Graduate Workshops
CaPS offers specialized services for graduate students and post-doctoral fellows. The workshops are to help you explore different career options in the industry, government, NGO, business, and volunteer sectors. Workshops offered by CaPS in regular basis:
- Career Development Workshops
- Graduate Career Series
- Academic Career Series
- Government Career Series
- For a full listing of workshops, and to RSVP, please log-in into myFuture -> Events.
- If you have suggestions for future events, please feel free to send your ideas to susan.molnar [at] mcgill.ca (Susan Molnar).
SKILLSETS offers professional development workshops for graduate students. This suite of workshops is designed to complement the research training with general transitional/professional skill development opportunities recommended for training High Quality Personnel. For a list of coming workshops, visit: Calendar & Registration
Career Resources
CaPS Resource Centre contains a number of publications on the academic job market, non-academic job careers, and on job search techniques. Some online periodicals and books for graduate students are:
- Current Jobs for Graduates
- The International Educator
- University Affairs
- A PhD is not Enough! A Guide to Survival in Science
- Lean In: For Graduates
- Surviving Your Academic Job Hunt: Advice for Humanities PhDs
Academic Career Series, offered every October by faculty members, is designed for PhD students.
Past panels and events are available in DVDs at the CaPS Resource Centre. Use the Resource Catalogue and search in the Title field with keywords like Academic Career Week to see a list of topics.
Academic Career Series 2018
Academic Career Series 2017
Academic Career Series 2016
Academic Career Series 2014
- 2014 Panel and Presentation Topics
Building Your Teaching Portfolio Presentation - Teaching Portfolio Resources- Academic CV & Job Cover Letter Preparation Slides (Dept. of Integrated Studies in Education)
Academic Career Series 2013
- 2013 Panel and Presentation Topics
- Academic C.V. & Job Cover Letter Preparation Slides (Dept. of Integrated Studies in Education)
- Developing a Teaching Portfolio Slides
- Salary Negotiations: Because You're Worth It (Desautels Faculty of Management)
Academic Career Series 2012
- 2012 Panel and Presentation Topics
- Academic C.V. and Cover Letter Preparation Slides (Dept. of Integrated Studies in Education)
- Developing a Teaching Portfolio Slides
- Resources for Preparing the Teaching Portfolio
- Hints for PhD Defenses (the Medicine perspective)
- Networking at Conferences - A Few Thoughts
- The Paradox of Writing in Doctoral Education: Student Experiences
- Strategies for a Successful PhD Oral Defence
- Some Modest Advice for Graduate Students
Academic Career Series 2011
Graduate Career Series
Grad Career Month, offered every March-May, is designed for graduate students.
Graduate Career Series 2014
- 2014 - Panel and Presentation Topics
- Graduate Career Series 2014 - Mitacs Suite of Programs and Prospecting 101
- Graduate Career Series 2014 - Scientific Careers at Health Canada
- Graduate Career Series 2014 - Leveraging LinkedIn to Win: Be-IN-Valuable! | 30 Linked-Express Link-Bits) | Tip Sheet - Boolean Search Tips | LinkedIn Character Limits