IDP Benefits
The Individual Development Plan (IDP) helps you reflect, plan, and report working toward achieving your academic and professional goals.
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Mobilize toward your goals Create a map of where you want to go and how you plan to get there |
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Enhance the mastery of your disciplinary skills Acquire insights, experience, and understanding of your desired industry |
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Career evaluation Explore and evaluate your career choices, taking into account your skills, interests and values |
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Career preparation Identify your strengths, areas for development, and areas of focus required for your chosen career path |
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Facilitate conversation Facilitate conversations with your supervisor, committee, and mentors around your development and career progression |
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Guide networking Direct where you want to build industry connections and networks to facilitate achieving goals |
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Plan activities Prioritize day-to-day activities, coursework, projects, extracurricular activities, and professional development opportunities based on their relevance and alignment with your goals |
Career Progression Skills
Discover PD designed to enhance your expertise in six pivotal competency areas tailored to empower you with the skills necessary to excel in today’s fast-paced academic and professional landscapes.
- Professional Communication
- Intercultural Engagement
- Project Management
- Interpersonal Relations
- Ideation & Entrepreneurial Thinking
- Leadership
Graduate faculty, ask us about integrating ProSkills into your graduate curriculum with premade and easy-to-use modules in these core competency areas.
Visit CGPS' PAWS channel (must be signed in to PAWS using your NSID and password) to download and incorporate professional skills content.
Career Exploration
In an innovative approach to preparing graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to adapt to the job market, the College of Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies has partnered with Beyond the Professoriate providing free access to the Beyond the Professoriate (BtP) career-exploration platform.
Leaving academia can feel like a big, mysterious step into the unknown. After years of being successful in academia, it can be daunting and overwhelming to launch a professional job search. The BtPjob market and professional careers online exploration and planning tool offers 2 programs of study to help students learn successful job search strategies:
- the Academic Careers Pathway program
- the Professional Careers Pathway program
All USask BtP users have access to a one-of-a-kind video library where students can watch interviews with PhDs working in all sectors: academia, government, higher education administration, industry, and non-profits as well as all access to Beyond the Professoriate events and platform support.
Get Started.
Seamlessly integrated with USask's Learning Management System, our LevelUP dashboard offers you a diverse selection of professional development (PD) options. Choose from a variety of self-directed or face-to-face offerings tailored to your needs. Sign up!
Featured Events
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Three minutes is all it takes! Falling Walls Lab is a world-class pitch competition where participants showcase their groundbreaking ideas. This global platform connects a diverse mix of students and early-career professionals, encouraging innovation, enhancing communication skills and creating a space for our impactful and sustainable community to thrive.
Winners from each local event earn a spot at the Berlin global finale each year, receive a ticket to the Falling Walls Science Summit and are invited to participate in an exclusive extended programme during their stay.
Finals | 2024 Sept 20
In-person at the University of Alberta