Pre-Post-Doc, Minimizing your Exit Wounds, and Finding the Cure for a Bad Case of Adjunctivitis October is a long month, as you may agree, and so I’m popping in again this week before Dustin closes us off on the 27th…
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Pre-Post-Doc, Minimizing your Exit Wounds, and Finding the Cure for a Bad Case of Adjunctivitis
Tagged with: adjunctivitis, alt-ac, Career Week, Dr. Rachel Spronken-Smith, exit strategy, post-doc
Posted in Events, Jobs and Careers, New Students
Posted in Events, Jobs and Careers, New Students
The Conclusion of Career Week – The Employable YOU
This afternoon I had the pleasure of sitting in on the well attended, last session of Career Week called The Employable YOU – Identifying your Program Specific Skills. In this post I am going to provide a brief overview of…
Tagged with: Career Week, employable you, non-academic job search
Posted in All, Events, Jobs and Careers, Student Perspective, Uncategorized
Posted in All, Events, Jobs and Careers, Student Perspective, Uncategorized
Reporting Live from Career Week (well… on Friday Oct. 17th)
Ladies and gentlemen, grad students of all disciplines, Career Week is upon us at Queen’s. As both Amanda and Sharday alluded to, October can a hectic time for grad students; one in which we often find ourselves planning ‘the next…
Tagged with: Career Week, non-academic job search
Posted in All, Events, General, Jobs and Careers, Student Perspective
Posted in All, Events, General, Jobs and Careers, Student Perspective
October: a month of (career planning) opportunities
October is always a busy month for Grad Students here at Queen’s. Midterm season is approaching which means lots of e-mails from students, busy office hours and of course, exam and/or assignment marking. Grant season is gearing up so…
Career Planning & Grant Season
Pretty soon after orientation, we grad students have to start thinking much longer term–September and October are grant season for many of us and tomorrow (Sept. 30) is Queen’s Career Fair, which comes just ahead of Career Week (Oct. 14-17th).…
Tagged with: Career Fair, Career Services, grant season, tri-council awards
Posted in Finances, Jobs and Careers
Posted in Finances, Jobs and Careers
What’s Networking Got to Do with It
(If you caught that musical reference right away, score yourself a point. If you have any hints for your fellow readers that won’t give it away, right it down in the comments at the bottom.) But seriously. For our readers…
MyGradSkills.ca – The Non-Academic Work Search
This month at Gradifying we have been discussing professional development and some resources that are available at Queen’s to help you develop, professionally. As Sharday discussed in her most recent post, the launch of MyGradSkills.ca took place last week and…
Tagged with: MyGradSkills.ca, non-academic job search, professional development, SGS
Posted in All, General, Jobs and Careers, Student Perspective
Posted in All, General, Jobs and Careers, Student Perspective
GPS launch: Get your professional development skills at MyGradSkills.ca
Today is the day that a new online tool becomes available to grad students in Ontario. It’s a set of free self-paced professional development “courses” collected under the banner of MyGradSkills.ca. Queen’s, in fact, has been instrumental in developing some…
Tagged with: alt-ac, GPS, MyGradSkills.ca, professional development, SGS, soft skills
Posted in Jobs and Careers
Posted in Jobs and Careers
Expand your horizons
First of all, I just wanted to say welcome to all of the new graduate students and welcome back to those returning to Kingston. Of course also a happy ‘ first official week of school’ (not that school stopped for…
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Today’s Welcome and Resource Fair
I missed the pancakes, but I didn’t walk away empty handed. The Bartlett Gym (Physical Education Centre [PEC]) was packed this morning as I joined the standing-room-only crowd for a presentation by key Queen’s figures including Ann Tierney (Associate Vice-Principal…
Tagged with: Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Learning Strategies, orientation, QUIC, SGPS, SGS, soft skills, Writing Centre
Posted in Events, New Students, Orientation
Posted in Events, New Students, Orientation