Graduate school is an exciting journey filled with opportunities to deepen your expertise, build your professional network, and launch or advance your career. As a master’s student, you’re uniquely positioned to take advantage of both academic resources and real-world connections to shape your professional future. Whether you’re exploring career options, seeking internships, or preparing for your next big role, career development during graduate school is about more than just finding a job—it’s about building the skills, confidence, and vision needed to thrive in your chosen field. This page features articles, resources, alumni, job market statistics, and events to assist you with career development during your Master’s program.
By Jim Stroud
You will send hundreds of applications this year. Some rejections will arrive before you close the browser tab.
The email is warm. It thanks you for your interest. It praises the caliber of the applicant pool. It …
Shellie Schmals is an award-winning Buffalo-based creative producer and publicist, founder of VonSchmals Productions, current Board Member of Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center, and former Graduate Assistant in the University at Buffalo Office of Student Life.
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Cultivating professional value and expertise intended to remain resilient in a world where technologies rapidly develop in extremely specific (niche) areas day by day, and remaining prepared for the future, seems like a contradictorily framed question: developing grounded career skills …

