The University of British Columbia

for Grad Students and Post Docs

Managing your Professional Career – The Nuts and Bolts

Audience: Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Fellows in EOAS.

Goal: Provide grad students and post docs of EOAS with the skills to actively manage their professional career and development.

Approach:

• Non-credit, one one- or two-hour session per week in winter terms 1 and 2, 2006-2007.
• Taught by volunteers as service to the department. Volunteers can be faculty, graduate students with prior work experience, career coaches, and guest speakers of government and private sector.
• Focus on practical aspects of the entire process from determining a suitable career to landing a job. The goal is to provide all the nuts and bolts and practice required to be successful in the job hunt.
• The syllabus is driven by the chronological order of the job-hunting process. In particular, the academically focused sessions are scheduled to prepare grads and postdocs for the typical academic recruitment cycle.

Current Series 2006-2007:

| Schedule 2006-2007 | Session outlines 2006-2007 |

Previous Series 2005-2006:

| Schedule 2005-2006 | Session outlines 2005-2006 |

Previous Series 2004:

| Schedule 2004 | Session outlines 2004 |