Professional Communication Graduate Resources and Workshops Across Campus
Beyond the Professoriate
In an innovative approach to preparing graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to adapt to a post-pandemic job market, the College of Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies has partnered with Beyond the Professoriate and is offering free access to the Aurora career-exploration platform.
- The Beyond the Professoriate platform offers live webinars and exceptional resources that can be used to further enhance in person practice of skills such as completing Informational Interviews, writing a draft of your PhD career transition story, translating your academic work experience into the language of non-academic employers, and more.
Career Services
Career services specialize in one-on-one career coaching. Direct connections to building networks through career services are listed below.
Mitacs Training
Mitacs is a training program provided for free to USask students. Mitacs training provides courses with eight unique themes consisting of eight asynchronous courses and seven synchronous courses. Your students can sign up for the asynchronous courses and you can follow up together with in-class practice and feedback. Alternatively, you can have students sign up for the paired asynchronous and synchronous course through Mitacs and follow up with them so they can reflect on their experience and add and annotate evidence of competency in their portfolio.
The Mitacs courses that align with professional communication are:
Networking skills, Communication skills, and Writing and presentation skills.
Research Profile and Impact Department
The Research Profile and Impact Department offers workshops and has excellent resources for supporting students in telling their research story.
Services they provide include:
- Strategic research communications and advice
- Reputation and profile building
- Issues management, crisis communications, and reputational risk management
- External communications coordination
- Major news announcements and events
- Plain language and storytelling workshops
Check out the event calendar here.
Beyond the Professoriate
In an innovative approach to preparing graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to adapt to a post-pandemic job market, the College of Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies has partnered with Beyond the Professoriate and is offering free access to the Aurora career-exploration platform.
- The Beyond the Professoriate platform offers live webinars and exceptional resources that can be used to further enhance in person practice of skills such as completing Informational Interviews, writing a draft of your PhD career transition story, translating your academic work experience into the language of non-academic employers, and more.
Career Services
Career services specializes in one-on-one career coaching. Direct connections to professional communication through career services is included below.
Knowledge Mobilization and Adapting Communication for Diverse Audiences
Refer students to the Career Services Interview website so students gain experience to add to their portfolio through:
- Interview Talks
- Mock Interviews
Refer students to the Career Services Resumes and CVs website and encourage them to follow up with a 30 min Resume Talk with a Career Educator.
Library Services Graduate Learning Hub
You can find Library Services Workshops at the following link or search from the following specific areas.
Please reach out to your department liaison for more information on offering a session tailored to your students’ needs.
The following library sessions align with Adapting Communication for Diverse Audiences. The links below take you to previously recorded sessions.
Research Profile and Impact Department
The Research Profile and Impact Department offers workshops and has excellent resources for supporting students in telling their research story.
Check out the event calendar here or reach out to them for sessions on:
- Providing media releases in response to news events
- Submitting an article to Conversation Canada
- Opinion writing
- Video storytelling
- Creating a Research Minute video
Beyond the Professoriate
In an innovative approach to preparing graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to adapt to a post-pandemic job market, the College of Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies has partnered with Beyond the Professoriate and is offering free access to the Aurora career-exploration platform.
- The Beyond the Professoriate platform offers live webinars and exceptional resources that can be used to further enhance in person practice of skills such as completing Informational Interviews, writing a draft of your PhD career transition story, translating your academic work experience into the language of non-academic employers, and more.
Career Services
Career services specializes in one-on-one career coaching. Direct connections to Mobilizing Knowledge through career services is included below.
Refer students to the Career Services Interview website so students gain experience to add to their portfolio through:
- Interview Talks
- Mock Interviews
Refer students to the Career Services Resumes and CVs website and encourage them to follow up with a 30 min Resume Talk with a Career Educator.
Mitacs Training
Mitacs is a training program provided for free to USask students. Mitacs training provides courses with eight unique themes consisting of eight asynchronous courses and seven synchronous courses. Your students can sign up for the asynchronous courses and you can follow up together with in-class practice and feedback. Alternatively, you can have students sign up for the paired asynchronous and synchronous course through Mitacs and follow up with them so they can reflect on their experience and add and annotate evidence of competency in their portfolio.
The Mitacs courses that align with professional communication are:
Networking skills, Communication skills, and Writing and presentation skills.
Beyond the Professoriate
In an innovative approach to preparing graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to adapt to a post-pandemic job market, the College of Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies has partnered with Beyond the Professoriate and is offering free access to the Aurora career-exploration platform.
- The Beyond the Professoriate platform offers live webinars and exceptional resources that can be used to further enhance in person practice of skills such as completing Informational Interviews, writing a draft of your PhD career transition story, translating your academic work experience into the language of non-academic employers, and more.
Career Services
Career services specializes in one-on-one career coaching. Direct connections to professional communication through career services is included below.
Using Technology to Enhance Communication
Library Services
You can find Library Services Workshops at the following link:
Please reach out to your department librarian for more information on offering a session tailored to your students’ needs.
The following library sessions align with Using Technology to Enhance Communication and include links to previously recorded sessions.