Below is a compilation of career and professional development support services and resources available to graduate students at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. Please email gradstudentlife@echo.rutgers.edu if you are struggling to get connected to services or unsure of who to speak to concerning the challenges you are facing. If you are looking for information about on-campus employment opportunities, click HERE.
Office of Career Exploration and Success
The Office of Career Exploration and Success (CES) is committed to assisting students in making connections between their academic experience and career paths. they provide career-related resources to help individuals discover themselves, explore careers and academic pathways, develop skills, and pursue their post-graduate goals. CES builds relationships with external partners to optimize opportunities while creating strategic partnerships with campus departments to assist students in articulating co-curricular experiences that will make them competitive in their future pursuits.
CES is committed to assisting doctoral students in preparing for productive and meaningful careers and recognizes that this community has unique career needs. CES maintains a doctoral students career community and specific newsletter.
Here are simple steps to get familiar with all the resources, support, and job opportunities
- Set up your Handshake Account.
Rutgers Handshake is the #1 platform for all things career success. Students can utilize Handshake to access thousands of job and internship listings, schedule appointments with career advisers, read employer reviews, network with recruiters, register for events, access exclusive online resources, and much more. HERE is a video to assist you in setting up your handshake account. - Read the Graduate Career Pathways Newsletter
The weekly career community email newsletters display tailored events, alumni mentors, career outcomes, and resources related to a student's selected career communities. Students can select up to five career communities through their Rutgers Handshake career interest profile. The weekly newsletter are located on the CES website. - Meet with a career advisor
Meet with specialized career advisors for tailored support on job documents, search strategies, navigating career transitions, clarifying your career direction, and preparing for interviews or presentations. Advisors are also available for 1:1 career advising appointments. On the Advising Category screen in Handshake, select "Student Community-Specific Questions" and then "Doctoral Students: Career Advising." HERE is a video to assist you in updating your career community preferences. If you have questions please email Rudrani Gangopadhyay, Sr. Assistant Director, Graduate Student Career Pathways, rudrani.g@rutgers.edu
To learn more about CES check out their website HERE.
School & Program-Specific Career Resources
Students enrolled in the following schools and programs below have access to additional career resources provided through their academic school or program.
- Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
- Mason Gross
- School of Management and Labor Relations
- School of Communication and Information
- School of Social Work
- Master of Business and Science Program
- Graduate School of Education
- School of Graduate Studies: Career Exploration and Professional Development
School & Discipline Specific Development Resources
Rutgers Interdisciplinary Job Opportunities for Biomedical Scientists (iJOBS)
The Rutgers University iJOBS Program (interdisciplinary Job Opportunities for Biomedical Scientists) exposes life science PhD students and postdocs to a range of non-academic and academic career options and empowers them to pursue their career goals. Through this program, participants have the opportunity to build the knowledge, professional network of faculty and those in the field, and experience needed to reach their career objectives.
To learn more about the opportunities iJOBS presents, as well as events, panels, and professional network, visit their website HERE.
For any questions about iJOBS please contact Dr. Janet Alder janet.alder@rutgers.edu.
Communicating Science Courses
*For Doctoral Students*
Doctoral students in science disciplines spend countless hours learning how to conduct cutting-edge research, but comparatively, little time learning to communicate the nature and significance of their science to people outside their field. Communicating Science courses for doctoral science trainees seek to address this disparity by helping students develop an advanced ability to communicate their research clearly and accurately and to emphasize its value and significance to diverse audiences.
Learn more about Communicating Science Courses HERE.
FREE Institutional Memberships & Online Platforms
AURORA by Beyond the Professoriate
*For Doctoral Students*
Beyond the Professoriate helps doctoral students and PhDs leverage their education into meaningful careers, whether in academia or beyond. They have resources to support individuals and partner with institutions to help PhDs and grad students land jobs in Industry, Non-Profit, Higher Education Administration, Faculty, and the Private Sector. Rutgers University offers free access to Aurora to all STEM, Humanities, and Social Sciences PhD students and postdocs. To activate your Aurora by Beyond the Professoriate account, click HERE, and choose Rutgers as the subscribing institution, and create your account using your NetID.
ImaginePhD
*For Doctoral Students*
ImaginePhD is a free online career exploration and planning tool gives PhD students and postdoctoral scholars in the humanities and social sciences an easy way to assess their career-related skills, interests, and values, explore career paths, define goals, and map out next steps for career and professional development. Click HERE to register for a FREE Imagine PhD account.
LinkedIn Learning
All Rutgers graduate students have free access to LinkedIn Learning, an online professional development tool with thousands of video tutorials, courses, and training resources taught by industry experts. Click HERE to learn more about LinkedIn Learning and set up your free account through Rutgers University.
The New York Times
Rutgers University Libraries’ subscription to The New York Times allows all Rutgers affiliates to create free NYTimes.com personal accounts, which provide full access to NYTimes.com, The New York Times app, and the NYT Audio app.
NYTimes.com provides full access to all New York Times digital content, including news, multimedia, reviews, opinions, blogs, videos, podcasts and newsletters. You may use your account to email, share, and comment on content. NYTimes.com includes all articles published from 1851 to the present. Many articles published between September 18, 1851 and December 31, 2002 are viewed using the TimesMachine interface, which displays full-page newspaper images. TimesMachine articles may be viewed in the browser or downloaded as PDFs. For the years 1923-1980, patrons are limited to viewing or downloading 5 PDFs per 24-hour period. For unlimited download of historical articles from The New York Times, please use the ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Times database.
The New York Times app is available on a wide range of devices. The app primarily provides access to current content; it does not include all the historic articles found at NYTimes.com. The NYT Audio app, which is available for iOS devices only, provides daily audio journalism and storytelling, including narrated articles read by the journalists who reported them, podcasts, and more. Rutgers University Libraries’ subscription does not include access to The New York Times crossword or cooking apps, nor does it include The Athletic.
First-time users, please select “Create Account” to create an NYTimes.com personal account. After creating your account, you may use it to log into NYTimes.com and The New York Times app from any location on any device. You may also use it to log into the NYT Audio app from any iOS device.
Student accounts remain valid through December of the graduation year selected in the signup process. Faculty/staff accounts remain active for 4 years. After 4 years, please re-activate your account by re-authenticating via the link on this page. If you have trouble with your account, re-activating your account through this page often will resolve the problem.
This webpage was last updated on February 3, 2026.
