Since the July launch of Career Advising and Professional Development’s new and improved CareerBridge system (which now incorporates a career platform called Handshake), nearly 2,000 diverse opportunities have been posted by employers. The graph shows the distribution of job functions that are included in employer job postings in Handshake since the launch. CAPD’s hope is…
The Edgerton Center has had a busy and fruitful summer, with activities in Cambridge and around the world. The MIT Driverless team, together with the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, built the first-in-the-U.S. driverless electric vehicle. The team competed in the Formula SAE Italy in July, placing second overall and winning first place in…
Career Advising & Professional Development (CAPD) welcomed Siri Chilazi, a research fellow with Harvard’s Women and Public Policy Program, to campus for a talk on the gender pay gap. Chilazi’s three part lecture highlighted the root cause and definition of the gender pay gap, and offered strategies to help us to work towards permanently closing…
Career Advising & Professional Development (CAPD) recently launched an exciting platform, called Handshake, to the CareerBridge student career management system. Students rely on CareerBridge to schedule advising appointments, register for events, sign up for on-campus recruiting, research employers, and apply to opportunities. Handshake utilizes a responsive user interface and advanced machine learning to provide users…
MIT’s inaugural Graduate Student Professional Development Week took place July 22-25, with over 150 graduate student participants. The week of programming introduced student professional development to the Institute and brought over 15 offices together to engage with graduate students throughout the week. The program kicked off with the Inside Scoop, an ice-cream social open house…
The OVC community gathered on June 10 to celebrate the many contributions of staff selected as this year’s recipients of the Infinite Mile Awards. Individuals and teams from across the organization were recognized for excellence in several categories, including communication and collaboration, community, diversity and inclusion, everyday leadership, innovation and creativity, and serving the client.…
Career Advising & Professional Development (CAPD) conducted two PhD & Postdoc Career Planning groups this summer: one in June and one in July, with 38 and 27 attendees respectively. More than 80 pre-registered for the June group, so Jake Livengood, senior assistant director of graduate student career services, and Bob Dolan, assistant director for postdoctoral…
This month, the Teaching and Learning Lab (TLL) is kicking off two workshop series that are open to anyone in the MIT community. “MITeaches: Fostering Inclusion” is a series of workshops and activities that supports MIT faculty, instructors, and teaching assistants in teaching for equity and academic belonging. On Wednesday, August 28, TLL and the…
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