BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250811T012307EDT-0274177uzn@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20250811T052307Z DESCRIPTION:So…'What are you going to do after you graduate?!'\n\nThe quest ion is no doubt familiar\, and potentially anxiety-provoking\, to any stud ent or soon-to-be Arts graduate\, and it can be a challenging one to answe r. The possibilities are many\, and career paths and transitions often mak e much more sense in hindsight then they do when you are right in the mids t of them. Learning about the routes that others have followed can often b e helpful when you're thinking about your own options\, so if you're looki ng for ideas\, information\, inspiration\, motivation and advice\, come to Work Your BA organized by 鶹ɫƬ's Career Planning Service (CaPS) and the Arts Undergraduate Society (AUS).\n\n\nSCHEDULE OF EVENTS\n\nCaPS and AUS are organizing a buffet of events to feed your career curiosity from the NGO/Non Profit Fair to career panel discussions to a great roundtable even t to help you meet and learn from professionals in a wide variety of field s. In particular this year\, many of the events revolve around the theme o f making a difference and the multiple ways to make a positive impact whil e making a living.\n\n[to view the speakers and their bios\, click here]\n \n\nCast Your Network! Network Your Way to Your Dream Job!\n January 18th\, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm\n Brown 5001\n\n\nCredit? Loans? Budgets? Get Financial ly Savvy before you Graduate! \n January 19th\, 1:00 pm – 1:45 pm\n Brown 30 01\n\nJoin our guest facilitator\, Evelina Balut from SSAO for this short and sweet workshop to learn how to get and stay financially healthy as a g raduating student\n\n\nSPEED MENTORING EVENT\n January 20th\, 6:00 pm – 7:3 0 pm\n Thomson House Ballroom\n\nWondering about career possibilities and o ptions following your BA? Inspiration awaits at the “It Starts With Arts” roundtable. At the event\, students will have the chance to meet and talk briefly with professionals from a diverse range of fields who have used th eir BAs as a springboard to launch their careers!\n\nMENTORS: [to view the  bios\, click here]\n \n Jon McPhedran Waitzer\, BA\n 2015-2017 Public Leader ship Fellow at Fondation Jeanne Sauvé Foundation\n \n Chloe Ferguson\, BA’12 \n Executive Assistant to The Right Honourable Paul Martin\n \n Aquil Virani\ , BA’12\n Artist\, Graphic designer and Motivational speaker\n \n Hilary Mord en\, BA’11\n Annual Giving - Fundraising\, Food blogger/PR\n \n Géraud Banlie r\, BA’15\n Talent Acquisition Specialist at The Createch Group\n\nElizabet h Shiang\, BA’14\n Middle Office & Data Management at Maples Fund Services \n \n Lindsey Simpson\, BA'10\n Business Development Manager at Earth’s Own F ood Company Inc.\n \n Amanda Rushton\, BA’13\n Conferences & Special Events C oordinator\, University Advancement\, 鶹ɫƬ\; Freelance Event Management Consultant\n\nVickey Habel\, BA’07\n Client Advisor at Translati on Bureau\, Government of Canada\n\n\nWhere to Find Summer Jobs and Intern ships\n January 21st\, 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm\n Room change from Brown 3001 to L ev Bukhman\, SSMU Building\n\nLooking for a job or internship this summer? Start here! This popular workshop will focus on effective job-search stra tegies as well as providing a general overview of potential summer opportu nities\, and tips on how to make the most of any summer job/internship.\n \n\nSocially Impactful Careers:  Effective Altruists 鶹ɫƬ\n January 21st\ , 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm \n Leacock 232\n\nEffective Altruists at 鶹ɫƬ is just one chapter of a global social movement which applies evidence and reason to determine the most effective ways to improve the world. Here at 鶹ɫƬ \, Effective Altruists are challenging the way that our university approac hes philanthropy by emphasizing the equal value of all human life and\, by extension\, the moral imperative of doing our best to maximize philanthro pic outcomes.\n\nMost people think that working in the non-profit sector s traight out of university is the best way to make a difference while payin g the bills. As it turns out\, there are plenty of good reasons to think t his is not the case. On January 21st we'll be hearing from William MacAski ll\, Associate Professor in Philosophy at Oxford and cofounder of 80\,000 Hours\, a non-profit that conducts research and provides advice on how you can best make a difference through your career. After viewing William's T EDx talk\, Effective Altruists at 鶹ɫƬ will be holding an open conversat ion in order to evaluate what we as conscientious citizens ought to be doi ng with our professional lives. Join us as we try to figure out the best w ays to improve the world\, and meet 鶹ɫƬ students who are taking alterna tive professional routes to making a difference!