Staff and Student Workforce Development

The Staff and Student Workforce Development Interest Groups were formed in 2022 as part of the RCD Nexus project. During the Nexus Day event held July 10, 2022 in conjunction with the PEARC22 conference, there was an all-day workshop to address student and staff workforce development concerns. A summary of this workshop can be found here. It was quickly recognized that there was great overlap between the two groups and therefore they were combined to form a single interest group. 

The focus of these interest groups is to:

• Support current research computing and data (RCD) professionals
• Provide information for people looking to become an RCD professional
• Provide information to institutions looking to establish RCD workforce development programs

These groups will curate information from existing, successful programs in order to develop leading practices for:

• Staff onboarding, training, and development
• Student program development

In a recent interest group meeting, participant input resulted in the following word cloud.

Join Us!

Everyone is welcome to join the calls and the mailing lists. Navigate to one or both of the links below depending on your interest(s)and click “Ask to Join”. Please include your name, institution, group/division/etc., and job title in the “Reason for Joining” box.

• Staff Workforce Development
• Student Workforce Development

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Monthly Calls

We are happy to announce the official launch of the CaRCC Staff and Student Workforce Development Interest Group calls! Calls will take place the second Tuesday of each month at 11am PT, 12pm MT, 1pm CT, 2pm ET and will generally alternate between staff and student topics. May call (5/14): How do you increase the hiring pool for students and staff for Research Computing and Data positions? This month, we’ll hear from individuals in institutional diversity programs and institutional HR representatives on their guidance and strategies for diversifying hiring pools. Bring your successful approaches, things that haven’t worked, and the challenges you face in attracting a good pool of candidates for your open positions. The goal of this session is to identify strategies and practical actions that RCD program personnel can take back to their institutions to help to attract good candidates for open positions.

Upcoming Calls

• Tuesday, May 14th, 2pm ET / 11am PT
• Tuesday, June 11th, 2pm ET / 11am PT