We’re so pleased to bring you a special Q & A with Tanya Tran, who is a licensee and Advisory Board Chair for TEDxQueensU. Tanya is also a current PhD student in Clinical Psychology at Queen’s University. Lets hear more…
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Q&A with Tanya Tran of TEDxQueensU
Posted in Guest Posts Tagged with: networking, organization, professional development, TEDx, TEDxQueensU
Help Beyond Grad School: Finding Your Mentor
How to find a mentor may vary depending on your field, but across the board it is a universally necessarily asset in order to get connected to people in your field and for getting a head start on your job…
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with: career, information interviews, Mentorship, networking, professional development
On Writing Productivity – Writing Among Others
After years of going through the research stage of my PhD program, watching my cohorts graduate one by one, (feels like) I am alone. It has become difficult for me to stay motivated and focus on making progress in my…
Posted in Productivity, Professional Development, Publications, Skill Development, Staying Well, Thesis Tagged with: Dissertation Boot Camp, Elbow lake, networking, productivity, professional development, publish, reflection, thesis
Rubbing elbows in the Rockies
We have talked a lot about networking over the years at Gradifying and to continue this week, I had a really interesting networking opportunity this past summer that I wanted to share. It didn’t involve Academia or anything work-related, and…
Posted in Conferences, General, Jobs and Careers, New Students, Professional Development Tagged with: networking, outreach
Heigh Ho, Heigh Ho, it’s off to work we go!
Whether you are close to departing the academic womb or not, thinking about your future job is important at any stage. One of the questions from Chengcheng’s post that got me thinking was “What does your dream job look like? How…
Posted in Jobs and Careers Tagged with: being awesome, degree progress, goal setting, networking, professional development, SGPS, SGS
Career Week: Turning Learning into Earning
When: October 11th (Tuesday) to October 14th (Friday) * Learn about all workshops here. The term is picking up speed, and I’m pretty sure most of us will be at warp-speed here in a couple of weeks. In the…
Posted in Events, General, Jobs and Careers, Kingston, New Students, Professional Development, Skill Development Tagged with: career development, Career Services, Career Week, networking, workshops
Networking in (un)expected places
During my time with Gradifying, we have touched on the subject of networking on many occasions, and offered lots of perspectives including: conference networking, networking with grad alumni and so many more. A couple of weeks ago, Dustin highlighted networking…
Posted in General, New Students, Professional Development, Student Perspective Tagged with: making connections, networking, twitter
NetWork Smart, Not Hard
“Jump in on the conversation.” “Have an opening ready.” “Develop your elevator speech.” “GET OUT THERE!!” I think these are good tips. Graduate students are one leap away from being in the career they decided to invest heavy doses of…
Posted in Conferences, General, Jobs and Careers, New Students, Professional Development Tagged with: career development, networking, professional devlepment
Career Week for the Digital Age
Career Week: October 19-23, 2015 – register here You probably keep hearing about Career Week – maybe you’ve heard your colleagues talking about it, or maybe you’ve seen posters about it on campus. You’ve definitely received emails alerting you to…
Posted in Events, Jobs and Careers, New Students, Professional Development Tagged with: branding, Career Services, Career Week, LinkedIn, networking, SGS, Sidneyeve Matrix
Getting the most out of Twitter #idontgettwitter
Twitter is one of the most widely used social media platforms today #sopopular. And yet, so many people still don’t understand what Twitter is really for or how it works #idontgettwitter. One of the main reasons there is so much…
Posted in All, General, Jobs and Careers, Student Perspective, Uncategorized Tagged with: networking, social media, social media help, twitter