Events

MEL Information session

8:00am - 9:30am

UBC APSC's Master of Engineering Leadership is hosting an infosession regarding their interdisciplinary (engineers, architects and technical professionals) career-oriented degree.

Job Search Strategies: Telling Your Story

10:00am - 11:00am

Designing an impactful career narrative in alignment with career goals, tailoring one’s story to resonate with specific audiences, and storytelling techniques to enhance resumes, cover letters, networking conversations, and interview responses.

Foundations of Pedagogy

One-term course Feb 3 - Mar 31, grad students / postdocs invited. Evidence-based teaching to effectively teach a lesson in an undergrad classroom, with emphasis on alignment of learning objectives, activities and assessment. Apply by Jan 13.

Career Planning using Designing Your Life Principles

10:00am - 11:30am

Reframe career challenges as opportunities for growth and discovery, prototype multiple career pathways to uncover possibilities that align with interests, skills, and values, and apply design-thinking principles to navigate career decisions.

The Gentle Density Leaders Summit

A summit of speakers on the topic of gentle density housing in BC and beyond. Early-bird pricing in effect until December 20, 2024.

Resumes for students in research-based programs

11:00am - 12:00pm

Key differences between resumes and academic CVs, strategies for conveying research experience in a resume format, and oOrganization, formatting, and common challenges.

Resumes for Students in course-based programs

12:00pm - 1:00pm

This session will cover highlighting program and project experience i.n your resume, organizing a resume for career changes and pivots, and organization, formatting, and common challenges.

Academic CV

12:00pm - 1:00pm

Typical sections, what makes the CV different from a business-style resume, and how to understand the ways in which the hiring committee will use the CV.

Cover letters

11:00am - 12:00pm

This session will cover formatting, structure and common challenges, how to describe your motivation and connection to the role, and how to describe accomplishments and experiences.

Interviews

12:00pm - 1:00pm

This workshop will cover the following aspects of the interview process: what employers care about, types of Interviews, types of questions you can expect and strategies for answering them, and tips and strategies for virtual interviews.

Negotiation

11:00am - 12:00pm

This workshop will cover: benefits of negotiating your job offer, things you can negotiate, and tips and strategies for job negotiation.

Leveraging your strengths in your career search

10:00am - 11:30pm

learn more about your particular top strengths, how they interact with each other, how they shape your perspective, what opportunities you have to describe them, and how they can be leveraged for success in grad school and beyond.