Exploring and Solidifying Your Unique Next Steps: Self-Assessment and Career Exploration
Get to Know the Mignone Center for Career Success (MCS)
- Browse Harvard Griffin GSAS student and alumni resources.
- For new master’s degree students, attend your program’s orientation session featuring MCS where you’ll hear from your graduate career advisors and members of the employer engagement team.
- For new master’s and PhD candidates, visit MCS at the Harvard Griffin GSAS Orientation Resource Fair and join our fall session Kickstart Your Career Development during How to Harvard sessions.
- Schedule an advising appointment via Crimson Careers. We offer both 15 and 30 minute appointments weekly.
- Keep up with MCS and read your weekly MCS newsletter: “The Week Ahead at MCS for Harvard Griffin GSAS” released every Sunday at 5pm.
Start Exploring
- Meet with a GSAS advisor to learn about your self-assessment options as a graduate student:
- MCS/GSAS Self-Assessment Tool – watch this video: Assessing Your Skills, Interests and Values, complete the exercises, then schedule an appointment to brainstorm career options, within and beyond academia.
- Skills Discovery – an online self-assessment tool that complements the MCS/GSAS Self-Assessment Tool
- Imagine PhD (relevant to master’s students, too)
- MyIDP – Science Careers
- Attend annual programs like How Harvard Can Help You Land a Job, Unlocking the Hidden Job Market, and Leveraging Your PhD: Why Employers Value Your Skills. Details on our Events calendar.
- Check out career-related graduate student organizations
- Explore Job Market Insights
- View Harvard Griffin GSAS alumni spotlights
Test Out Career Options
- Learn how to build professional connections through our Harvard Griffin GSAS networking guide
- Watch this 20-Minute Tips video: Networking Beyond Academia
- Conduct an informational interview with Harvard Griffin GSAS and other Harvard alumni in various fields.
- Watch recorded informational interviews in the Career Exploration Video libraries through Beyond Graduate School (for master’s students) and Beyond the Professoriate (for PhD students)
- Attend relevant workshops on career exploration, self-assessment, and various career chats and alumni panels as you explore.
- Meet with a Harvard Griffin GSAS advisor to discuss the possibility of an internship or short-term project.
- Try virtual experiential learning through platforms like Intersect Job Simulations and The Forage
