Events across campus

Major recurring events

Centre for Career Development workshops

Are you unable to attend one of Centre for Career Development's live workshops or missed a particular workshop you're interested in? The Centre for Career Development has alternative online workshops that you can take at any time at your own pace. In these workshops, you will find a short video, activities, and links to additional resources and information for next steps.

Note: UWaterloo log-in is required to access these workshops.

Career development workshops:

• Creating your Résumé
• Writing a Compelling Cover Letter
• How to Interview Effectively
• Personal Branding Part 1: Build Your Brand
• Personal Branding Part 2: Articulate Your Brand
• Networking to Job Search
• Networking at Conferences

Academic career development workshops:

• Academic CV's
• Academic Cover Letters
• Academic Interviews

Mitacs offers a series of courses on topics relevant to graduate students. Each course bundle involves a self-paced asynchronous component, and a synchronous virtual session (dates for which can be found in the calendar above). Completion of both components will earn you an official certificate of completion from Mitacs for that course. 

To access Mitacs online courses, you will need to create an account on EDGE, the Mitacs online learning management system. To get started: 

1. Visit the Mitacs EDGE login page.
2. Create a new account. Please do not attempt to use your existing login credentials with previous Mitacs platforms, they will not work.
3. Confirm your account by following the prompt in the verification email that is sent to you. This will redirect you to back to the login page, where you can now sign in. 
4. Select your Learner Affiliation using the drop-down list. Select "General Learner."
5. Fill out the personal information page to complete your registration. 

Once you have created an EDGE account, you may enrol in the following self-paced, asynchronous online courses:

• Advance your reach (Networking Skills)
• Spur up your project management and time management skills (Project and Time Management)
• Foster a culture of reconciliation, equity, diversity, and inclusion (Reconciliation and EDI)
• Enhance your communication skills (Communication Skills)
• Boost your career (Career Planning)
• High-performing leadership and teams (Leadership Skills)
• Refine your writing and presentation skills (Writing and Presentation Skills)

Mitacs offers both synchronous and asynchronous courses through the EDGE platform. Asynchronous courses are listed as an "Online Course", while synchronous sessions are listed as an "Instructor-Led Course". As all synchronous sessions are currently being offered online, they are open to graduate students from across Canada.

The Student Success Office (SSO) offers access to intercultural learning modules part of an Open Educational Resource (OER) called Advancing Intercultural Competence for Global Learners. This can be accessed in both English and French.