Getting the Most Out of Your Academic Experience: Designing Your Grad School/Career Strategy

Date & Time

Tuesday, December 3, 2024
11:00 am to 1:00 pm

Location

Online

Offered by

Graduate Pathways to Success and UBC Career Centre

Registration Opens

Monday, 25 November 2024 - 9:00am
 
 

Graduate students today have a plethora of academic and professional obligations as well as opportunities they may engage in during their graduate journey. There are also many ways to define success both within and after graduate school.

  • How do you choose which opportunities to take advantage of?
  • Are you setting yourself up to succeed in your intended career path after graduate school?
  • Do you even know that path?

Join this interactive workshop to take the lead of your education and hone your career intentions! The session will help you to:

  • develop or enhance your academic plan for completing your graduate degree,
  • explore possibilities and design your career path,
  • build a road map for navigating the many opportunities available, and
  • establish strategies for attaining your professional objectives.

Facilitators

Jacqui Brinkman, MSc, is the Director of Graduate Student Professional Development at Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies. Through this role, she works to improve the graduate student experience. Previously, she has managed postdoctoral and undergraduate programs in the Faculty of Medicine and was a lab-based researcher both within academia and industry. She completed her MSc in Biology at McGill University.

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.

Registration Information

Priority will be given to UBC graduate students registered in the current academic session. After registering, you will receive confirmation and additional event details within 2 - 3 business days at the e-mail associated with your community.grad.ubc.ca account. If you experience any difficulty using the online registration tool, please e-mail us at graduate.pathways@ubc.ca. Please email us if you are registered and no longer able to attend this event.

Accessibility

If you have a disability or medical condition that may affect your full participation in the event, please email graduate.pathways@ubc.ca, 604-827-4578, well in advance of the event.