The value of participating in non-academic career activities

Rebecca Pero explains why grad students should seek out non-academic career activities while pursuing their PhD in this article in University Affairs.

GSLI Newsletter - October 5 to November 30

The new issue of the GSLI newsletter is now available. Click here to download a copy of the newsletter.

GSLI Newsletter - September 26 to October 28, 2016

We hope the semester is off to a good start for you, and will continue to go well. To help with that, the new edition of the GSLI newsletter is now available. There are a substantial number of writing and teaching workshops available in September and October, so check them out and see which one(s) would be helpful to you. We are now in the midst of "scholarship" season so check out the information sessions and links to information about major scholarship applications (NSERC, CIHR, SSHRC, OGS, etc) that are due during the semester. As always, workshops are free to all registered graduate students and postdoctoral scholars.

Do you have the "soft skills" you need to satisfy an employer?

You have completed and defended your thesis and now you want to enter the job market. Are you ready?
Two recent posts discuss the "soft skills" that you need to be successful on the job.

Are You Career Competent? In an article from From Inside Higher Ed, Joseph Barber outlines the competencies that employers are looking for in new employees.

A similar article in EAB outlines the soft skills that employers want most in their new recruits.

The LEGO grad student

A PhD student has created a social media series with LEGO blocks to cope with grad school challenges that s/he (the student is staying anonymous for now) describes as "A hollow head struggling to make it through a blocky world".

Check out the posts here and see which ones you can relate to.

GSLI newsletter - September 10 to September 30, 2016

Hello everyone:

Welcome to the new semester. To start you off, the new edition of the GSLI newsletter is now available. There are a substantial number of writing and teaching workshops available in September, so check them out and see which one(s) would be helpful to you. As always, they are free to all registered graduate students and postdoctoral scholars.

GSLI newsletter - August 26 to September 30, 2016

The August 26 to September 30 issue of the GSLI newsletter is now available for download in this folder. There are lots of writing workshops available this September. In addition, if new grad students are joining your lab, please let them know about the grad orientation sessions.

They can click here to register for the general session on September 6, or here to register for the international session on September 15.

We hope that you enjoyed the summer, however you chose to spend it.