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UBC Career Centre
Services
| Title | Description | Theme |
|---|---|---|
| One-to-One Advising, Career |
Current UBC graduate students and recent alumni (within 1 year of graduation) can access individual advising appointments in person or as virtual appointments. Topics for these conversations include: career options/exploration, job search, networking, interviews, resume, academic CVs, etc. To book an appointment, please log in to Careers Online . |
Career |
Resources
| Title | Description | Theme |
|---|---|---|
| Online Job and Volunteer Board | Careers online is an online job and volunteer board for UBC students and alumni (scroll to bottom of page). This page also includes advice on job search strategies. | Career |
| Career Planning, Graduate | Visit the graduate student career page for tools, resources, advice, and video stories to help guide your career planning and exploration. | Career, Leadership, Working with others |
| Individual Development Plan, Sciences | My IDP is a unique, web-based career-planning tool tailored to meet the needs of PhD students and postdocs in the sciences. This website was developed by AAAS/Science, the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB), and experts from several universities (see authors on their site). Note: This website is not hosted in Canada, and your personal information may be stored or accessed outside of Canada. | Academic, Career |
| Individual Development Plan, Humanities and Social Sciences | ImaginePhD is a free online career exploration and planning tool for PhD students and postdoctoral scholars in the humanities and social sciences. The ImaginePhD project is powered by the Graduate Career Consortium (https://gradcareerconsortium.org/; GCC). Note: This website is not hosted in Canada, and your personal information may be stored or accessed outside of Canada. | Academic, Career |
| Individual Development Plan, Health | The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has developed an online Individual Development Plan (IDP) and resources. The IDP is a tool that supports graduate students and PDFs in actively preparing for the career(s) of their choice by exploring career paths, establishing career goals, and identifying skill gaps, culminating in an action plan to achieve their career goal(s). | Academic, Career |
| Resumes and Cover Letters | This site provides samples and video tutorials to help target and tailor your resumes and cover letters. See here for additional examples of grad-specific resume and cover letter templates. | Career, Leadership |
| Curricula Vitae | This site provides samples and information about curricula vitae . See here for additional examples of grad-specific CV and samples. | Career, Leadership |
| Management Consulted | All degree seeking UBC students can log in to this online tool to access resources related to consulting, including resources for preparing for case interviews, learning about what consulting is, free webinars, and finding peers to practice case interviews with. Students can log in with their CWL at https://managementconsulted.com/ubc-student-login/ Questions? Contact career.centre@ubc.ca | Career |
| Career Workshop Series | This Career Workshop Series is run annually by the Graduate Pathways to Success Program in collaboration with the UBC Career Centre to support career exploration and development for graduate students. | Career |