Career Resources

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Beyond Graduate School

Beyond Graduate School helps master’s students leverage their education and training; discover their values and articulate their skills; learn job search strategies through structured curriculum; and secure employment in their field of interest. Our platform is the only professional development training platform designed specifically for master’s students.

Beyond Graduate School website
Beyond the Professoriate

Beyond the Professoriate

Beyond the Professoriate is a division of the Center for Graduate Career Success (gradcareersuccess.com).

We are the only online professional development training platform for graduate students, postdocs, faculty, and PhDs that helps them successfully transition into academic or nonacademic careers. This award-winning platform is informed by nearly a decade of experience supporting PhDs to launch new careers with their skills and training.

Trusted by over 50 institutions (and growing), we help grad students and PhDs leverage their education into meaningful careers, whether in academia or beyond the professoriate.

We 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.

Beyond the Professoriate website

Big Interview

Big Interview is an online system that combines training AND practice to help improve your interview technique and build your confidence.

You have at your disposal a variety of tools including:

  • Challenging, virtual mock interviews for all experience levels and dozens of industries
  • A database of thousands of interview questions with tips on how to answer them
  • The ability to rate and share your interview answers for feedback
  • A comprehensive video training curriculum covering all aspects of landing a job
  • A step-by-step interview Answer Builder for crafting answers to behavioral questions
Big Interview website

CareerWell

The Graduate School’s CareerWell Professional Development program provides a full range of training opportunities and resources to graduate students. Through our programming, we prepare students for career success as innovative future leaders. It is our mission to ensure students have the skills they need to succeed professionally as well as academically.

CareerWell website
case questions - build your case with cred

Case Questions

Consulting firms, strategic planning departments, and marketing departments ask case interview questions. They do this to get a handle on how you think, get a feel for how you communicate, how you articulate your thoughts under pressure and how you verbalize problems, concepts and numbers, and to see how you listen. CaseQuestions.com in partnership with the Kenan-Flagler Business School makes this resource available to all UNC students to assist with that preparation.

Case Questions website

Ed2NC

A collaborative effort between the NC Office of State Human Resources (OSHR) and the NC Office of Strategic Partnerships (OSP), Ed2NC is committed to helping match qualified talent with competitive jobs at state government agencies.

The mission of the Higher Education to NC Government (Ed2NC) Careers is to bring together leaders in state government and higher education to help create a pipeline of talent by connecting students and recent graduates with careers in state government.

Ed2NC website

Focus2

FOCUS 2 (video tutorial) and nccareers.org offer assessments to help you evaluate your options and make informed decisions regarding major and career selection. Both are self-paced, online career and education planning tools. Their self-assessments help you identify your:

  • Top work interests
  • Values
  • Skills
  • Personality type

Additionally, they allow you to explore potential careers and majors guided by your assessment results. You can research careers by name, industry, compare occupations side by side, and explore careers based on UNC majors or minors.

Focus2 website
forage

Forage

Forage is an online platform that provides free, open-access virtual experience programs. UNC students can engage in Forage’s simulations to experience work at top companies like JPMorgan Chase, Lyft, EA and BCG. These self-paced, immersive opportunities equip students with real-world skills, help provide a career advantage and connect students with Fortune 500 companies. You can access the full course catalog here. Develop your skills and gain a real understanding of different roles and sectors by working through these self-paced modules, with tasks similar to those you would undertake during a traditional internship.

Forage website

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Career Resources

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