The Career Development Committee organizes events that are tailored to the career needs of postdocs at UCLA. We aim to provide information and training on a wide range of subjects fitting loosely into three categories:

1) Preparing for a career in academia

2) Preparing for a career outside the academic sphere

3) Personal and professional development

The committee meets every month to come up with ideas for events, and to deal with the organization of these events. All postdocs are welcome to attend these meetings or to post their suggestions for career events to the website.

Video Webcasts of Previous Career Events
Panel Discussions: From Postdoc to Faculty, Surviving as an Assistant Professor, Academic Publishing, Women in Science, Career Opportunities Liberal Art Colleges

Business and alternative Careers Paths: Intellectual Property, University Based Start-Up, Doctors without Borders.

Minutes of Career Development Committee Meetings

Fellowship and Grant Writing resources - A list of courses on grant-writing held at UCLA, as well as online resources.

Fellowships

UCLA awards - coming soon!

GRAPES database - The UCLA Graduate and Postdoctoral Extramural Support (GRAPES) Database lists many major fellowships

Grant-writing courses at UCLA
UCLA K30 training

NIH Grant Writing Course at UCLA

Online Resources
The Grant Doctor

Grants Net

International Fellowships and Grants

USA Jobs.com - The official website for employment with the United States Federal Government. The United States Federal government hires Ph.D.'s for a wide variety of positions, from scientists to intelligence analysts.

External Career Resources

UCLA Career Center - Although technically postdocs are not supposed to use the career center we have access to some of their facilities. They have a library of useful books and their website has lots of useful information.

UCLA Skillnet -UCLA Campus Human Resources Training and Development Program includes courses on research administration, management and many other topics important for career development.

OID (UCLA Office of Instructional Development) - UCLA Office of Instructional Development runs courses on a range of subjects, with a particular focus on effective teaching. Postdocs interested in learning to teach or gaining teaching experience should look at the CUTF page.

UCLA CHR Traning and Development - UCLA Campus Human Resources: Current Courses listed in monthly Newsletter.

Next Wave - One-stop shop for information on posdoc career issues.

Science Careers Forum - Interesting forum dealing with a range of issues related to careers in academia and careers not in academia.

Bruin Toastmaster - Campus group of Toastmaster International - A place for Improvement of communication and leadership skills

The Chronicle of Higher Education - Weekly paper on higher education in the US - resource of teaching career related issues and job postings.

Survival Skills and Ethics Program of the University of Pittsburgh - Large collection of science career related literature.

Michael Alley from Virginia Tech is the author of The Craft of Scientific Writing - at Virgnia Tech you also find a tutorial to improve your writing skills.

A Fun Read

Piled High and Deeper - A free online comic strip created and written by a Ph.D. When no one will understand the trials and tribulations of your work, check it out.