RESOURCE LIBRARY

The Graduate School and the Georgia State community offer a variety of additional resources and programs to assist graduate and post-doctoral trainees in realizing their professional goals. Resources and programs include online training, workshops, pre-recorded webinars and much more.
Core Competency Development
In this section, you will find resources to help you develop the core competencies employers expect recent graduates to demonstrate when entering the workforce.
Learning Styles & Study Skills. During this presentation, we will explore a variety of effective study strategies, learning styles and tips to succeed while balancing school and life.
Understanding and Overcoming: Performance Anxiety & Procrastination. This workshop will introduce skills that successful performers use to overcome performance anxiety & procrastination.
Increase Focus and Concentration. This workshop will introduce skills that successful performers use to increase and sustain their concentration and focus. You are going to be distracted. In this workshop, you will learn how to: recognize and eliminate potential environmental and personal distractions, create an optimal environment for studying, and re-focus when you do get distracted.Your ability to attend to the important tasks at hand and sift through the unimportant distractions can positively increase your productivity as a grad student.
Meditation for Stress Relief. Life can be stressful, and stress can have serious repercussions on your health and overall wellbeing. Press pause and join us to learn how meditation combats stress and what stress does to the body.
Balancing Graduate School and Life Obligations. Graduate school has no shortage of sources of stress; tight deadlines and multiple competing priorities. This workshop will provide tips and resources for balancing graduate school and having a life outside of your scholarship.
Goal Setting and Time Management. So much to do, and so little time...or so it seems. The labors of graduate school, and life as a whole, can seem too much with the given time in a day. Are you struggling with writing or meeting writing deadlines? Learn goal setting and time management strategies to enhance the use of your time to be more effective with your most valuable commodity: your TIME!
Writing Standout Resumes - How to impress recruiters and land your dream job. Ever wondered what consultants do? Or even what consulting is? Need some pointers to make your resume shine? If so, Deloitte has the event for you! We cordially invite you to an information session from Deloitte, along with some resume tips and tricks to get you noticed by a recruiter.
Chart Your Course: Introduction to the Individual Development Plan (IDP). Whether you’re planning a career in academia or industry, an Individual Development Plan (IDP) will help you prepare for your future. Join Dr. Nadine Kabengi, Associate Dean of the Georgia State University Graduate School, as she guides you through the steps needed to develop your IDP.
- Slides | Play recording 12pm session | Play recording 2pm session | Feedback Survey
GSU-AIR Learning Session: A Day in the Life of an AIR Researcher. Join The Graduate School, The Center for the Quantitative and Statistical Sciences at Georgia State and the American Institutes of Research for a panel discussion on what it's like to have a career with one of the world's largest behavioral and social science research and evaluation organizations. Panelists will share their experiences as researchers, discuss actionable steps needed to become a successful researcher, and highlight the need for experts in developing innovative answers to society's most pressing challenges.
On Great Terms: Job and Salary Negotiations. Understand what you should do when you receive a job offer and how to evaluate one. Learn strategies for how to negotiate your job offer to better set you up for success and when it is most appropriate to bring up salary negotiations.
Navigating Skype/Zoom Job Interviews. Virtual interviews are an important step in the evaluation and interviewing process. Learn tips that will help you prepare for an effective virtual interview (on Skype, Zoom or another platform).
Tips for Nailing Your Interview Presentation. With the job market more competitive than ever, employers are trying strategies to differentiate applicants. How do you make a lasting impression?
Building Professional Relationships. Keys to building and maintaining professional relationships.
Translating Your CV to Industry. Identify your transferable skills. Learn to communicate skills in writing and learn the value of these capacities in application materials and interviews.
- Slides | Play Recording (62 min.) | Feedback Survey
Using Social Media to Advance Your Career. Identify your goal in using social media. Understand the benefits of using social media for networking. Set up your social media profile to advance your career goals. Practice using social media to search for jobs.
Public Scholarship: Designing Presentations for Maximum Impact. Whether you’re presenting a research paper at a conference or defending your research at your thesis/dissertation defense, drawing on basic visual communication principles will improve the delivery of your next research presentation. This workshop will help you plot your escape from the PowerPoint wasteland and develop engaging presentations with functional design, good flow, and meaningful graphics.
