Presenters:
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Christine Kampen Robinson (Career Advisor, Graduate, Centre for Career Action)
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Ryan Carroll (PhD student, Germanic and Slavic Studies)
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Kyle Gerber (PhD student, English)
Christine Kampen Robinson presented a workshop offered by the Centre for Career Action (CCA) to undergrads and grads to help them identify their skills, abilities, and potential areas of growth, and help them convey these clearly and confidently to employers.
Students often fail to recognize the professional skills they are developing. Ryan Carroll and Kyle Gerber shared how the workshop helped them recognize the professional skills they were developing within courses and programs, and how they might transfer these skills to settings outside the classroom. Furthermore, the workshop helped them each articulate these skills in a meaningful way to employers or other relevant stakeholders
What made this workshop of special interest to individual instructors is that CCA is offering a modified version of this workshop within the classroom to help students recognize skills they are developing within that particular course or program, to help students discover how best to articulate these to employers or other appropriate stakeholders. Students will recognize that the skills they are developing are useful in a broad range of areas, many of which they may never have considered.