Be Your Own Driver: Imagining Post-PhD Career Versatility

Overview

This four-part event series “Be Your Own Driver: Imagining Post-PhD Career Versatility” includes the following events:

• March 21: Mentoring and Advising Relationships: What Skills am I Developing? – Participants will identify the roles they play as mentors and advisors and articulate the skills they develop in interpersonal communication, multicultural competence, and active listening.
• March 28: Building my Networks and Engagement in Communities: What Connections am I Growing and Why? – Participants will identify their peer and mentor networks, identify roles they play in various communities and how those roles translate into professional skills, and make their own mentor network map and develop skills and confidence for developing their network.
• April 4: Graduate Skills and Competencies: How am I the Author and Narrator of my Story? – Participants will identify their graduate skills and competencies and consider how that is developed in their graduate studies and areas to grow.
• April 11: Putting it All Together: How do I Articulate and Implement a Career Development Plan? – Participants will develop strategies and utilize resources for incorporating the concepts of the previous weeks into a cogent, actionable career development plan.

Registration

This event is open to the public. Registration opens on January 10. You must register in order to attend; you will receive Zoom information upon registration.

Event Schedule

These online events take place on Tuesday March 21, March 28, April 4, and April 11 at 12:30-2PM CT.

Accessibility

CIRTL strives to be inclusive of anyone interested in participating in their activities. If you have specific accessibility needs, please contact CIRTL at info@cirtl.net in advance.