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 early 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.
If you have any questions about the workforce interest groups please feel free to contact the co-chairs at rcd-workforce-chairs@carcc.org.
Monthly Calls
Monthly 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.
Call Recordings
Recordings of many of the calls can be found on the CaRCC YouTube Channel and links for individual calls can be found in the Previous Calls section below
- Staff Workforce Development Interest Group Playlist
- Student Workforce Development Interest Group Playlist
Upcoming Call(s)
- October 8th 2024 – Student Focus: Gladys Andino, Observations and lessons learned, first year of a student program
- Nov 12th 2024 – Follow up on Sept topic, “Developing a RCD Workforce Resource Catalog”.
- Dec 2024 – CaRCC End of Year Event. Possible breakout room for Staff & Student Workforce Dev IG Plans for 2025.
Interest Group Co-Chairs
To reach the co-chair with questions or if you would like to join, please email rcd-workforce-chairs@carcc.org.
- Tom Cheatham – University of Utah (student-focused)
- Brian Haymore – University of Utah (student-focused)
- Betsy Hillery – Purdue University (student-focused)
- Timothy Middelkoop – Internet2 (staff-focused)
- Michael Weiner – Georgia Institute of Technology (staff-focused)
Papers
- Timothy Middelkoop, Claire Mizumoto, Scotty Strachan, Balamurugan Desinghu, Scott Delinger, Jacob Fosso Tande, Deb McCaffrey, Ann Myatt James, David P. Reddy, and Patrick Schmitz. 2023. Career Phases in Research Computing and Data. In Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC ’23), July 23–27, 2023, Portland, OR, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 6 pages, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1145/3569951.3597562
- Gladys Andino, Scott L. Delinger, Jacob Fosso Tande, Timothy Middelkoop, Claire Mizumoto, David P. Reddy, and Michael D. Weiner. Onboarding Research Computing and Data Professionals. in Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC ’24), July 21–25, 2024, Providence, RI, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1145/3626203.3670582 (prepint)
- Gladys Andino, Scott L. Delinger, Jacob Fosso Tande, Timothy Middelkoop, Claire Mizumoto, David P. Reddy, and Michael D. Weiner. An Onboarding Checklist for Research Computing and Data Professionals, Zenodo, 2024. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11074226
Previous Calls
| 1/14/2025 | How do you train your student employees? | doc video |
| 10/8/2024 | Establishing a Research Computing Student Worker Program at UVA: Progress, Challenges, and Future Directions. | video doc |
| 9/10/2024 | Developing a RCD Workforce Resource Catalog | slides doc video |
| 8/13/2024 | Identifying learning pathways to guide the career development of technical professionals in research environments | slides doc video |
| 07/09/2024 | Workforce Development: Maximizing Your Conference Experience | doc post |
| 05/15/2024 | How do you increase the hiring pool for students and staff for Research Computing and Data positions? | doc |
| 04/09/2024 | Staff RCD Training Plans | doc slides video |
| 03/12/2024 | Discussion on Student Program Models: Funding, Hiring, and Onboarding Processes Part 2 | doc |
| 02/13/2024 | Discussion on Student Program Models: Funding, Hiring, and Onboarding Processes | doc slides video |
| 01/09/2024 | Combined staff/student – PEARC24 writing topics | doc slides |
| 12/13/2023 | Onboarding: First Days, First Weeks, First Months | doc slides |
| 10/10/2023 | Impact of Student RCD Workforce Development | video doc slides |
| 09/12/2023 | Joint Staff and Student Call: Working session on onboarding resources | doc slides |
| 08/08/2023 | Combination Staff and Student Call : open discussion/recap of the RCD Nexus Day workshop and PEARC Conference | doc |
| 07/11/2023 | Joint Staff and Student Call: RCD Mentoring Working Group Kickoff Call | doc slides |
| 05/09/2023 | Staff Focused Call – Overlay the RCD HR Framework on the RCD Career phases | doc slides |
| 04/11/2023 | Student Focused Call | video doc slides |
| 03/14/2023 | Staff Focused Call – Phases of an RCD Career: what are they and how do we define them? | video doc slides |
| 02/14/2023 | Student Focused Call | video doc slides |
| 01/23/2023 | Staff Focused Call | video doc slides |
| 12/13/2023 | Student Focused Call | video doc slides |