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networking
Misuses of confidence:
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/careers-cafe/confidence-is-overrated/
- Feeling so certain of your skills that you don’t bother to provide adequate evidence of them to employers
- Unwillingness to determine whether you have skill or knowledge gaps that could be fixed
- Seeking networking o...
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networking at conferences has resulted in more than one seminal and persistent research collaboration, and in joint publications. It has helped me maintain collegial relationships with experts around the globe, meet and invite expert guest speakers to present to colleagues back home, and learn about...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/careers-cafe/getting-the-most-out-of-conferences/
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networking is useful. The more you dread networking, the more you may wish to use it as practice, so that you become more adept at talking about your skills with strangers. Networking may even result in the best kind of interview — the kind where the employer has decided in advance that...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/careers-cafe/job-interviews-for-people-who-dont-enjoy-them/
Responsabilités potentielles
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...
Global Campus
An integrated approach using campus and community partnerships is key to cultivating skills, building networks and exploring pathways.
networking, and mentorship, to aid with their integration into the workforce.
https://www.affairesuniversitaires.ca/career-advice/global-campus/supporting-international-graduate-students-career-development/
Career education
Career education is a key component of graduate student support. These types of programs provide students with 1:1 guidance on their career goals and other academic applications. Career educatio...
Articles de fond
Tips and advice on choosing the right teaching with technology conference this year – and how to get the most out of it
networking and podcasts.
This didn’t all come together at once. It was a step-by-step process, and some of his stepping stones, Dr. Sheese notes, were university-based and national conferences. “They’re very good at stimulating the imagination about what’s possible.”
Many faculty mem...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/i-want-to-do-more-with-teaching-technology-in-my-classroom/
Articles de fond
More scholars are choosing the online route for at least some of their conference commitments.
networking, albeit using chat rooms, Continue reading, threaded discussions, e-mail, teleconferencing, or Voice over Internet Protocol programs such as Skype instead of face-to-face conversations in hallways, restaurants and restrooms.
Because web conferences rely on ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/going-to-the-conference/
Articles de fond
Tips for setting up your online conference.
networking functions found in a site such as Facebook.
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/online-conferencing-resources/
Ning: A social-networking site room similar to Facebook but where attendance can be restricted, for example only to those registered for the online conference.
Confe...
Articles de fond
MFA programs in creative writing are nurturing Canada’s next generation of authors.
networking trip to New York, “It took me five years to find the people you’re being introduced to over seven days.” One could lock oneself in a Paris garret or hang out in the Brooklyn slam poetry scene to hone skills and make connections, but a degree is faster and, rents being as they are, p...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/mastering-the-fine-art-of-writing/
Articles de fond
networking and learning opportunities. Of course, you should already be following Continue reading and our bloggers from Continue reading, Speculative...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/academic-twitter-accounts-you-should-be-following/
Actualités
Music professor founded Bent River Records to offer hands-on experience to students.
networking hubs – a role that universities can leverage into active, teaching-based record labels.
“The networking is really important,” Mr. Johnston says. “If I was a student coming out of high school and I saw that a really cool band was associated with a university and that [its] recor...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/macewan-university-launches-record-label/
Actualités
At the 30th anniversary conference of the Senior Women Academic Administrators of Canada, a panel of presidents share their winding career journeys.
networking opportunity to bring women together … to talk through problems and get advice,” says Angela Hildyard, secretary general of the Continue reading, or SWAAC. A former vice-president of the University of Toronto, she joined ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/four-women-leaders-higher-ed-discuss-paths-presidency/
Revue de presse
networking-are-cancelled/">What can new grads do when career events and networking are cancelled?
There’s no question that the current graduating class is facing an unprecedented job market.
The Toronto Star
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/media-scan/headlines-for-april-1-2020/
À mon avis
It was easier to draw the line between “internal” and “external” examiners before the 1980s, when collaboration between faculties at different universities was less common.
networking and globalization are encouraged; geographically distant universities and departments are often linked. A professor from another university may be more familiar with the thesis candidate, not to mention with her supervisor, than most professors from her own department, who would be cons...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/how-external-is-your-external-examiner/
À mon avis
They face different challenges than mature or international students.
networking and informal learning opportunities on campus if she has to rush home to pick up the kids from daycare or carry out the host of jobs associated with parenting? How does the immigrant student stop feeling guilty for not “being there” for their family, especially when the family has alr...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/immigrant-student-parents-are-a-group-apart/
À mon avis
Grad students should set our own goals.
networking opportunities. Students doing an internship typically have the chance to develop skills that are both specific to their discipline and highly transferable. The networking opportunities can significantly improve a student’s chance of finding relevant work in industry, and may enrich thei...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/internships-have-a-role-in-graduate-programs/
À mon avis
A long-term commitment to sustaining a highly diverse talent pool is the cornerstone of robust economic and social policies.
networking hubs connecting different sectors for resident and foreign researchers. Scientific diasporas can provide additional opportunities for networking and mentoring, but to our knowledge there is not an organized network of scientific diasporas in STEM fields in Canada. Furthermore, academic re...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/how-canada-can-attract-international-talent-and-improve-knowledge-exchange/
À mon avis
Life experience is a transferrable skill.
networking they offer.
Although the student population is traditionally composed of young students on linear career paths, the demographics are changing. Colleges, universities and society in general must therefore adapt to this new reality. To support mature women in STEM, the education system s...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/universities-should-embrace-womens-non-linear-career-paths/
The Black Hole-FR
networking.
Last week, I attended the inaugural Till and McCulloch meeting in Montreal (it's the offspring of the Canadian Stem Cell Network's annual general meeting) and was part of a full day workshop specifically designed for early career researchers on academic grant writing. I have been a me...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/the-black-hole/networks-the-big-kind-and-how-they-drive-canadian-science/
The Black Hole-FR
In this guest post, Damien Wilpitz details how to negotiate a start-up package that reflects your needs.
networking, expertise, or even your own funding (if you have it). It’s up to you to illustrate and demonstrate your value by offering up solutions to current weaknesses they may be experiencing.
3. Third, understand the institute’s mission and goals. The institute will have m...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/the-black-hole/how-we-turned-1-million-start-up-award-to-3-million/
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