Career Planning using Designing Your Life Principles

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Date & Time

Thursday, February 20, 2025
10:00 am to 11:30 am

Location

Thea Koerners House

Offered by

Graduate Pathways to Success and UBC Career Centre

Registration Opens

Monday, 10 February 2025 - 9:00am
 
 

Inspired by the Designing Your Life framework, this workshop empowers participants to approach career planning as a creative, iterative process. Through engaging activities and practical tools, attendees will explore how to reframe career challenges as opportunities for growth and discovery, prototype multiple career pathways to uncover possibilities that align with their interests, skills, and values, and apply design-thinking principles, such as curiosity, experimentation, and reflection, to navigate career decisions with confidence.

Please note this event will not be recorded so attend live if you can. Handout maybe available to share after the session.

Career Workshop Series. Participants will benefit from attending multiple workshops in the series, but they can choose to attend only those that best fit their interests and availability.

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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.

Registration Information

General registration is open on Monday, February 10th at 9 am.

Registration is open to current UBC graduate students. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email 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 are 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.