Professional Advising and Consultation
Professional Advising Services: Medical and life science graduate/medical students, post docs and alumni** may make use of our 1 hour appointments with a career advisor. Speaking with an advisor in a confidential setting about your personal career concerns can help you clarify your priorities, define your goals, prepare your credentials (CV, resume, cover letter), help you organize your individualized career development and transition plan, and much more.
**Attention Alumni: At this time, and for the foreseeable future we find it necessary to limit alumni access to advisors to a maximum of a combination of a total of 3 (three) 1/2 hour in person appointments and/or phone calls. After that, you are welcome to come by for a 15 minute walk-in appointment if any remain after active trainees have signed-up. We fully appreciate how valuable our advisors are, and we are pleased that we can provide you limited access to them.
Scheduling a career counseling appointment:
By popular demand, we are using SciMed Careers to make scheduling a counseling appointment with a career advisor easier and more efficient for you. SciMed Careers is also your exclusive online job and internship database for bioscience PhDs, postdocs, MDs, and registered alumni. It's your one-stop hub for job and internship postings, creating career counseling appointments, program announcements, and more! Click here to register your account and get directions on how to schedule an appointment and search jobs.
We do realize that this is a new process, so if you have any questions or concerns, please email us at: somcareers@stanford.edu and we would be happy to assist you.
CV/Resume Express Review: Medical and life science graduate/medical students, post docs and alumni may make use of our 15 minute drop in cv/resume review appointments in the School of Medicine Career Center on the dates/times listed below. Signups begin half an hour before express reviews begin.
Express Review Hours: Wednesday 3:00PM-4:00PM and Thursday 11:00am-12:00pm
Assessment Tools & Career Development Materials
Administration and Interpretation of Career and Personal Interests, Skills, & Values:
The SoMCC offers several assessments to help trainees identify information about themselves which may be useful in career exploration and decision making.
If you are interested to take an assessment(s), please schedule an appointment via SciMed Careers or attend 1 initial 15 minute express review appointment (Wednesday from 3:00-4:00pm. Sign-ups for express reviews begin 30 minutes prior at the SoMCC). Assessment directions will be distributed during the intake appointment.
