Events

Join us to celebrate at the Office of Career & Life Design's Launch Party! Meet the team, get your professional headshot taken, learn more about how graduate students and postdocs can take advantage of their programs and resources and more!

Are you a graduate student or postdoc looking to enhance your LinkedIn profile? Come to our interactive LinkedIn Lab event! Pair up with peers to review and improve your LinkedIn profiles, and get expert advice on crafting a compelling headline, summary, and experience sections that highlight your skills and achievements.

Sharing your research effectively requires delivering a clear message in an engaging way. In this session, participants will build storytelling skills by applying techniques based on narrative, neuroscience and presentations from TED Talks.

Learn how to network effectively and build meaningful, two-way relationships at an upcoming site visit in this interactive virtual workshop with the Office of Career and Life Design! Identify where you can add value, refine your messaging, and practice strategies to connect.

Join us for the International Students Visa Info Session, where we’ll dive into everything you need to know about immigration options after graduation!

Learn how to ace technical interviews for graduate-level roles in data science, machine learning, AI and other data roles in this interactive workshop with Microsoft hiring managers and UT alumni, hosted at Microsoft’s Austin Office.

Contributing to your scholarly field involves joining a conversation that others have been conducting in journals, at conferences and through research advancements. Rigorous research builds upon this conversation while contributing new knowledge, in many ways following a similar structure to improvised performance.

Overcome any reservations you might have about professional networking in live situations. During this interactive session, attendees will learn how to effectively identify and approach potential professional contacts with a keen understanding of professional etiquette. Participants will leave with resources and an action plan for who they want to meet with, core questions to ask and how to create an authentic connection to most effectively establish and build a professional network.

Come meet with alumni and recruiters in a relaxed environment. Ask alumni about their career journey, from academia into industry, their current role, advice on entering the job market and ways to be a competitive candidate.

Looking to find balance and joy in your busy life? Want to make more intentional decisions about your future? Join our workshop over lunch on design thinking mindsets and practices. You'll use empathy, curiosity and collaboration to design small changes for a more satisfying life. Tackle an aspect of your life where you seek clarity, try new things and learn from others. Gain valuable insights and tools from the life design framework to explore multiple possible futures. Take the first step towards a more balanced and joyful life. Join the Office of Career & Life Design and Urmila Venkatesh, former Life Design Fellow and Assistant Dean of Career Education for PhDs and Postdocs at Stanford to kick off the life design learning community.