Slides | Play recording (45 min.)
Avoiding Plagiarism. Citation-management software information and tips and tricks to avoid plagiarism.
Slides | Play recording (39 min.)
Collaboration: How to Work with Others without Losing Your Friends or Mind. Collaborative approaches once common primarily in the natural sciences are now more frequent in the humanities and social sciences. Working with others to produce scholarship or carry out a project can be a highly rewarding experience or the bane of your existence. In this workshop, we will identify features of successful collaboration, a decision-making flow, and strategies to triage problematic partnerships. Workshop created by: The National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity.
Slides | Play Recording (45 min.)
Copyright & Publishing Essentials for Dissertations. Are you working on your dissertation and including copyrighted works of others in your paper? Are you unsure about when you need permission and how to get it? Are you unclear about the pros and cons of online access to your dissertation, and how to control when it is available? This workshop will answer these common copyright questions that graduate students encounter as they write and prepare to publish their own thesis or dissertation.
Slides | Play Recording (23 min.)
Practical Tips for Publishing Scholarly Articles. Break out of the dissertation box and learn the full range of publishable articles. Develop new insights into the barriers that inhibit your ability to write for publication.Understand the politics of peer review and its implications for publishing. Manage the review process. Develop a scholarly agenda that meets your career aims. Workshop created by: The National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity.
Slides | Play Recording (73 min.)
"Your CV Should Inform. Your Cover Letter Should Persuade"
This edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education's "The Professor is In" series offers valuable advice for those writing or revising their curriculum vitae and cover letter.
"6 Tips to Shape Up Your Writing"
Got writing troubles? You are not alone. In this week’s Two-Minute Tips, Fernanda Zamudio-Suaréz offers six helpful hints to make your prose sing.
"10 Tips on How to Write Less Badly"
10 tips on scholarly nonfiction writing that might help people write less badly. The author, Michael C. Munger is chairman of political science at Duke University.
Academic Socialization for International Students: Understanding and Overcoming the Challenges of Graduate School. We’ll examine the academic socialization processes often experienced by international graduate students beginning graduate programs in the United States. We’ll focus on challenges new graduate students often experience related to culture and language as well as explore suggestions to foster a positive academic experience.
Citation Management with Zotero/Endnote & Library Resources for Graduate Students. Learn about citation management with Endnote & Zotero and the array of Library resources for graduate students.
Navigating Academia: A Workshop for First-Generation Graduate Students. Feeling overwhelmed by the “hidden curriculum” of the Academy? This workshop covers hidden expectations, specifically related to the three pillars of academia—research, teaching, and service. Through discussion, attendees will leave with a working knowledge of how to navigate academic processes and succeed as scholars.
Navigating the IRB: New Regulations Governing Human Subjects Research. Are you getting ready to prepare your first Institutional Review Board (IRB) submission? Has it been a while since you’ve submitted an IRB application? Are you new to GSU and need an introduction to our IRB procedures? If so, please join us at our “Navigating the IRB Process” session. This session is designed to provide the novice with information that will assist in creating and submitting a human subjects research application to the IRB.
Empowering Diverse Voices: Equity and Justice Through A Career in Research. Emerging data from the COVID-19 pandemic, coupled with the call for social justice, highlights the need for diversity with voice in the design and implementation of research. This presentation will introduce students to careers in research and ways that they can address issues of inequality in health, education, workforce development, and the criminal justice system.
Picture This I: Best Practices in Data Visualization. Data visualization is one of the most powerful tools for exploratory analysis, storytelling, and communicating key insights. But what makes it so effective? Students, staff, and faculty are invited to learn how visualization is used in analysis, monitoring, storytelling, and reporting, how to choose the right type of visualization, visualize ethically and respectfully, and how simple techniques and a few minutes of polish can make your data pop!
Picture This II: Easy Dash-boarding with Google Data Studio. Google’s myriad apps are intuitive, free, and easy to implement. An often-overlooked advantage, however, is their ability to interface with each other to create powerful systems for data input, transformation, and visualization in real time. In this presentation, we demonstrate how to democratize data collection across teams, organizations, and other collaborations using Google Forms and Sheets.
