Career Exploration

What do you want out of life, at UBC and beyond? This interactive session draws on the principles of Design Thinking to help participants begin to orient their plans and philosophy regarding their career and professional life, and for locating career within life overall. We’ll also use practical skills and exercises to develop tools for evaluating and investigating alternatives and choices.

Tue, January 28, 2020 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM See description. Splunk offers the leading platform for Operational Intelligence. It enables the curious to look closely at what others ignore—machine data—and find what others never see: insights that can help make companies more productive, profitable, competitive and secure. What can you do with Splunk? Come and find out.

Wed, January 29, 2020 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM See description. Considering entrepreneurship as a potential career direction or interested in learning more about what it means to be an entrepreneur? Join fellow UBC students for a special afternoon session hosted by UBC President & Vice-Chancellor, Santa J. Ono and Director, Centre for Student Involvement and Careers, Kim Kiloh.

What do hiring managers look for in new employees? How can graduate students and PhDs communicate their value to potential employers and land a great post-PhD job? In this webinar, two PhDs — Josh Magsam, PhD (English, University of Oregon) and Melanie Nelson PhD (biochemistry, Scripps Research) — demystify the hiring process.

Tue, February 11, 2020 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM See description. New Gold is a Canadian-focused intermediate gold mining company. The Company has a portfolio of two core producing assets in a top-rated jurisdiction: the Rainy River Mine and New Afton Mine, both located in Canada. The Company also operates the Cerro San Pedro Mine in Mexico (which transitioned to residual leaching in 2016).

User Experience (UX) Research is a growing career field where PhDs from humanities, social sciences, and STEM backgrounds have found and launched successful careers. In this webinar, Ali Colleen Neff, PhD (Senior UX Researcher, New Relic) and Timothy Price, PhD (Principal UX Researcher, WellSky) will talk about how they launched their careers in UX research.

Discovering the Entrepreneur Within has participants analyze successful entrepreneurial ventures and identify what it took for those entrepreneurs to reach their goals. Using an interactive, team-based approach, this full-day workshop builds awareness of the current Canadian entrepreneurial landscape and resources available to those looking to start their own business.

MyIDP (https://myidp.sciencecareers.org/) is a free tool designed to empower graduate students and postdocs in STEM to explore career options and leverage their training.

In this session, you will learn about how to develop collaborations with industry and community organizations through Mitacs Accelerate. This will include strategies for identifying and connecting with potential partners, examples of previously successful projects, and information about the Mitacs Accelerate application process.