Early & Mid Career Mentoring Workshop

CRA-WP Virtual Career Mentoring Workshop Series

This six-week webinar series is designed to help early-career researchers, PhD students and graduates, junior faculty, and professionals navigate key career challenges.

Dates: October 11 – November 22
Time: Every Friday at 2:00 pm ET / 11:00 am PT
Where: Via Zoom

Overview

The CRA-WP Virtual Career Mentoring Workshop Series is a six-week program designed to support early-career researchers, PhD students and graduates, junior faculty, and professionals in computing. Through this series, participants will engage with accomplished experts from academia, industry, and government labs who will share their experiences and strategies for navigating career transitions, work-life balance, teaching, collaboration, and more.

Each session will provide actionable insights and practical tools that can be immediately applied to your professional journey. Whether you’re transitioning between roles, seeking to improve your teaching, or exploring industrial collaborations, this series offers valuable mentorship and guidance to help you succeed.

We especially encourage women and those from other populations underrepresented in computing research to attend.

This is an NSF funded program. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Number (1840724). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

Eligibility

The Virtual Career Mentoring Workshop Series has been opened to the public, the information will be most relevant to those identified under are early career and mid career eligibility criteria. You may still benefit if you are a PhD student who is about to graduate.

Early Career Criteria:

A postdoctoral associate.
Early Career is defined as: ~ 1-4 years in field
In early career as a researcher in academia.
In early career as a researcher in an industry or government lab.
In early career as a faculty member in academia.
Affiliated with an institution in North America, including United States territories.
Affiliated with an institution, industry, or government lab in North America, including United States territories.

Mid Career Criteria:

Mid-career is defined as: ~ 5 plus years since graduate school
Mid-career as a faculty member (i.e. Associate professor) with equivalent experience (i.e. 5 plus years since graduate school).
Mid-career as a researcher in an industry or government lab with equivalent experience (i.e. 5 plus years since graduate school).
Interested in preparing themself for advancement to a senior level position.
Affiliated with an institution in North America, including United States territories.
Affiliated with an institution, industry, or government lab in North America, including United States territories.

Persons from populations underrepresented in computing including women, Black/African American, Native American/Alaskan Native/ Pacific Islander, Hispanic/Latinx, LGBTQAI+, Persons with Disabilities, and Veterans are encouraged to apply.

If you have any questions regarding eligibility, please contact cmw@cra.org

If there are extenuating circumstances for applying beyond the timeframe listed in the eligibility requirements, please make sure you address this in the application. Extenuating Circumstances beyond an applicant’s control include, but are not limited to: