October 2019 Professional Development Newsletter for Graduate Students

Welcome to the inaugural monthly newsletter focusing on professional and career development needs of ODU graduate students.

This newsletter is brought to you by ODU Career Pathways, a university-wide career and professional development program for graduate students and post-doctoral scholars. The goal of Career Pathways is to provide professional development and serve as a gateway to resources, programs, events, and planning tools to help bridge graduate school and career success.

Career Pathways offers two Certificates:

Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) Certificate – More info here.
Preparing Future Professionals (PFP) Certificate – More info here.

Watch a short video about Career Pathway.

Make sure you sign up to be added to the Career Pathways e-mail list here. This ensure that you receive up-to-date information about Career Pathways events.

Upcoming Events

• Developing Effective Writing Assignments: How to Design Assignments for Courses You Teach – November 1st from noon to 1.30pm in the Graduate School Multipurpose Room (Monarch Hall Room 2100) or online via Zoom at: bit.ly/CP_zoom
• Introduction to ePortfolio for Graduate Students  – October 22^nd at 3pm and November 12^th at 3pm, in Learning Commons Room 1313 or online via Zoom at: bit.ly/gradepf19
• Cultivating your network of mentors, sponsors, and collaborators – October 17^th from 2 to 3.30pm, in the Graduate School Multipurpose Room (Monarch Hall Room 2100)
• 2019 Fall Career Fair (organized by Career Development Services) – October 29^th from 10.30 am to 2.30am in the Ted Constant Center. More info here

Resources

• National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (NCFDD) – The NCFDD is a nationally-recognized, independent organization that provides online career development and mentoring resources for faculty, graduate students, and post-doctoral scholars. Join NCFDD for free via ODU’s institutional membership! More info here.
• ORCiD – OrCiD is a registry of unique identifiers for researchers and scholars that provides a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes you from other contributors. Have you created your ORCiD? More info here.
  

Becoming a Skilled Researcher

Whether you’re a first year masters student or seasoned doctoral student, the tips and advice from panelists in this workshop will help you kick your research skills into high gear. This workshop (originally hosted on November 2, 2018) include a panel of ODU and NSU researchers who address key skills graduate students should develop to be effective researchers, provide strategies and advice for building research skills, and discuss resources available to build your research skills and support your research. Watch the video here.

Do you know that the ODU Career Pathways events repository has videos of more than 30 professional development events? You can access the repository here.

Contact Wie

Have suggestions for career or professional development events? E-mail Dr. Wie Yusuf, Career Pathways Steering Committee Chair at jyusuf@odu.edu