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Letters of Recommendation and Gap Years

Letters of recommendation are an important component of any graduate school application. For PhD and academic master’s programs, they provide evidence of your aptitude for research from an authority in the field. For law or medical school, they can contextualize …

By Caroline Wilky
Caroline Wilky Associate Director, Graduate School Advising
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Penn Resources for Graduate Students with Families

Last semester, a graduate student who I had advised asked as she was leaving, if I knew any information about parenting resources for graduate students on Penn campus. As I spoke to the student, it occurred to me that in …

By Esther Ra
Esther Ra Associate Director, Nursing/Education/Social Work
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Advice on being yourself – strategically – during the job search

Check out this post from the Carpe Careers blog published on the Inside Higher Ed website – written by PhD/postdoc career advisors for PhD students and postdocs:

By Joseph Barber
Joseph Barber Director, Graduate Career Initiatives
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Go With The Flow

This is from a series of posts by recipients of the 2018 Career Services Summer Funding Grant. We’ve asked funding recipients to reflect on their summer experiences and talk about the industries in which they’ve been spending their summer. You …

By Barbara Hewitt
Barbara Hewitt Executive Director
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Real Estate Technology

This is from a series of posts by recipients of the 2018 Career Services Summer Funding Grant. We’ve asked funding recipients to reflect on their summer experiences and talk about the industries in which they’ve been spending their summer.

This …

By Barbara Hewitt
Barbara Hewitt Executive Director
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Leveraging Your Talent(s) – Career Lessons from AGT

Summer comes with many pleasures—beach weather, baseball games, ice cream, and in my household…gathering as a family each week to watch America’s Got Talent. We’ve been faithfully watching the show for years, and like the judges, we never cease to be …

By Claire Klieger
Claire Klieger Assistant Vice President & Executive Director
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2019 Design Career Fair Video

Take a look at the 2019 Design Career Fair – there is lots that you can do to prepare for the 2020 event. Schedule an appointment with a Career Advisor to find out what you can be doing.

By Joseph Barber
Joseph Barber Director, Graduate Career Initiatives
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Looking for spatial analytics internships and jobs?

Here are some job and internship listing sites that you should know about in addition to the jobs posted for Penn students on Handshake (https://upenn.joinhandshake.com/postings)

geojobs.org
GeoSearch
GIS Careers
GIS User
GISCafe
GIS Lounge
The GIS Jobs Clearinghouse
InsideGNNS

By Joseph Barber
Joseph Barber Director, Graduate Career Initiatives
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Are you making professional connections within the field of spatial analytics?

Here are some of the professional associations you should consider as part of your professional development

Association of American Geographers – a nonprofit scientific and educational society founded in 1904. For more than 100 years the AAG has contributed to …

By Joseph Barber
Joseph Barber Director, Graduate Career Initiatives
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Are you making professional connections within Landscape Architecture?

Here are some of the professional associations you should consider as part of your professional development

American Society of Landscape Architects: ASLA is the national professional association representing landscape architects, promoting the profession and advancing its practice through advocacy, education, …

By Joseph Barber
Joseph Barber Director, Graduate Career Initiatives
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