Empowering Graduate Students & Postdoc Scholars for Success
Our Professional Development Team at CGPS is dedicated to equipping graduate students and postdocs with the essential skills, knowledge, and experiences needed for successful career transitions. We offer a comprehensive suite of services designed to enhance personal and professional growth, foster career readiness, and build a strong professional network.
Visit the Grad HUB for a directory of supports & services.
Workshops
Seamlessly integrated with USask's Learning Management System, the Level UP dashboard offers a diverse selection of professional development (PD) options developed by CGPS' PD Specialist. Choose from a variety of self-directed or face-to-face offerings tailored to your needs.
Individual Development Plan
The Grad HUB's Individual Development Plan (IDP) is a valuable resource designed to help you chart your academic and professional development towards your career aspirations. The IDP aids in identifying your career goals, development opportunities, and the essential tools needed to achieve them. Ultimately, the IDP aims to support you in planning for your future and maximizing your graduate student experience.
Beyond Graduate School
The Beyond Graduate School platform is a one-of-a-kind, online platform that helps master's students make the most out of their investment and build their careers. The platform offers a variety of training modules and resources that master's students can explore by topic.
Beyond the Professoriate
The Beyond the Professoriate platform is an online professional development platform designed to help graduate students and postdocs transition into academic or non-academic careers. The platform offers a variety of training modules and resources, including free access to annual career conferences.
Mentorship Program
USask’s graduate mentorship program allows graduate students (mentees) to receive support and guidance from current professionals to enrich their academic and professional journeys. Through these mentoring relationships, graduate students develop and enhance the skills, knowledge, attitudes, and connections they need to support their successful career transitions.
The program aims to:
- Support graduate students by providing guidance, advice, and professional connections to foster their academic and professional growth.
- Offer tailored career development guidance, exploring diverse career paths.
- Enhance networking opportunities with professionals and USask alumni.
Falling Walls Lab
Falling Walls is an exciting pitch competition that challenges students, postdoctoral fellows, and early career professionals to develop a compelling argument for their innovative research and its potential to change the world.
USask joins the Falling Walls Edmonton Lab to compete for a spot at the Falling Walls Science Summit in Berlin, Germany.
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ProSkills
To help graduate faculty equip students and postdoctoral scholars with professional skills for success both inside and outside academia, we’ve developed a suite of easily deployable modules that can be integrated into any course, providing valuable resources to enhance your students' career development.
This project was initially led by former Associate Dean Ryan Walker and a team of subject matter experts from CGPS and GMCTL.
For more info contact grad.pd@usask.ca
Connect
Meet Kenisha Blair, the Professional Development Specialist at CGPS. A chartered professional in human resources (CPHR) and lifelong learner, Kenisha is passionate about collaboratively impacting the lives of other professionals through her work. Talk to Kenisha about your professional development needs!
Get in touch with the team at grad.pd@usask.ca.