Events & Panels
Graduate Workshops
CaPS offers specialized services for graduate students and post-doctoral fellows - Career Development Workshops, Grad Career Week, Academic Week, and Government Career Week to help you explore different career options in the industry, government, NGO, business, and volunteer sectors.
If you have suggestions for future events, please feel free to send your ideas to susan [dot] molnar [at] mcgill [dot] ca (Susan Molnar).
Career Panels on DVDs
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 or Graduate Career Month to see a list of topics.
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 SKILLSETS - Calendar & Registration
Career Resources
CaPS Resource Centre contains a number of publications on the academic job market and on job search techniques. Publications available online are: International Employment Weekly, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and University Affairs. To access these publications, visit Career Periodicals & Databases
Academic Career Week, 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 2014
- 2014 Panel and Presentation Topics
- Building Your Teaching Portfolio Presentation - Teaching Portfolio Resources (PDF)
- Academic CV & Job Cover Letter Preparation Slides (Dept. of Integrated Studies in Education) (PDF)
Academic Career Series 2013
- 2013 Panel and Presentation Topics
- Academic C.V. & Job Cover Letter Preparation Slides (Dept. of Integrated Studies in Education) (PDF)
- Developing a Teaching Portfolio Slides (PDF)
- Salary Negotiations: Because You're Worth It (Desautels Faculty of Management) (PDF)
Academic Career Series 2012
- 2012 Panel and Presentation Topics
- Academic C.V. and Cover Letter Preparation Slides (Dept. of Integrated Studies in Education) (PDF)
- Developing a Teaching Portfolio Slides (PDF)
- Resources for Preparing the Teaching Portfolio (PDF)
- Hints for PhD Defenses - from the Medicine perspective (PDF)
- Networking at Conferences - A Few Thoughts (PDF)
- The Paradox of Writing in Doctoral Education: Student Experiences (PDF)
- Strategies for a Successful PhD Oral Defence
- Some Modest Advice for Graduate Students (PDF)
Academic Career Series 2011
Graduate Career Month
Grad Career Month, offered every March-May, is designed for graduate 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 Graduate Career Month to see a list of topics.
Graduate Career Series 2014
- 2014 - Panel and Presentation Topics
- Graduate Career Series 2014 - Getting What You Want: The Art of Negotiation
- Graduate Career Series 2014 - Mitacs Suite of Programs and Prospecting 101 (PDF)
- Graduate Career Series 2014 - Scientific Careers at Health Canada (PDF)
- Graduate Career Series 2014 - Leveraging LinkedIn to Win: Be-IN-Valuable! (PDF)