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First Steps to Building a Personal Brand | Career Development

Learn how students can build their individual brands to market themselves to potential employers. This video allows students to learn the first steps to building their personal brand and how to develop and maintain their reputation online and offline.  

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DiscoverPD is an innovative tool for UW–Madison graduate students to advance their academic and professional goals. Review the nine facets of professional development, complete a self-assessment, and get a customized report and recommendations.

UW–Madison students are invited to participate in the 2019 Healthy Minds Study, which will help campus better understand student mental health and related issues, including sources of support and the campus climate around mental health. By participating, you are helping campus better understand the unique mental health needs of graduate students. Findings from the study will help shape programs, services, and campus-wide strategy for student mental health. You may have received a survey link in their wisc.edu email on Tuesday, April 9. The survey is open until April 30, and 700 students who respond will be randomly selected to receive $10 on their Wiscard. For more information, visit uhs.wisc.edu/healthy-minds.

The Office of Student Financial Aid is excited to announce a new, free online financial wellness program called GradReady. By creating an account, you can learn about money management and real-world finance topics. There are also personalized budgeting tools that you can use. GradReady is available to all UW–Madison students, staff, faculty, and alumni. To get started, visit wisc.gradready.com and click on Create an Account.

We have all fallen into the relentless cycle of feeling tired at work or school due to our lack of sleep. Despite the number of times we’ve sworn we’ll go to bed earlier the next night, we still have trouble getting a full night’s sleep. If you have been feeling sleep deprived lately and want to break the sleeplessness cycle, here are several changes you can make to your bed time schedule so you can start waking up feeling refreshed and ready to conquer the day.

YOU@WISC: An online portal with information and resources for resilience and well-being. It covers stress management, self-care and social support, anger management, suicidal thoughts, mindfulness, and more.

SilverCloud: A self-guided mental health resource that provides treatment options 24 hours a day, no referral from a mental health or medical provider needed. It includes evidence-based learning modules on anxiety, depression, body image, and stress, designed to help students manage day-to-day stresses and improve resilience.