Career Advice
University of Alberta’s alumni office launches a career advice podcast, What the Job?
Finding a job after graduating from university can be a stressful time for students. The void of the “real word” laying before them, their anxieties can go into overdrive: how do you apply what you learned at university to an actual job? Where does the job search even begin? And, once you’re i...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/career-advice-article/helping-students-start-their-job-search-theres-a-podcast-for-that/
Career Advice
By fostering positive relationships, professors can help improve the mental health of their students.
With Canada locked down due to the coronavirus pandemic, it’s not uncommon for our students to lose educational ground during this time. Things have changed drastically, with a loss of community, residence, summer practicums or co-op placements, jobs, and convocations.
Academic institutions are...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/career-advice-article/how-professors-can-help-university-students-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/
Career Advice
How to foster a positive relationship in a remote environment.
networking. What skills do your students need to know and develop?
2. Virtual time and real time management: Even though some days it may feel as though we are still living in March 2020, time is passing! Standing plans, be they a coffee break discussion...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/career-advice-article/10-tips-for-effective-remote-graduate-student-supervision/
Career Advice
Early career instructors should feel encouraged to extend and innovate in the virtual classroom.
Many doctoral students interested in academia pursue various teaching assignments during their degree: from teaching assistantships to lecturer and course instructor postings. While many prepare for their first teaching assignment by leveraging professional development opportunities, few of these tr...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/career-advice-article/building-an-effective-classroom-community-online/
From PhD to Life
networking, and doing new things, he’ll be making progress in his career. It may not be apparent to anyone else, but he’ll know.
If you find yourself stuck, don't give up. There is lots more to learn, both about yourself and what's out there. PhDs can find work that's fulfilling and fun (at l...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/from-phd-to-life/stalled-career-search-dont-give/
From PhD to Life
While individual initiative is vital, a larger cultural shift is needed.
networking. To be sure, universities are already engaging on many of these fronts; the challenge is to build both awareness and a culture that encourages all students, rather than just the motivated few, to take advantage of these opportunities.
Addressing the academia-first mentality head-on is ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/from-phd-to-life/addressing-the-academia-first-mentality-in-phd-programs/
From PhD to Life
All of the advice stems from the common thread that institutions, now more than ever, must do something to train students for a variety of career fields.
This past academic year at Beyond the Professoriate, Jen and I set out to learn more about what institutions in the United States and Canada were doing to help graduate students prepare for their careers. Our Continue reading ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/from-phd-to-life/four-different-ways-institutes-can-start-preparing-the-next-generation-of-phds-for-career-success/
Careers Café
In October, I wrote about the stress of applying for the renewal of my NSERC Discovery grant and assured all of our regular readers that I would report back to you once the results of the competition were in. I said that the tri-councils remind me of
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/careers-cafe/tri-council-funding-results-the-return-of-fluffy/
Careers Café
The imminent beginning of a new academic year seems like a good time to broach this difficult topic. Before you make another tuition payment, it's a good idea to make a conscious decision about whether doing a PhD is still the right path for you.
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/careers-cafe/its-okay-to-quit/
How do you feel?
This is a serious questio...
Careers Café
Back in January, I proposed a series of questions you might ask in the spirit of the New Year. The beginning of a new academic year see...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/careers-cafe/happy-new-year-redux/
The Scholarly Edition
In the academic world, the process for choosing a publisher for your first manuscript is clear: seek out the presses with the best reputation in your field and find a good fit. As strange as it sounds to those outside the Ivory Tower, your primary goal is neither to sell a lot of copies, nor to make...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/the-scholarly-edition/choosing-publisher-edited-collection/
Sponsored Content
CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar uses “multimessenger” astronomy for new insights, while pushing for more diversified and inclusive viewpoints.
Astronomy is a complex subject, but Daryl Haggard has the rare talent of bringing it down to earth. Her descriptions of neutron star collisions and merging black holes are as clear as they are colourful, inviting her audience to learn more about what’s happening in the farthest reaches of outer sp...
https://universityaffairs.ca/magazine/sponsored-content/astrophysicist-takes-a-fresh-look-at-the-universe/
Responsibilities May Include
Mentorship can enhance your degree, but every program offers different takeaways.
Mentorship programs, when executed well, can be catalysts for success in academia. Whether it’s a tenured professor coaching a new faculty member, a postdoc supporting an undergraduate student with a research initiative, or a community member mentoring a mentee, these relationships have the potent...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/responsibilities-may-include/moving-away-from-a-one-size-fits-all-mentorship/
Responsibilities May Include
Students will feel more in control if they are exposed to career exploration early and within their academic discipline.
networking technique, students learn that most working professionals can be giving with their time. It promotes professional development by helping them develop tacit skills, and to imagine themselves in particular roles.
By teaching students how to explore careers in their discipline, universiti...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/responsibilities-may-include/career-exploration-needs-to-start-before-students-graduate/
Responsibilities May Include
Sharing resources between career services and faculty/departments promotes successful career transitions for grad students.
networking to resumes, and most practitioners are very happy to tailor these workshops to the needs of a given group. Workshops can also be co-delivered when appropriate to create a more targeted experience for students; one example is a general career-focused workshop, with a depar...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/responsibilities-may-include/pulling-together-a-collaborative-model-for-student-centred-career-support/
Responsibilities May Include
A faculty member collaborated with campus career services to deliver an experiential learning option to PhD students with diverse backgrounds.
networking, exploring their professional prospects and researching the job market. Through these discussions, the experiential learning option of the program came to be.
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/responsibilities-may-include/incorporating-experiential-learning-in-a-phd-program/
How the experiential learning project works
Every January, Ms. Dupley speaks with the new students in the program about...
Responsibilities May Include
Community and mentorship are critical for supporting the success of graduate students with disabilities.
The number of students with disabilities registering with campus accessibility offices for accommodations Continue reading at universities across Canada. As higher education institutions cast a wider net in their recruitment ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/responsibilities-may-include/navigating-the-hidden-curriculum-as-a-graduate-student-with-disabilities/
Responsibilities May Include
Three graduates share their PhD journeys and their forays into the biotechnology and therapeutics sector.
With the increasing pace of scientific and technological advances, a life sciences expertise is in high demand. Government inves...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/responsibilities-may-include/yes-a-phd-in-life-sciences-can-lead-to-a-career-outside-of-academe/
Graduate Matters
You will need people, both inside and outside of the academy, to help you be successful and keep you grounded.
At some point, graduate school will be tough. And when the going gets tough, the wise lean on each other. This message may or may not be widely shared within academic institutions. There is, after all, a long tradition of seeing scholarly work as a solitary endeavor. Autonomy and self-direction are ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/graduate-matters/finding-community-graduate-school/
Graduate Matters
Whether you are certain you want to pursue non-academic employment, or are perhaps on the fence, there are great benefits to thinking about your academic CV as a record of all you do.
In a recent Continue reading, I reflected on different ways to think about the academic CV, your record of achievement, contribution, and productivity within the context of your academic “course of lif...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/graduate-matters/building-an-academic-cv-that-does-more-for-you/
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