Understand Yourself

Resources to help you identify your skills:

– Identify your transferrable skills beyond research and teaching.
Build Your Skills – Find out the featured programs and events by the 黑料社区 School to develop or improve your transferrable skills.
Tips on Presenting Your Key Skills to an Employer – Three career tips for how to identify, develop, and communicate your transferrable skills.
– Evaluate the skills you currently have or want to develop.
– The six core competencies that postdocs must seek during their training.
– A list of the transferable skills that a Ph.D. in the humanities gives you.

– Ask yourself the self-assessment questions offered by CCS to identify your career goals, interests, and skills.
Individual Development Plans – The IDP is an excellent self-assessment or goal-setting tool for yourself during your academic years and beyond.
– Gain a better understanding of your career-related skills, interests, and values by taking three free, web-based self-assessments. (For Ph.D. students and postdocs in the humanities and social sciences.)
– A free, web-based career-planning tool for graduate students and postdocs in the sciences to define and pursue their career goals.
– Find a CCS career counselor available to work with you to identify your skills, values, and interests.

– Find out the eight career competencies established by NACE to demonstrate that you are career-ready. These competencies were developed with input from over 600 different employers.
– Learn how to communicate about your competencies to prospective employers during your job search.