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Coffee Chats for Graduate Students: Informational Interviewing

The topic for this session is informational interviewing, which can be a powerful tool to aid in your career exploration as well as networking and job search efforts. We’ll talk about the purpose of an informational interview, how to identify people to interview, how...

Coffee Chats for Graduate Students: Are You LinkedIn?

Building your network is something you can be doing proactively throughout graduate school.  Additionally, learning from what others have done in their career is a great way to explore areas of interest. Join us to learn how to navigate and develop the basics of your...

Building and Leveraging Your Network

Building a network and connecting with others is critical to your professional development in graduate school and job/internship searches. Join this discussion to learn strategies for building your network (including tips on using LinkedIn and the University Career...

Articulating and Leveraging Your Transferable Skills

This workshop will explore the many transferable skills you have gained during graduate school and how to translate these skills to the non-academic job market. We’ll review transferable skills employers value (e.g., collaboration, critical thinking, project...

Eighth Annual Rackham King Talks

Rackham Graduate students will communicate the relevance of their work to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy in a TED-talk style. The 2025 MLK Symposium theme is “Restless Dissatisfaction: An Urgent Call for the Pursuit of Justice and Equality.” This theme is...

Recognizing Racism in Everyday Life

During this workshop participants will have the opportunity to learn terms associated with racism/anti-racism as well as power and oppression and their impact in the global and U.S. context. Additionally, participants will be able to recognize microaggressions and...