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: Upcoming Events
TRaCE McGill tracks and reports on the career pathways of PhD graduates. TRaCE helps connect PhD graduates with other grads and current PhD students. The Pathways for PhDs is a speaker series that brings McGill PhD graduates back to share what they have learned as they made their way to their current positions. For a list of upcoming events, visit: Upcoming Events
Career Resources
If you are looking for publications on the academic job market, non-academic job careers, and on job search techniques:
Academic Career Series is designed for PhD students. They are offered every October by faculty members,.
Academic Career Series
Building Your Teaching Portfolio - Developing a Teaching Portfolio (PDF)- Building Your Teaching Portfolio Presentation - Teaching Portfolio Resources
- Academic CV & 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 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
Panel and Presentation Topics
Individual career panels and workshops designed for graduate students. They are offered throughout the year.
Graduate Career Series
- Career Resources – Knowledge Translation
- Academic Job Search 101 - Career Resources
- World Bank Group - Student Recruitment Session
- Mitacs Suite of Programs and Prospecting 101
- Scientific Careers at Health Canada
- Leveraging LinkedIn to Win: Be-IN-Valuable!
- 30 Linked-Express Link-Bits
- Tip Sheet - Boolean Search Tips
- LinkedIn Character Limits
Panel and Presentation Topics
- 2021 - Industry Insider: A Look at Careers (Jan - Feb)
- 2020 - Industry Insider: A Look at Careers (Nov - Dec)
- 2020 - Industry Insider (Aug-Sep)
- 2019 - Grad Hive for International Graduate Students - 2019
- 2018 - Cegep Panel
- 2018 - Knowledge Broker Panel
- 2018 - Social Service Panel
- GCS Panel and Presentation Topics - 2014
- GCS Panel and Presentation Topics - 2013
- GCS Panel and Presentation Topics - 2012
- GCS Panel and Presentation Topics - 2011
- GCS Panel and Presentation Topics - 2010