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.
Schedule your consultation today
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 opportunity 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 refine their interviewing skills. Students get individualized feedback from the interviewer at the conclusion of mock interview.
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 atleast five LinkedIn Learning courses curated for career readiness and professional development by TGPS.
- Mock Interview Schedule
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.
Schedule your consultation today
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 opportunity 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 refine their interviewing skills. Students get individualized feedback from the interviewer at the conclusion of mock interview.
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 atleast five LinkedIn Learning courses curated for career readiness and professional development by TGPS.
- Mock Interview Schedule
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 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.
To earn the certificate, students must complete the following within one academic year:
- Participate in at least 6 of the TACS-approved workshops; the following 4 are mandatory FERPA, Title IX, SHSU Online, and Classroom Management,
- Submit a copy of their statement of teaching philosophy by TBD, they will then receive feedback on it and must submit a revised copy electronically to thegraduateschool@shsu.edu
- Have an observation of their teaching and receive formative feedback. To schedule please contact thegraduateschool@shsu.edu
*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/