Mitacs professional skills workshop for Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Fellows: Networking Skills
Attention Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Fellows! Are you looking for valuable professional skills to help you in your future career?
Please note the following upcoming Mitacs workshop related to professional career development.
Register early as space is limited!
Networking Skills - Thunder Bay
When: Tuesday, March 22, 2016
Time: 9:00am – 5:00pm (Registration starts at 8:45am)
Where: Lakehead University
Room: ATAC 5035 (Lakehead University Thunder Bay Campus)
Link to registration: https://step.mitacs.ca/en/workshop/2016/03/networking-skills-thunder-bay-march-22-2016
About the Session
The workshop covers five areas of networking: why it matters; how to assess and build a network; tools and techniques of networking; social intelligence & social conversations; and follow-up & follow-through. Students finesse their networking skills using real-world examples and role-playing exercises with fellow attendees and acquire a conceptual understanding of networking principles as well as the practical tools with which to implement them.