. Be sure to visit their website as many of their services are web-based.
The Alumni Association
200 Fletcher
Phone: 764-0384
The Alumni Association, with more than 100,000 members, has worked to unite alumni on behalf of the University for over 150 years. It sponsors an active and respected student organization, the Student Alumni Council (SAC), which marshals alumni and Association resources to enhance student life. SAC also runs the annual Tuition Raffle and Parents Weekend and the Alumni Networks career advising program. Many of the Association’s local clubs raise money for scholarships, recruit students, and sponsor annual student send-off programs. Parents can join the Association and take advantage of all of its benefits, including networking and career services; discounts on hotels and rental cars; group health, life, auto, and homeowners insurance programs; priority consideration for seasonal football tickets; playing privileges at the U-M golf course; regional educational, recreational and social activities; and the award-winning Michigan Alumnus magazine.
Off Campus Resources
The Chronicle of Higher Education Job Listing
The Chronicle maintains a Career Network website featuring lots of information for those seeking jobs either inside or outside of the academy.
Visit: The Chronicle of Higher Education Job Listing
PostdocJobs.com
PostdocJobs.com is the first website that exclusively provides postdoctoral job information since 1999. It has hundreds of postdoctoral positions advertised by Universities and Government agencies.
Link: PostdocJobs.com
Re-envisioning the Ph.D., Obtaining Employment
Include online resources,discussion groups, relevant publications, information about virtual and on-site Ph.D. career fairs, information about jobs/postdocs/funding, and a listing of universities'/colleges' promising practices dealing with professional development for graduate students.