Resources

Interstride is an interactive career platform that enhances the career exploration and job search process for international students. With web and mobile applications, it’s a one-stop-shop for career resources, from navigating the visa process and searching for jobs, to building one’s professional network. Sign in using your stanford.edu or alumni.stanford.edu email.

This two-page reference from the Center for Teaching and Learning features concrete advice to help you ace your next job or scholarship interview. Designed for all levels, it is divided into three sections: Before, during and after the Interview.  Here you'll find tips you'd expect (like always practice and first impressions matter) and some you may not (such as preparing for the questions that scare you the most, and the STAR principle for relaying anecdotes).

Curious about integrating more interactive learning strategies in the courses you teach? The Office of the Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning supports a campus-wide subscription to Poll Everywhere, a web-based tool with Canvas and presentation integration that supports interactive instruction and real-time student engagement in the classroom. Learn all about how to use it in your own teaching through the CTL's website. 

The CTL's iPads for Teaching and Learning Program explores the potential for iPads to impact teaching and learning. Each quarter, the program supports a select number of faculty and instructors with free iPads and software to support innovative means of teaching and learning with technology. If you are an instructor who is interested in exploring teaching, learning, and research on learning with iPads, apply soon!

Career Education, Stanford's career center, routinely compiles an in-depth list of job and internship opportunities for students of all stages in their graduate careers. Check out their current list of opportunities to learn what's out there and to potentially find the right job for you! If you have not yet registered through Handshake, you will be prompted to do so.

The Lane Medical Library's instructional program consists of useful, skills-based workshops and classes open to all Stanford graduate students and postdocs. Here you'll find tools to locate funding sources, help you stay on top of the biomedical literature, and effectively manage references and bibliographies. Highlights include a workshop on search techniques and desktop utilities for Google search. Especially useful for researchers in biomedical specialties.

The workspaces in The Hub at Lathrop are drop-in facilities for all Stanford affiliates, featuring production equipment and software. Multiple MacBook Pro towers come fully loaded with a variety of software packages for image, audio, and video authoring and editing. There are also additional displays for connecting personal laptops, allowing you to work on multiple screens in a different work environment. Use this resource for all of your production needs!

Many Stanford courses welcome graduate students from a variety of departments and programs. This list of current courses from Explore Courses appears to align with the Leadership & Management competency of the Grad Grow framework and to be of interest to grad students broadly. Explore the list to find courses of interest to you and be sure to note any restrictions or pre-requisites.

The Mentors in Teaching (MinT) program supports the work of TA Mentors, who provide peer support to other TAs and act as general resources in their departments. Those interested in becoming a Teaching Mentor or a MinT Fellow should contact their departments and check the Center in Teaching and Learning website for application instructions and training dates. 

R, a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics, has become the most widely used tool for reproducible research, enabling open access reproducible science. To learn more about R, and to join a rapidly growing community of R users at Stanford, check out this website from Stanford Libraries. Explore all of the R-related resources at Stanford, including workshops, consulting, online help guides, available data, project management help, and drop-in hours for support in using R at the Social Sciences Resource Center in Green Library. 

LTS supports the shared infrastructure of learning technologies and spaces to help facilitate exceptional teaching and learning. We design, implement, provision, operate, and support an ecosystem of platforms, tools, and services as well as technology-rich classrooms and learning spaces. Our aim is to provide great experiences for faculty and students in the use of instructional technology and classrooms to create engaging and accessible learning experiences for our students.

We offer a variety of digital tools and technologies which we encourage you to utilize to enhance your teaching and learning in classrooms. In addition, we have platforms which will allow you to effectively leverage structured evaluation and feedback. Find out how our tools and platforms can help you create engaging and accessible learning for your students.

If you have a legal problem or need legal advice, visit the ASSU Legal Counseling Office. The office provides free legal advice and consultations to Stanford students, as well as their spouses and domestic partners. This service, provided by qualified attorneys, is available on campus and is completely confidential. The office handles a wide variety of legal issues including landlord/tenant problems, ID theft, wills, contracts, divorce, small claims, accidents and more. 

With lists of digital, print, and media resources arranged by topic and selected by subject librarians, Stanford University Library's topic guides can help you focus your research and uncover new material. Guides are accompanied by research tips, links to subject specialists, and ideas for other collections and resources that might be of interest to you. 

Sometimes graduate students find themselves struggling due to the less structured nature of pursuing an advanced degree. One of the best skills a graduate student can develop is learning to deal with uncertainty and ambiguity. Useful for all students, this d.school guide to navigating ambiguity is a unique way to explore your personal relationship and feelings to ambiguity, and hopefully help you become more comfortable with navigating uncertainty in both the personal and project realms.

Throughout the year, the Stanford libraries hold numerous workshops designed to teach the Stanford community a wide variety of skills. From R and Arduino programming to GitHub and patent research skills, these workshops cover numerous tools that are of value to graduate students across a number of disciplines. Take a look at their current offerings and come back throughout the year to see what else you can learn!

If you are interested in learning a new skill, including web design, web development, or graphic design, check out the thousands of online resources available through LinkedIn Learning. LinkedIn Learning is an online training library with over 13,000 courses spanning topics in areas such as business, web design, video design/development/editing, software and programming, and 3D + Animation. Work at your own pace to gain new skills that will help you at Stanford and beyond! Free to Stanford students.

LinkedIn can be a powerful tool to network, learn about career paths, and showcase your expertise and skill to potential future employers. However, finding success with your job search through LinkedIn requires careful creation of a profile that will capture the attention of recruiters. Read this short article to learn strategies to maximize your profile and ensure that it stands out from the crowd. 

If you find yourself with an overflowing inbox, and wish to prune your mailing list subscription, Stanford offers the Mailman tool. This page allows you to view all the lists you are a member of, subscribe or unsubscribe to mailing lists, and create new lists. Useful for all students, especially those creating new student groups.

This book is a resource for postdoctoral and early-career faculty on crucial aspects of directing and managing a research lab. An initiative of the Burroughs Wellcome Fund and HHMI, Making the Right Moves covers diverse topics such as applying for faculty jobs, laboratory leadership, staffing, getting funded, time management, and setting up collaborations. This book is also an excellent reference for advanced doctoral students interested in improving their research management skills, for both academic and non-academic settings.

Used by the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs Scientific Management Series, the entire PDF book as well as individual chapters can be downloaded for free on the HHMI website. A Chinese translation is also available.

Management Consulted is the world’s leading resource on consulting news and prep. Through Stanford Career Education you have access to the entire library of resources, online video courses, e-books, practice cases, and more. If you are interested in consulting as a career and want to prep for your interviews, this is an invaluable resource.