Resources

MIT Postdoctoral Association lists MIT wide postodctoral related activities and resources.

Career Services for current MIT postdocs

The MIT global Education & Career Development office offers many services including one-on-one counseling for resume reviews, mock interviews, and more.

The Writing & Communication Center allows postdocs to schedule appointments for free professional advice about all types of writing and speaking/oral presentations. Betsy Fox, PhD, also leads a weekly Postdoc Writers Group.

Notes from career development presentations given at MIT can be found here. More career related resources are here.

The professional Development Video Portal  contains career related videos from the Office of the Dean of Graduate Education.

Sonal Jhaveri is available to edit documents including research and teaching statements.

Versatile PhD is a robust resource on non-academic careers for grad students and postdocs, designed to help identify and prepare for careers beyond academia.

Postdoc mentoring

Postdoctoral Mentoring and Advising Toolkit contains information and forms that are designed to assist the training of postdoctoral researchers at MIT, and should be helpful to postdocs as well as to mentors/advisors.

Useful links for new postdocs

A list of several useful links for new postdocs has been compiled by the MIT postdoc association. MIT has a postdoc welcome page, and has compiled a pdf with links with more useful information for new postdocs.

MIT Recreational Sports

Information for for Postdoctoral Fellows to reduced gym membership rates can be found here.

Postdoc minium pay scale

MIT follows the NIH pay scale guidelines. Please check here to make sure your pay meets the MIT minimum. If it does not, please contact us to get a pay increase!