Communicating Your Research with the Public. Break down your research from the perspective of your audience. Explain the importance of communicating to audiences beyond the academy.
University Research Services & Administration (URSA) | Access to all required training and other instructional resources for conducting research at Georgia State.
More Info: ursa.research.gsu.edu/training/
Research Data Services @ Georgia State University Library
- The RDS Team offers support to GSU students, faculty, and staff in the areas of data analysis tools & methods, mapping & data visualization, finding data & statistics, survey design, and data management -- click here for details!
- Attend a minimum of five unique RDS workshops in a certification period, and get RDS@GSU Data Ready.
- Data After Dark night-time RDS workshops starting at 6:30pm or 7:00pm.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Fellowship Panel. CDC representatives provided information about fellowships at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, including tips for creating a competitive fellowship application.
For a list of fellowship options see https://www.cdc.gov/fellowships/ | Slides
Addressing Your Concerns About Graduate-Level Writing. In this workshop, the Georgia State Writing Studio tutors will discuss best practices and advice for writing challenges that many graduate students face. The tutors will share their advice for maintaining productive writing habits and avoiding procrastination and offer assistance with navigating some key graduate-level writing assignments and expectations.
Citation Management with Endnote & Zotero. The University Library has an array of professionals to assist you from finding and collecting existing published research to ground and guide your own research, to finding data or primary sources to analyze, to using data analysis tools to draw out your intellectual contributions -- and any other questions you have in between.
Literature Review Tips & Resources. Literature reviews can be difficult to understand and even more difficult to write. In this workshop, you will receive tips, as well as some useful tools that can help you create successful literature reviews.
Making the Most of Scholarly Feedback. Feedback is generally regarded as crucial for learning. Join us for tips and strategies on how to reflect, interact and respond to feedback one receives from instructors, advisors and reviewers.
Tips for Productive Writing. Increase your writing effectiveness and productivity on a daily, weekly and semester basis. Help manage projects by setting goals, making a plan and breaking tasks into smaller parts.
University Research Services & Administration (URSA) | Access to all required training and other instructional resources for conducting research at Georgia State.
More Info: ursa.research.gsu.edu/training/
Research Data Services @ Georgia State University Library
- The RDS Team offers support to GSU students, faculty, and staff in the areas of data analysis tools & methods, mapping & data visualization, finding data & statistics, survey design, and data management -- click here for details!
- Get RDS@GSU Data Ready - Attend a minimum of five unique RDS workshops during the certification period. Learn how to get data ready.
- Data After Dark night-time RDS workshops
NIH National Research Service Awards (NRSA) Information Session. The Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) funds predoctoral (F31) students and postdoctoral (F32) trainees conducting research in the behavioral and health sciences. Note that to be competitive for an NRSA, students should be working with an NIH-funded sponsor or principle investigator (PI). Only U.S. citizens, nationals and permanent residents can receive NRSA funding. Questions? Contact Fellowships Advisor Katrina Helz at [email protected].
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Fellowship Panel. CDC representatives provided information about fellowships at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, including tips for creating a competitive fellowship application.
For a list of fellowship options see https://www.cdc.gov/fellowships/ | Slides
Georgia State Community Resources
As a member of the Georgia State community, you have a wide range of resources available to you. In this section, you will discover resources to help you navigate graduate school and beyond.
Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning and Online Education (CETLOE) | GSU CETL Pedagogy Sessions
More Info: https://cetloe.gsu.edu/workshops-events/
University Library | Library workshops and events
More Info: rooms.library.gsu.edu/calendar/workshops
University Research Services & Administration (URSA) | Access to all required training and other instructional resources for conducting research at Georgia State.
More Info: ursa.research.gsu.edu/training/
Technology Training Workshops | PantherTech training team offers a wide variety of free introductory technology workshops to all Georgia State students, staff, and faculty.
More Info: technology.gsu.edu/technology-services/it-services/training-and-learning-resources/technology-training-workshops/
Contact Us
We are here to help. Contact The Graduate School Admissions office for information on the enrollment process. Program-specific inquiries should be directed to your college, school or institute of interest.