Angela Roorda, Research Development Officer in the Faculty of
Arts, will review the main parts of the typical grant or fellowship
application, discuss how the adjudication process works and what
that means for you, and suggest strategies to help you pitch your
project to your best advantage.
Knowing your skills and abilities AND being able to clearly and confi dently
convey them to employers is critical to your success in the employment
process. Learn how to identify and articulate your strengths and discover
potential areas of growth. You will also devise a plan to enhance these skills.
Planning your career and identifying your skills don’t have to be
overwhelming processes. Get some simple and practical steps that
you can implement now to begin preparing for your academic or
non-academic career.
Centre for Knowledge Integration
Linda Carson teaches INTEG 251 Creative Thinking and she's bringing you a one-hour crash course in the fundamentals of reliable, sustainable idea generation:
- the four-stage creative process
The Canadian Osteopathic Medical Student Association (COMSA) and
Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine (MSU-COM)
will present information on osteopathic medicine. Learn what makes
osteopathic medicine unique, academic requirements, what schools look
for in an application, how to shadow DOs in Canada, and the process of
returning to Canada to practice as a licensed physician.
During this two-session workshop, learn how to apply successful
networking strategies in your daily life in order to enhance your career
opportunities. NOTE: There is a prerequisite for this workshop. Please
see chart for details.
Two-session workshop: attend the fi rst session to learn about your
personality type and preferences for learning and decision making. In the
second session, discover how to apply your MBTI type to explore potential
careers. NOTE: There is a materials charge of $10.00 payable at the Centre
for Career Action prior to the session. Once you have registered and paid,
you will be given information on how to complete the Myers-Briggs Type
Indicator (MBTI) online. The online assessment must be completed at least
Prof Bruce Frayne, Faculty of Environment, will describe the
steps to successfully plan for PhD career opportunities in an
academic environment.
Proper etiquette is crucial to a successful job search – and to your career.
This workshop covers dining etiquette as well as appropriate behaviour at
interviews, employer receptions, and other networking activities.
The Instructional Skills Workshop is a 24 hour series of microteaching sessions (held over 3 or 4 days) with peer feedback. It leads to a widely-recognized Certificate and includes instruction in learning theories as well as considerable application and practice.
The University of Waterloo will host a Ontario Benthos Biomonitoring Network training course in Huntsville, Ontario at the Waterloo Summit Centre for the Environment on May 28th to 30th, 2013.
The course will also be offered for a 2nd time on June 18-20, 2013.
The Ontario Benthos Biomonitoring Network (OBBN), which is coordinated by the Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Saugeen Valley Conservation Authority, is an aquatic macroinvertebrate biomonitoring network for Ontario's lakes, streams and wetlands.
In order to receive that job offer, you must prove your skills in the interview.
Here is your opportunity to practise and improve. NOTE: There is a
prerequisite for this workshop. Please see chart for details.
Celebrating the Music and Legacy of Iannis Xenakis.
The Institute for Quantum Computing, together with the Perimeter Institute and the Fields Institute present a two-day festival of contemporary string quartet, percussion, and electroacoustic music, together with lectures and discussion on the impact of Xenakis's work.
IQC will be hosting Grains of Sound: A Concert of Electroacoustics, Video and Robotics Performers.
Programme:
The Faculty of Engineering’s Student Design Centre, in cooperation with Engineering Outreach (WE Connect), the Waterloo Centre for Automotive Research (WatCAR) and Toyota will be hosting the second annual Electric Vehicle Challenge on Saturday May 25, 2013.
The challenge will feature 2 races in the 12 and 24 volt classes and an Engineering Design Award competition.
Attention lake association members, researchers, interested citizens and those who care about the health of our lakes and watersheds, this workshop is for you.
The Lessons Learned workshop provides an educational and sharing opportunity for those interested in learning about, protecting and caring for our Central Ontario lakes and watersheds. The theme for this workshop is Working Towards Effective Lake Stewardship.
While this workshop will be geared towards lake associations in Central Ontario, those with interests in other Ontario watersheds are encouraged to attend.
This session provides an overview of the Library’s key services & resources, with specific focus on you as a new faculty member or graduate student. It covers borrowing policies, requesting local & interlibrary loan document delivery, key resources by discipline, accessing articles from databases, remote access to library’s online resources, getting help, and more.
International students will learn the best approaches to search for work
while studying at uWaterloo as well as after graduating. NOTE: First hour
of the session covers general work search strategies; last half hour deals
with visa requirements. There is a prerequisite for this workshop. Please
see chart for details.
The IEEE Student Branch is hosting a talk entitled "How To Outsmart Business People" presented by Ian Tien.
If engineering and math are the most intellectually challenging academic programs, why are business people running organizations? This talk shares how anyone who is bright and motivated can move into business and management roles without any experience.
The speaker is a former UW IEEE student chair who became a manager at
Microsoft, and then founded a Y Combinator-backed startup in Silicon Valley while completing his MBA at Stanford.
Learn how to improve your performance in the job interview by viewing
and discussing taped excerpts of actual interviews. NOTE: There is a
prerequisite for this workshop. Please see chart for details.
This is a time to drop by EV1 242 to ask questions about the use of LEARN (version 10. 1). Two CTE Faculty liaisons will be available to answer your questions and help you determine the best way to organize your course content and set up learning activities. If you are new to LEARN, consider taking a “Getting Started in LEARN” session before attending a drop-in. Please bring your own laptop to work on. There is no need to register for this session – first come, first served.
