Two Sessions:
Tuesday, April 12, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm: Post-Doctoral Fellows/Senior Doctoral Candidates
Wednesday, April 13, 9:00am – Noon: Early Doctoral and Master’s Students
Facilitator: Dr. Lisa Balbes
Graduate Student Centre, Crescent Road, Point Grey Campus
Free Admission
We are pleased to welcome back Dr. Lisa Balbes, whose sessions last year were very successful and well-received. These interactive seminars are designed to assist post-doctoral fellows and graduate students in the sciences to understand their future career options. The agenda includes:
- Academia, Industry, Government and the differences among them as employers
- Non-traditional careers: What are they? What skills are needed?
- What do you have to offer an employer?
- What is important to you and why does that matter in a career search?
- Your personal data format and sample résumés and CVs for scientists
Note: Each attendee is asked to bring a résumé (draft will do) because the final part of the session will include a peer review of each other’s résumés for feedback.
Dr. Lisa M. Balbes is the author of Nontraditional Careers for Chemists, published by Oxford University Press in 2006. She earned her Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and her undergraduate degrees in chemistry and psychology from Washington University in St Louis. She founded Balbes Consultants in 1992 to provide scientific writing services and custom workshops to more than 50 client companies, including Bausch and Lomb Surgical, Divergence, Sigma Aldrich, Stereotaxis, and the FDA. Dr. Balbes is currently a councilor for the St Louis local section of the American Chemical Society, and chair of their Committee on Economic and Professional Affairs.
Admission: These sessions are open to UBC PDFs and currently enrolled graduate students. Admission is free, but advance registration is required. We regret we cannot accommodate drop-ins who do not register.
Refreshments: Beverages will be provided. Please bring your own mug.
Registration: Please make sure that you choose the correct registration link…
PDF ONLY: Registration for Tuesday, April 12, 1 pm – 4 pm:
https://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1ge61
Doctoral and Master’s Student Registration. This online registration site will ask you to choose either Tuesday, April 12, OR Wednesday, April 13, depending on your status in your program:
https://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1gdf8
Applicants will receive confirmation within 2 working days. If you have difficulty registering, contact gradgps@interchange.ubc.ca
This event is co-funded by the Faculty of Graduate Student GPS Program, and the UBC Post-Doctoral Fellows Office. For further information about GPS, visit: http://www.grad.ubc.ca/current-students/gps-graduate-pathways-success
For further information about the PDFO, visit: http://www.grad.ubc.ca/postdocs
FoGS appreciates the support of UBC Graduate Student Society for this event.
