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Career Advice
Parce qu’écrire une thèse n’est pas toujours de tout repos, voici quelques astuces à garder en tête.
C’est un secret de polichinelle : écrire un mémoire de maîtrise ou une thèse de doctorat n’est pas de tout repos. Le syndrome de la page blanche et la procrastination sont l’apanage de nombreux étudiants aux études supérieures. Qu’à cela ne tienne, la directrice du programme de docto...
https://www.affairesuniversitaires.ca/conseils-carriere/conseils-carriere-article/7-conseils-pour-une-redaction-de-these-efficace/
Career Advice
How an online career symposium created connections for graduate students, postdocs and staff.
With over 3,000 registrations for 16 sessions, “I am not alone,” may be the most surprising sentiment that describes the feelings of thousands of attendees at the inaugural Canadian Career Symposium for Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Fellows this past November. As 2020 was largely marked by ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/career-advice-article/key-takeaways-from-the-inaugural-canadian-career-symposium-for-graduate-students-and-postdoctoral-fellows/
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No matter the position you are applying for, your resume needs to summarize your work experiences in a clear, well-organized way.
A good resume is like a movie trailer. It gives you some sneak peaks, points to highs and lows, the main actors, the plot and most importantly, it leaves you wanting more. A good resume lets you organize, or reorganize, the pieces of your professional past in such a way that you can tell the reader ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/career-advice-article/crafting-your-career-story/
Career Advice
Pour contrer l’isolement des étudiantes aux cycles supérieurs, des doctorantes fondent le Réseau international des femmes doctorantes et docteures.
« Au cœur de la pandémie, je préparais mon examen de synthèse. Il n’existait plus aucun espace pour poser des questions, et partager ses états d’âme », raconte Lydie Belporo, candidate au doctorat en criminologie à l’Université de Montréal. L’idée de mettre sur pied le Réseau in...
https://www.affairesuniversitaires.ca/conseils-carriere/conseils-carriere-article/un-reseau-par-et-pour-les-femmes-doctorantes/
Career Advice
Un guide utile pour les personnes réfléchissant à se lancer dans un doctorat.
Écoutant du jazz et plongé dans les post-PhD blues, j’écris quelques lignes sur mon parcours doctoral récemment achevé. Mon intention est de fournir un guide pour « la trousse du doctorant ou de la doctorante », le tout concrétisé par des exemples tirés de mon expérience pers...
https://www.affairesuniversitaires.ca/conseils-carriere/conseils-carriere-article/esquisses-doctorales-recit-dun-voyage-au-troisieme-cycle/
From PhD to Life
Earlier this month I attended the American Historical Association conference in Atlanta. Although I earned my PhD in history, this was my first time at the annual event. I didn’t go to present a paper or otherwise talk about my research, and I didn’t go to interview for an academic job. I went t...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/from-phd-to-life/phd-life-coming-event-near/
From PhD to Life
Adam Bishop earned his PhD in Medieval Studies from the University of Toronto in 2011. He's currently a translator, proofreader, editor, and researcher. Find him on Twitter Continue reading.
What did you h...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/from-phd-to-life/transition-q-adam-bishop-translator/
Responsibilities May Include
We gain far more by capitalizing on our strengths than by focusing on our weaknesses.
Partway through my PhD, I was in a workshop when the facilitator stopped us and requested: "Turn to the person next to you, and spend the next two minutes telling them about something you're good at.” This exercise is etched into my brain. Not because I remember what I or my partner shared, but be...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/responsibilities-may-include/6-ways-to-find-your-silver-linings-in-grad-school/
Graduate Matters
You already possess a number of highly-developed skills that will serve you well.
If you’ve been honing your career for a number of years, you might feel like you’ve been out of “school mode” for some time. But this doesn’t mean you aren’t as prepared to succeed in graduate school.
Four years ago, this had been a concern for Deirdre*, who joked about needing tips t...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/graduate-matters/worried-youve-been-out-of-school-too-long-to-succeed-in-graduate-school/
Prof ou pas?
Une fois acquises, de saines habitudes de rédaction porteront fruit bien au-delà de la thèse.
Puisque j’ai toujours aimé écrire, je n’ai jamais eu de difficultés à réaliser mes travaux écrits. Me lancer dans un doctorat ne me semblait donc pas un exercice plus périlleux que les autres.
Malgré tout, je suis tombée dans bien des pièges qui ont mis à l’épreuve mon autonomie...
https://www.affairesuniversitaires.ca/conseils-carriere/prof-ou-pas/quelques-pieges-a-eviter-en-periode-de-redaction/
Career Advice
Academic editing can provide kinship and learning, not just judgment followed by celebration or tears.
Do you remember your very first academic publication?
I was in the third year of my PhD. I’d earned an A+ on a term paper I really liked, and the prof had scrawled, simply, “publish this” alongside the grade.
So I did what I thought I was supposed to do: I sent it to the top journal in m...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/career-advice-article/editorship-as-mentoring-collaboration-and-peer-support/