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Are You on Track?: Strategies (or Tools) for Success within and beyond Graduate Studies

Jan 13/12

Date: Jan 13/12
Time: 10:15 - 14:00
Location: Paul Martin Centre
Cost: Free

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January is a great time to take stock of where you are with respect to your academic, professional and career goals. This interactive session will provide graduate students with an opportunity to:

Connect with graduate students from other departments
Normalize the challenges and opportunities of a graduate program
Reflect on academic and professional progress to date
Identify resources for framing your academic, career and professional goals
Develop an individual action plan

In order to optimize your experience on January 13, you will be asked to complete a few exercises prior to your arrival. Watch for more information.

This session is collaboratively hosted by the Faculty of Graduate and Post-Doctoral Studies, Career Development Centre, Teaching Support Services, and Learning Services.

Lunch is sponsored by the GSA

Tentative Agenda...

Time	Session Information
10:15 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.	Check-in and Refreshments
10:30 a.m. – 10:35 a.m.	Welcome and Overview Dr. Matt Smith, Acting Associate Dean of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
10:35 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.	Wheels Within Wheels: The Overlapping Cycles of Degree Completion and Professionalization Dr. Matt Smith, Acting Associate Dean of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, will give a brief introduction on the importance of syncing degree completion times with professionalization in order to be ready for the marketplace upon graduation.
11:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.	Wellness 101
11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.	Actualizing Your Goals: How to Achieve Your Academic, Professional, and Individual Goals This fifty minute workshop, offered by Michael Lisetto-Smith, Manager of Study Skills and Supplemental Instruction with Learning Servcies, will focus on the elements required for accomplishing a successful professionalization program, breaking down the degree and professionalization stream into its core components, as well as developing a targeted action plan to meet your academic, professional, and individual goals.
12:15 p.m. – 12:35 p.m.	Lunch (sponsored by the GSA)
12:35 p.m.– 12:50 p.m.	Wellness 102
12:50 p.m. – 1:50 p.m.	The Degree “Cycle”: Building a Foundation for Self-Awareness and Career Development A Career Consultant with the Centre for Career Development, will give a 50-minute workshop on self- and career-awareness. The workshop will cover the career planning process as well as targeted exercises designed to help you self-identify where you are in the career planning cycle in respect to your degree completion timelines.
1:50 p.m.– 2:00 p.m.	Wrap-up and Final Q&A

Contact: Mary Neil
Email: mneil@wlu.ca
Phone: 519.884.0710 ext.3507

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