Navigating the Career Transitions through the Individualized Development Plan (IDP) (Faculty of Graduate Studies)
Supporting the professional development of our graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in a multifaceted way drives the mission of Graduate Studies at York and is key to creating success. Our commitment is to ensure that you have all the tools you need to succeed within and beyond the academic world. The Graduate & Postdoctoral Professional Skills (GPPS) program is divided into six broad areas to connect you to opportunities and resources that will help you develop your professional plans and goals, and to strategically meet those goals:
- Career Exploration and Planning
- Communication
- Health and Wellness
- Managing Time and Resources
- Research Dissemination
- Teaching
How to Search for Opportunities and Resources
- Use the ‘Select a Theme’ dropdown to filter opportunities and resources by skills area and click ‘Submit’
Additional Search Options
- The ‘Select Format’ option can also be selected to filter opportunities by mode of delivery
- The ‘Search by Keyword’ box can also be used to browse by keyword
- To reset previous selections and see all available opportunities, click the ‘Reset’ button
- 1x1 Writing Appointments* (Writing Centre)
- Accelerating Women Led Ventures - ELLA (Innovation York)
- Applied Qualitative Research: A Practical Guide for Graduate Student Researchers (Faculty of Graduate Studies)
- Beyond the Professoriate's Career Training Platform
- Black Entrepreneurship Alliance (BEA) (Innovation York)
- Campus Recreation (York University Athletics & Recreation)
- Career Development Workshops & Webinars* (Co-op & Career Centre)
- Certificate in Personal Wellness (Faculty of Graduate Studies)
- Create a Data Management Plan for your Grant Application (York University Libraries)
- Data Discovery for your Research: Health Sciences (York University Libraries)
- Data Discovery for your Research: Social Sciences (York University Libraries)
- Decolonizing, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (DEDI) Toolkit (Centre for Human Rights, Equity & Inclusion)
- Demystifying Graduate Academic Writing (Faculty of Graduate Studies & the Writing Centre)
- From PhD to Postdoc: Crafting Competitive Applications for External Fellowships (Faculty of Graduate Studies & the Writing Centre)
- Graduate Student Wellness Services* (Faculty of Graduate Studies)
- Graduate Writing Café Seminar Series* (Writing Centre)
- Ideas Consultations (Innovation York)
- Knowledge Mobilization MobilizeU (Innovation York)
- Knowledge Mobilization Resources (Innovation York)
- LEAD: Lifelong Education and Development
- Learning Skills Resources (Student Community & Leadership Development)
- Leveraging Online Professional Development Resources for Career Growth (Faculty of Graduate Studies)
- LinkedIn Learning (York University)
- Master's and PhD Career Counselling 1-on-1 Appointments* (Co-op & Career Centre)
- Mitacs Training Workshops (Mitacs)
- National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity (NCFDD) (Provost & Vice-President Academic)
- Navigating Professional Development at York: A Guide for Graduate Students and Postdocs (Faculty of Graduate Studies)
- Open Education 101 (York University Libraries)
- PhD Pathways: Career Conversation (Faculty of Graduate Studies)
- Practise Your Conference Presentation Skills (Faculty of Graduate Studies)
- Publishing your research data in a data repository (York University Libraries)
- REDDI© (Respect, Equity, Diversity, Decolonization & Inclusion) Professional Development (Centre for Human Rights, Equity and Inclusion)
- Research Ethics (Office of Research Ethics)
- Resources for Teaching Assistants (TAs) (Teaching Commons)
- Teaching Commons Certificates (Teaching Commons)
- Teaching Commons Resources (Teaching Commons)
- Teaching Commons Workshops & Events (Teaching Commons)
- The Digital Scholarship Centre (York University Libraries)
- Time Management Resources (Student Community & Leadership Development)
- Tri-Council and OGS Scholarship Application Workshops – Doctoral* (Faculty of Graduate Studies)
- Tri-Council and OGS Scholarship Application Workshops – Master’s* (Faculty of Graduate Studies)
- Wellness Consultations for Graduate Students* (Faculty of Graduate Studies)
- Who's (not) counted: finding published data about ethnic and racialized populations in Canada (York University Libraries)
- Writing Support for the Graduate Community (Writing Centre)
- York University Libraries Instructional Workshops (York University Libraries)
- YSpace Entrepreneurship & Innovation Hub (Innovation York)
- Zotero Basics: Citations and Bibliographies Made Easy (York University Libraries)
- Zotero Collections: Organizing What You Have (York University Libraries)
FGS and its various partners strive to support graduate students and postdoctoral fellows with a variety of workshops, lectures, presentations, seminars and other resources to enhance their experience at York and add to their skillset.