THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
Career Development
Our in-house Career Services team serves only MA students in the Social Sciences Division at UChicago (MAPSS, CIR, and MACSS). Our services are therefore highly specialized.
MA students pursue an extraordinary range of careers, and our mission is to help students and alumni achieve their short-term and long-term professional goals across that range of paths. Our office supports students from day one with customized career advising and programming tailored to your personal goals.
We are experienced career advisors, and we work one-on-one with MAPSS students and alumni year round to provide personalized guidance on job searches. This includes helping you improve materials such as resumes, CVs, cover letters, and communications.
Throughout the academic year, we offer a wide array of programs, workshops, and events to support MAPSS students in building their careers, including networking opportunities with alumni, lectures, workshops, and discussions with career guidance experts on campus.
Examples of our program offerings include:
- Bi-Weekly Digests and Jobs Addendums
- Monthly Workshops (Career Preparation and Professional Development)
- Alumni Career Mentor Series (seminars featuring diverse career trajectories of MAPSS alumni)
- Employer Information Sessions
- Exclusive access to our career management tools, like MA Connect, CareerShift, and the SSD MA Career Services Website
- Our Annual MA Career Conference
Our Career Services team offers a custom career management tool called MA Connect, which is powered by College Central Network (CCN). This online tool is available to our students and alumni 24/7. MA Connect allows you to:
- Apply for jobs and internship opportunities posted exclusively for our MA students and alumni
- Search other opportunities via Jobs Central®, Intern Central®, and national job boards
- Create and upload your resume and career portfolio (when required) so they are accessible to employers
- Access our advising schedule, events calendar, career/job search advice documents, register for upcoming events, and more
MA Connect also allows employers to search for talented students and alumni.
If you have questions about our career support, please contact Shelly Robinson, Senior Director of Career Services and Professional Development (slrobins@uchicago.edu).
CareerShift
CareerShift allows Students and Alumni to easily search, store and organize their job and internship searches. This service provides the ability to:
- Search, select and store job listings from all job boards and all company job postings
- Get up-to-date contact information, including e-mail addresses, for millions of companies
- Access in-depth information about contacts and companies posting jobs
- Record, save and store your correspondence history records automatically
- Create personal marketing campaigns, including unlimited resumes and cover letters, and save them to access, print or e-mail
- Manage your confidential CareerShift account securely from any computer 24/7, to update and maintain your organized and recorded job searches
UChicagoGRAD
In addition to our in-house Career Services office, MAPSS students have access to UChicagoGRAD, a one-stop shop of integrated services to help graduate students across the University navigate their academic and professional careers. This includes programs focused on recruitment, skills and experience, career development, and alumni engagement.
UChicagoGRAD offers the GRAD Gargoyle, an online portal for Career Development, powered by Symplicity. GRAD Gargoyle allows students to:
- Schedule advising appointments for help with career planning, fellowship applications, writing skills, and more
- Search for jobs, internships, and student employment opportunities
- Register for GRAD-sponsored events
Please contact Nathan Hardy or Brian Campbell, career advisors for graduate students in the Social Sciences Division, with questions about UChicagoGRAD’s resources.