Launch Your Career Plan supports graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to launch their career planning early in their studies.

This event guides you to critically reflect on career opportunities including further graduate studies, academia, and industry, and equip you with strategies and tools to explore your unique career aspirations. You will leave this event with tailored resources to dive deeper into the specific career pathways that interest you.

At this event, you will:

• Learn about parallel planning for further graduate studies, academia, and industry careers
• Use labour market data and networking tools to discover diverse academic and industry opportunities
• Apply networking strategies to connect with alumni to learn from their time at U of T Engineering and their work experience
• Create a plan to explore your specific career aspirations

This event is open to all graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. We welcome participants who have a clear idea of their career trajectory as well as those who are deciding between continuing in academia or finding an industry position. It is highly recommended that all graduate students and postdoctoral fellows attend this event near the beginning of their studies.

This event should be completed before the OPTIONS Cohort Program or Prospective Professors in Training (PPIT).

We offer a Launch Your Career Plan for: 1) MEng students; and 2) research graduate students and postdoctoral fellows.