Career Exploration

From exploring potential career paths to figuring out what to wear for a big job interview, we’re here to help you pursue success while you’re a Rutgers student and long after you graduate.

Career Exploration and Success (CES) is committed to assisting students with making connections between their academic experience and career paths. We provide career-related advising, resources, and programs to help individuals discover their interests, values, and skills, explore careers and majors, develop skills through internships and experiential opportunities, and pursue their post-graduate goals. 

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This free online career exploration and planning tool gives PhD students and postdoctoral scholars in the humanities and social sciences an easy way to assess their career-related skills, interests, and values, explore career paths, define goals, and map out next steps.

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The Rutgers University iJOBS Program, funded by the National Institutes of Health, exposes life science PhD students and postdocs to a range of non-academic career options and empowers them to pursue their career goals.

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Individual Development Plans (IDPs) are personalized mentoring and professional development tools to facilitate graduate students’ goal-setting, professional planning, and communication with mentors.

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Upcoming employment events

Aug 25 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm

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iJOBS Networking Event: New Jersey BioPharma Networking Group

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Sep 8 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

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iJOBS Case Study: Medical Affairs Careers

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Sep 16 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

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Fellowship Application Workshop for Biomedical PhD students

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Sep 17 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

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iJOBS Site Visit: Bristol Myers Squibb New Brunswick

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