Career Insights for Graduate Students
On this page, you can read blogs and watch recordings of events that showcase career insights from alums with graduate degrees, employers, and graduate students. These events include Expand Your Career Options, Employer Insights, and Industry Insights.
Alum Insights features graduate degree level alums working in different career fields, sharing their career paths and advice.
Graduate Student Insights includes a collection of blogs that highlight career stories shared by graduate students who have worked as Graduate Assistants outside their academic departments or held leadership roles in graduate student organizations.
This section offers information session content sometimes provided by recruiters,
The “Industry Insights” section provides an overview of the event series and includes a link to its main page, which features sessions highlighting a variety of industries for graduate students and postdocs.
Alum Insights
The following blogs recap alum panelists’ career paths and insights shared at the Expand Your Career Options events.
Recognizing that graduate students go into and succeed in a range of careers, Expand Your Career Options, a series of events, features graduate degree level alums who pursue their careers in various fields. It is created with doctoral students and postdoc scholars in mind.
- Research Roles After Your Doctoral Degree
- One Entrepreneur’s Journey
- Postdoc Pathways
- Higher Ed Professionals with PhD
- Early Career Faculty
- Research in User Experience and Education
- Within the Education Industry
- The Nonprofit Sector
- Consulting
- Research Beyond Academia
The blogs below feature career stories from doctoral alums:
- Graduate Training to Enduring Expertise: Clara Ramirez, ‘24 PhD
- Purpose, Resilience, and Direction Beyond: Svetlana Gelpi, ‘21 PhD in Computational Chemistry
Graduate Student Insights
The blog series Enhancing Career Readiness: Doctoral Students in Leadership Roles and Doctoral Students at Work, features students who work in non-academic departments and/or serve in a leadership position in a graduate student organization. They share their experience and insights about their roles in a professional work environment and the development of new skills.
Doctoral Students in Leadership Roles Blogs
- Aayushi Verma’s Leadership Experience from the John Lof Leadership Academy (JLLA) and the GradLife Committee in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE)
- Alaa Selim’s Leadership Experience from the Graduate Student Senate (GSS) and John Lof Leadership Academy (JLLA)
- Mayowa Oladele’s Leadership Experience from Student Association of Graduate Engineers (SAGE)
- Lauren Dougher’s Leadership Experience from the Graduate Employee & Postdoc Union
- Usman Ali’s Leadership Experience from the Graduate Student Senate (GSS)
Doctoral Students at Work Blogs:
- Timothy Brown from Humanities Institute
- Eric Berg from Humanities Institute
- Ben Briskin from Center for Students with Disabilities
- Treena Goswami & Spencer Hayes from the Center for Career Readiness and Life Skills
Employer Insights
Employer Insights occurs once or twice in a semester. Employer speakers introduce their roles, corporate culture and values, hiring process, and share career tips and advice. This event provides a platform for graduate students and postdocs to connect with employers, learning how to be a competitive job applicant at companies with an interest in hiring UConn graduate students.
Employer Info Sessions
Henkel Rotation Program – Recorded April 2026 – This recorded info session from Henkel Adhesive Technologies introduced the 24-month Henkel Rotation Program (HRP). Stay informed about current and future internship/job openings from Henkel.
Port Authority of New York & New Jersey – Recorded September 2024 – Watch this recorded info session and learn about career opportunities with the Port Authority of NY & NJ. Stay informed about internship/fellowship program/job openings from the Port Authority of NY & NJ.
EURAXESS and Horizon Europe: Research and Career Opportunities in Europe – Learn more about EURAXESS here and view upcoming informational events.
Employers featured in past events include:
- Amica Mutual Insurance
- Boehringer-Ingelheim
- Flagship Pioneering
- Healthcare Consultancy Group
- Henkel
- Intel
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Pfizer Parenteral R & D Program
- Slalom Consulting
Industry Insights
The Graduate School, together with the Center for Career Readiness and Life Skills hosts Industry Insights, a series of virtual events designed to introduce graduate students and postdocs to a variety of industries. Click here to view previous Industry Insights events.
