Getting the Most Out of Your Academic Experience

Graduate students today have a plethora of academic and professional obligations as well as opportunities they may engage in during their graduate journey. There are also many ways to define success both within and after graduate school.

• How do you choose which opportunities to take advantage of?
• Are you setting yourself up to succeed in your intended career path after graduate school?
• Do you even know that path?

Join this interactive workshop to take the lead of your education and hone your career intentions! The session will help you to:

• develop or enhance your academic plan for completing your graduate degree,
• explore possibilities and design your career path,
• build a road map for navigating the many opportunities available, and
• establish strategies for attaining your professional objectives.

Facilitated by

Jacqui Brinkman, MSc, is the Director of Graduate Student Professional Development at Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies. Through this role, she works to improve the graduate student experience. Previously, she has managed postdoctoral and undergraduate programs in the Faculty of Medicine and was a lab-based researcher both within academia and industry. She completed her MSc in Biology at McGill University.

Rebecca Dirnfeld, MA, is a Career Educator who works with the UBC Career Centre to support graduate students at UBC. She has a Career and Work Counselling Diploma from George Brown College. Her past experience includes leading the graduate student career education portfolio for graduate studies and managing the MBA careers team at Toronto Metropolitan University, and in providing career advising to business students as a team member of SFU’s Beedie Career Management Centre. Rebecca is also a part-time graduate student in UBC’s EDST MA program