Online Resources

How to Access: To access the tool, please click this link and navigate to “Login through your institution” at the top of the page and select Emory University. Learn more about Beyond the Professoriate

What you will find: The Laney Graduate School is pleased to offer LGS graduate students access to Beyond the Professoriate’s professional development training platform. The platform offers recorded workshops in preparing for a range of career paths, panels and interviews with PhDs working in a variety of positions, and an interactive workbook to help guide you through the career exploration and application process.

How to Access: To access the tool, please click this link and navigate to “Login through your institution” at the top of the page and select Emory University. Learn more about Beyond Graduate School

What you will find: The Laney Graduate School is pleased to offer LGS master’s students access to Beyond Graduate School’s professional development training platform. The platform offers recorded workshops in preparing for a range of career paths, panels and interviews with graduate degree holders working in a variety of positions, and an interactive workbook to help guide you through the career exploration and application process.

How to Access: Visit here and use your Emory NetID and password to log in. Complete your profile setup to personalize your experience.

What you will find: Big Interview is an online platform that combines comprehensive interview training with practical exercises to enhance your interview techniques and boost your confidence. Through this platform, students can engage in mock interviews and receive instant feedback.

For more information, refer to Big Interview’s Curriculum, Practice Tool, or Student Guide.

How to Access: Emory’s full CIRTL membership is on pause for the 2025-2026 academic year, but LGS students may participate in workshops and courses as CIRTL alumni if space is available.

How to register for CIRTL workshops as alumni:

• Go to https://cirtl.net/ and select a workshop.
• On the registration form, when asked “What is Your Institution?” – select “Other”
• When asked “Are you a CIRTL Network alumni?” – check Yes, then select Emory University from the drop-down menu.

What you will find: The Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL) uses graduate education as the leverage point to develop future faculty committed to implementing and advancing evidence-based teaching practices to enrich undergraduate education that is accessible to all learners. CIRTL offers online courses, workshops and discussion boards that leverage expertise from a network of higher education institutions.

How to Access

Visit https://connects.emory.edu/ and create a profile using your Emory email address. You may also log-in using your personal LinkedIn profile.

What you will find

EmoryConnects is a professional networking platform like LinkedIn created specifically for the Emory community. This tool is a great way to start building a professional network. EmoryConnects users can connect with Emory alumni by searching degree, location, industry, company, and availability. Users can offer and receive career guidance, find nearby professionals in fields of interest, and join exclusive industry-based networking groups.

How to Access

Visit Grant Forward’s homepage and log in using your Emory SSO. You may only access Grant Forward from on-campus or via a VPN connection.

What you will find

Grant Forward is an extensive database for identifying funding opportunities. It contains opportunities from over 9,000 sponsors and is constantly updated with new funders and new opportunities. Grant Forward’s team of specialists verifies every opportunity to ensure the database’s timeliness and accuracy.

How to Access: All active Laney graduate students have access to Handshake. Visit emory.joinhandshake.com and select the STUDENT LOGIN button. Use your Emory NetID and password to log in. Note: if you are unable to log in using the “Emory Students” tab, please do not create a new account—email your name and student ID number to cpd@emory.edu.

What you will find:Handshake is Emory’s system to search for jobs and internships and register for employer-hosted informational and recruiting events. Over 40% of Handshake’s job and internship listings are for graduate students. 

How to Access: You may access this platform here.

What you will find: From designing experiments to effective science communication to professional development, this platform offers a bevy of free, self-paced, online courses to help you plan your career and build critical research skills. Course topics include building a research community, developing a clear research plan, delivering an effective talk, effective public engagement, and business concepts for life scientists.

How to Access:

ImaginePhD is a free resource. To access the tool, visit https://www.imaginephd.com, and create an account.

What you will find:

ImaginePhD is a career exploration and planning tool for humanists and social scientists. You will find assessments to help you think critically about your interests, skills, and values, resources to explore diverse career paths, and a planning tool to help you set and stick to professional development goals

InterSECT (Interactive Simulation Exercises for Career Transitions) is an online platform that enables graduate students to explore future career options. InterSECT's goal is to provide true-to-life job simulation exercises that help individuals consider the following questions:

• What are my professional interests and skills?
• How do my interests and skills translate to potential careers?
• What are my career options?
• Which careers haven’t I considered?

InterSECT engages with an individual’s interests and extrapolates these interests to positions in actual professional settings in industry, academia, and government sectors. While the simulations do not evaluate an individual’s performance on the task, they offer insight into the specific, real-life duties of varying career paths. By completing job simulations you can consider which careers are of interest to you and utilize provided resources to explore future courses of action by following up with professionals in the career field.

After completing a job simulation exercise, you will be able to determine if you would like to further pursue the career field before committing energy and time to an internship or additional training. The simulations are not meant to replace an internship or externship experience or a formal course, but to give you an idea of what kind of experience you want to invest in next.

How to Access: Emory no longer maintains its own subscription to LinkedIn Learning, but you may find information on accessing this platform and others through this library guide.

What you will find: LinkedIn Learning is an online training library with thousands of videos on professional development topics such as data, technology, leadership, design, and communication.

How to Access:

MyIDP is a free resource that is accessible through ScienceCareers. To access the tool, visit https://myidp.sciencecareers.org and create an account.

What you will find:

MyIDP is a career exploration and planning tool for scientists. The tool features self-assessments of your interests, skills, and values, career exploration resources to help you think about the diverse careers available to individuals with advanced degrees in the STEM fields, and a career planning tool.

How to Access: Visit the NCFDD homepage and sign up using your Emory email address.

What you will find: NCFDD is an independent professional development, training, and mentoring community for faculty members, postdocs, and graduate students committed to supporting academics in making successful transitions throughout their careers. This community provides live and recorded webinars, articles, and discussion boards on topics including time management, cultivating a mentor network, and engaging in healthy conflict.

How to Access

Emory University offers a limited number of subscriptions to Nature Masterclass. Interested LGS students should reach out to jkupsco@emory.edu.

What you will find:

The Nature Masterclass Scientific Writing and Publishing online course consists of 11 hours of learning with 10-minute lessons. You will find trainings on developing writing skills, preparing manuscripts for academic journals, understanding the editorial process (including what editors look for), and submitting and revising manuscripts for publication.

How to Access: Go to https://www.vmock.com/cpdemory/login

• Click on the red “Continue with University ID” button, and log in using your SSO credentials.
• Complete your profile by answering the questions provided.
• Each student has up to 10 resume uploads each academic year.

What you will find: VMock is a 24/7 online resume review tool that provides instant, AI-powered, personalized feedback on your resume. This tool is most useful for students preparing resumes for non-faculty roles.

• VMock is a starting point for creating a strong resume. It should not be your only source of resume feedback.
• Focus on the feedback comments, not the subjective score.
• Each LGS student has up to 10 resume uploads each academic year.