All employees are provided equal access to development and training classes sponsored by the Employee Development and Training Unit of the Office of Human Resources. The Office of Human Resources Employee Development and Training Unit offers the following workshops and programs to all employees, including women and minorities, to assist them in improving and upgrading skills. Extensive outreach is done for most of these programs in order to ensure that underutilized women and minorities have access to these programs. The workshop also helps people develop career plans within the context of the Berkeley campus, learn about the Berkeley campus as an organization, and get an overview of some Berkeley campus occupations and job trends. By working on critical campus projects, interns gain new work experiences designed to build skills that help them reach their career goals and increase their competitiveness for transfer or promotion.
Internships can be in any occupation and last from six to twelve months.
Interns are mentored by senior University staff members who provide training and professional development support. The Program is in its tenth year and approximately 120 interns have participated to date. The Leadership Development Program is an 18-month program designed to help employees develop and strengthen the core competencies that will support them in carrying out and expanding their leadership roles and responsibilities, and promote career mobility. SDL is taught through a combination of lecture, case study discussion, participant role-play, and presentations from campus subject matter experts. SDL is the foundation course in a new supervisory curriculum being developed for the campus.