Career and Professional Development
CAREER & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
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Overview
Resume and LinkedIn profile consultations: The Graduate and Professional School (TGPS) will provide individual resume and LinkedIn consultations for all graduate students. Whether you are looking to identify your professional interests, develop your personal strategic plan, enhance your resume, refine your online presence to optimize your profile for job searches, or learn how to effectively network on LinkedIn, these individual consultations will support those professional goals.
To book an appointment this semester, please click on the link below:
LinkedIn Learning courses: All SHSU graduate students, regardless of program or completion track, can access LinkedIn Learning courses specifically curated by TGPS for professional development and career readiness. You can access the curated LinkedIn Learning courses here.
Mock interviews: The Graduate and Professional School (TGPS) offers interview practice/mock interview opportunities to graduate students to help them prepare for an interview with an employer or for an academic opportunity.
The purpose of mock interviews is to give students an understanding of a typical interview setting and expectations, to prepare themselves for an interview, and to refine their interviewing skills. Students will receive individualized feedback from the interviewer at the conclusion of the mock interview.
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Mock Interview Schedule
Fall 2025
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Date/Time: Monday, November 10, 2025 – 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
Location: Virtual Zoom Session
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Date/Time: Tuesday, November 11, 2025 – 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
Location: Virtual Zoom Session
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Career Readiness Scholarship
TGPS will award $250 Career Readiness scholarship to any SHSU graduate and professional student who fulfills the following during a semester:
- Attend a resume and/or LinkedIn consultation at TGPS.
- Attend TGPS mock interview for graduate students.
- Complete at least five LinkedIn Learning courses curated for career readiness and professional development by TGPS.
* Graduate Students may receive the Career Readiness Scholarship twice during their tenure at SHSU. Students must fulfill all of the above requirements each time.
Mock Interviews
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Overview
Resume and LinkedIn profile consultations: The Graduate and Professional School (TGPS) will provide individual resume and LinkedIn consultations for all graduate students. Whether you are looking to identify your professional interests, develop your personal strategic plan, enhance your resume, refine your online presence to optimize your profile for job searches, or learn how to effectively network on LinkedIn, these individual consultations will support those professional goals.
To book an appointment this semester, please click on the link below:
LinkedIn Learning courses: All SHSU graduate students, regardless of program or completion track, can access LinkedIn Learning courses specifically curated by TGPS for professional development and career readiness. You can access the curated LinkedIn Learning courses here.
Mock interviews: The Graduate and Professional School (TGPS) offers interview practice/mock interview opportunities to graduate students to help them prepare for an interview with an employer or for an academic opportunity.
The purpose of mock interviews is to give students an understanding of a typical interview setting and expectations, to prepare themselves for an interview, and to refine their interviewing skills. Students will receive individualized feedback from the interviewer at the conclusion of the mock interview.
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Mock Interview Schedule
Fall 2025
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Date/Time: Monday, November 10, 2025 – 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
Location: Virtual Zoom Session
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Date/Time: Tuesday, November 11, 2025 – 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
Location: Virtual Zoom Session
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Teaching Assistant Certification Series (TACS)
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Overview
Your graduate program will be giving you excellent training in your discipline. If you plan to include teaching at some point in your career, it will also be helpful to take some training in pedagogy (the study of teaching methods and student learning). The basic premise of pedagogy training is that teaching should be understood like any other academic enterprise: evidence-based. Ideally, training will allow you to take a step back, evaluate your own preconceptions of teaching, and shape your approach in the classroom based on the best available empirical data on how students actually learn. Workshop topics will vary, but will generally show you how to: manage “challenging” students in the classroom and incorporate pedagogical research into the classroom, and develop a statement of teaching philosophy.
The Graduate School hosts Teaching Assistant Certification Series (TACS) for any graduate student interested in a future career involving teaching, especially those considering becoming future faculty. This program does not involve additional formal coursework or tuition.
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Requirements
The Graduate & Professional School hosts the Teaching Assistant Certification Series (TACS) for any graduate student interested in a future career involving teaching, especially those considering becoming future faculty. This program does not involve additional formal coursework or tuition.
To earn a TACS certificate, students must complete the following within one academic year:
- To earn a certificate students must first register for GUIA. When you register for GUIA, you will be added to a GUIA Blackboard organization. All communication about fulfilling TACS requirement will take place through the GUIA Blackboard organization.
This is a mandatory first step for any graduate student interested in earning TACS certificate. GUIA workshops are offered in the beginning of every fall and spring semester.
Interested graduate students must participate in at least six of the TACS-approved workshops offered during GUIA; the following 4 are mandatory FERPA, Title IX, SHSU Online, and Classroom Management.
- Contact Dr. Falguni Mukherjee (fsm002@shsu.edu) by September 12 (fall semester) or January 30 (spring semester) to start working on their statement of teaching philosophy.
- Have an Engaging Classroom Observation (ECO) of their teaching and receive formative feedback. Requests must be submitted 3 weeks in advance.
*Note that workshops are open to all students as professional development, even if not enrolled in the TACS program.
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Graduate/Undergraduate Instructor Academy (GUIA)
More information here: shsu.edu/centers/academic-success-center/GUIA/