Canadian Career Symposium

Each year, the GPDN hosts a virtual career symposium for Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Fellows aimed at professional development and career exploration.  Presentations by GPDN members and invited experts cover topics including inspirational keynotes, career self-assessments, resumes, informational interviews, and networking. 

The 2023 Career Symposium runs from October 24 to October 26 and includes a keynote address by Alex Abdel Malek, a clinical therapist who is an expert on overcoming perfectionism and breaking patterns of procrastination. Registration is open to graduate students and postdoctoral fellows from sponsoring institutions. 

For information about how to designate your institution as a sponsoring institution, please email symposium@gpdn-rpesp.ca or jacqui.brinkman@ubc.ca. 

Registration is open for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows from sponsoring institutions through Eventbrite. Don't see your institution below? Please email symposium@gpdn-rpesp.ca. The full symposium schedule (PDF) is now available, as well as full program details and descriptions in both French (PDF) and English (PDF).

Sponsors include: 

• Athabasca University
• Brock University
• Carleton University
• Concordia University
• Dalhousie University
• HEC Montréal
  
• Hospital for Sick Children
• McGill University
• McMaster University
• Memorial University
• Ontario Tech University
• Polytechnique Montréal 
• Queen's University
• Simon Fraser University
• Toronto Metropolitan University
• Trent University
• Université de Montréal 

• Université de Sherbrooke

• Université Laval

• University of Alberta
• University of British Columbia
• University of British Columbia, Okanagan
• University of Calgary
• University of Guelph
• University of Lethbridge, School of Graduate Studies
• University of Manitoba
• University of New Brunswick
• University of Regina
• University of Saskatchewan
• University of Toronto
• University of Victoria
• University of Waterloo
• University of Windsor
• University of Winnipeg
• UQAT
• UQO
• Western University
• York University

Symposium Canadien sur les Carrières

Chaque année, le RPESP organise un symposium virtuel sur les carrières pour les étudiants aux cycles supérieurs et pour les chercheurs postdoctoraux, portant sur le développement professionnel et sur l’exploration de carrière. Les discours liminaires visent à inspirer et les présentations, données par des membres du RPESP et par des experts invités, abordent des sujets tels l’auto-évaluation professionnelle, la création du curriculum vitae, l’entretien d’information et le réseautage.

L’édition 2023 du symposium se tiendra du 24 au 26 octobre. Les discours liminaires seront donnés par Alex Abdel Malek. L’inscription est ouverte pour les étudiants de deuxièmes et de troisièmes cycles et pour les postdoctorants provenant d’établissements commanditaires.