ENG9500H: Professional Development

This course is intended to prepare University of Toronto PhD. students in English for the job search and more generally to provide them with an introduction to the professional skills that will be part of their lives after they finish the PhD. The course will meet the equivalent of 13 2-hour sessions, on selected Thursday afternoons through the academic year. Individual sessions will include the following topics: The Shape of the Profession; An Overview of the Academic Job Search and its Documents; Setting Up a Dossier; Preparing Letters of Application and CVs; The Teaching Dossier; Interviewing; Campus Visits and Job Talks; The Publication of Academic Research; An Assessment of the Year's Job Searches at U of T and Postdoctoral Fellowships. There will also be a session on Non-Academic Jobs (Publishing and Other Alternatives)

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