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These panels are jointly hosted by UBC’s Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies and Career Centre and Simon Fraser University’s Graduate Studies and Office of the Vice-President, Research and International.
1 – 2:30 PM: Pathway to Landing an Academic PositionYou began your graduate school journey with the fixed intention of becoming a faculty member (professor, lecturer, etc.). What are the key steps to get there? Learn from a panel of faculty members as they share their tips and experience with landing an academic position. Topics will include:
Putting things off to the last minute? Having a hard time starting a project? Or is it hard to finish and actually put a close to something you are working on? This workshop is here to help you procrastinate less and get more done. Contrary to what most people think, procrastination is not fundamentally a time management problem, which is why just trying to manage your schedule better is limited in effectiveness in changing this pattern of behaviour.
In this workshop you will learn:
Quick – tell us the top five things you are good at! Can you do it? Or would it be easier to tell us the things you’re not good at? The truth is many of us spend more time focused on (and trying to fix) what we’re not good at, instead of discovering, appreciating, and cultivating our strengths.
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.