Peer Career Discovery Groups (Online): Career Exploration for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in the life sciences
Why join the听Peer Career Discovery Groups (PCDG)听Program, Now ONLINE?
Our 5 web conferences will help graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in the life and health sciences:
- Learn how to evaluate听careers for fit
- Plan for your career
- Effectively search听for jobs听
- Develop and fortify your academic听CV听
- Build your听networking skills, meet fellow trainees and much more!
This program will help you prepare for your career through听5 free web conferences and听through independent research and networking with听PCDG听participants.
The Schedule of Topics (you can join one session or multiple but we recommend that you join multiple):听
Topic 1 (Wednesday, April 8, 9:30 鈥� 11 am): Introduction to the remote version of PCDG and Introduction to Career Exploration
Topic 2 (Wednesday, April 15, 9:30 鈥� 11 am): Planning your career using design thinking
Topic 3 (Wednesday, April 22, 9:30 鈥� 11 am): Discovering your career options
Topic 4 (Wednesday, April 29, 9:30 鈥� 11 am): Effectively digging deeper into your career matches
Topic 5 (Wednesday, May 6, 9:30 鈥� 11 am): An introduction to non-academic CVs
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Each web conference will consist of three parts:
Part 1: Introduction to the topic (10-15 minutes)
Part 2: Breakout groups with peers (20 - 25 minutes)
Part 3: Group Discussion, Assignment of exercises at home, and Question period (10 - 15听minutes)
Participants will also receive the PCDG workbook.听
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You are invited to register in advance at听听