Designing Your Own Path to Career Relevant Experience

Considering how to gain meaningful career-relevant experience during your degree? This session introduces a Design Your Own Experience (DYOE) framework for leveraging a diverse ecosystem of creative, applied, and scholarly opportunities that build real, transferable skills. Participants will learn how to use the DYOE framework to identify a problem or opportunity in their field, map their skills, connect with stakeholders, outline deliverables, and clarify learning outcomes. Practical examples of impactful, feasible experiences will be shared to spark ideas.

By the end, participants will have a clear starting point for designing applied experiences that complement their graduate studies and strengthen their job search prospects.

This event is part of our Career Workshop Series for graduate students! Stay tuned for upcoming events in this series! View our full events calendar.

Previous events in this series

• Exploring Career Options for Research-based Programs
• Exploring Career Options for Course-based Programs
• Being Intentional and Staying Motivated in the Job Search
• Academic CV
• Interviews
• Negotiating a Job Offer
• And more!

You can access our past session recordings. Please note: not all of our workshops are recorded.

Facilitator

Rebecca Dirnfeld, MA, is a Career Educator who works with the UBC Career Centre to support graduate students at UBC. She has a Career and Work Counselling Diploma from George Brown College. Her past experience includes leading the graduate student career education portfolio for graduate studies and managing the MBA careers team at Toronto Metropolitan University, and in providing career advising to business students as a team member of SFU’s Beedie Career Management Centre. Rebecca is also a part-time graduate student in UBC’s EDST MA program.