\n\n\nLinkedIn Profile Adv ising\n January 22nd 9:30 am – 11:30 am\; January 28th 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm\n B rown 2200\n\nWondering about creating a LinkedIn profile but don’t know wh ere to start? Or want to make sure your basic profile is polished and effe ctive? Sign up for a 20 minute LinkedIn Profile Advising session through m yFuture and get your questions answered and some expert feedback!\n\n\nThi nking of a Career with the UN?\n January 22nd\, 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm\n Leacock 26\n\nPassionate about international issues? Human rights? Development? Th en you won’t want to miss our guest speaker from UN's HR department in New York\, who will help you understand what a career at the UN might look li ke and how to get there!\n\nSpeaker: John Ericson\, Chief of the Outreach Unit in the Office of Human Resources Management of the UN in New York.\n \nJohn joined the UN in Vienna in 1982 and has worked in social affairs\, training\, administration\, recruitment and staffing. He has spent five ye ars at the Economic Commission for Africa in Addis Ababa as a Social Affai rs Officer. He has served in peacekeeping operations in the former Yugosla via and Cambodia\, and has also worked in Bangkok and Nairobi. During this period\, he was involved in the evacuation of UN staff from Ethiopia in 1 991 and ran a polling station during the 1993 elections in Cambodia.\n\n\n FSWEP – Federal Student Work Experience Program \n January 25th\, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm\n Brown 5001\n\nLooking for something interesting and productive to do this summer? Apply for FSWEP to be considered for one of 9\,000+ Fed eral Government jobs across Canada. Options range from outdoor field work and research to office positions in administration\, IT and finance\, from work in trades to policy and communications and many more. Interested? Co me learn more from presenter Christian McIntyre\, Human Resources Advisor\ , Public Service Commission.\n\n\nWorking in Business:  From B.A. to C Sui te!\n January 25th\, 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm\n Leacock 219\n\nInterested in busine ss but don’t know where to start? Hear from young professionals who have p ut their BAs to work in the private sector!\n\nPanelists: [to view the bio s\, click here]\n\nAmanda Fulginiti\, BA’10\, MA’12\n Fashion Retail Recrui ter Consultant at Drake International\n\nStephanie Gutnik\, BA'11\n Directo r of Marketing and Business Development at BroadSign\n\nJillian Molenaar\, BA’13\n Sales Manager at Meltwater\n  \n Leon Mwotia\, BA\, MBA\n Community O perations Manager at Uber\n\n\nCAREER FAIR: NGO/Non-Profit Fair\n January 2 6th\, 11:00 am – 3:00 pm    \n Lev Bukhman & Madeleine Parent Rooms\, Shatn er Building (SSMU)\n\nThis popular fair targets organizations offering int ernships\, summer and volunteer opportunities both locally and abroad.                                \n\nList of participating organizations (more t o come):\n\nAIESEC 鶹ɫƬ http://aiesec.ca/\n Artistri Sud http://www.artis trisud.org\n Camp Des Voyageurs Tim Horton http://timhortons.com/ca/en/chil drens-foundation/camp-day-2015.php\n Carrefour de Solidarité Internationale de Sherbrooke http://www.csisher.com\n Centre for Recreational and Educati onal Activities (C.A.R.E.)  http://www.carecentre.org\n Colorectal Cancer A ssociation of Canada (CCAC) http://www.colorectal-cancer.ca/\n Crossroads I nternational http://www.cintl.org\n Cuso International http://www.cusointer national.org\n Equitas - International Center for Human Rights Education ht tps://equitas.org/en/\n Global Tesol College http://www.GlobalTesol.com\n Ho rizonCosmopolite http://www.horizoncosmopolite.com\n KIDS CODE JEUNESSE htt p://www.kidscodejeunesse.org\n NOVA Montréal http://www.novamontreal.com\n O metz http://www.ometz.ca\n Peace Corps http://www.peacecorps.gov/openings\n Quebec Environmental Law Centre / Centre québécois du droit de l’environne ment (CQDE) http://www.cqde.org\n SUCO http://www.suco.org\n SWAP by Voyages Merit http://www.merittravel.com\n The Quebec-Labrador Foundation/Atlantic Center for the Environment (QLF) http://www.qlf.org\n The Teapot 50+ Cente r http://theteapot.org\n The Yellow Door http://www.yellowdoor.org\n UNESCO Institute for Statistics http://www.uis.unesco.org/Pages/default.aspx\n YMC A http://my.ymcagta.org/netcommunity/page.aspx?pid=612\n\n\nStudent Change -Makers \n January 26th\, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm\n Brown 2200\n\nThere’s no need to wait until you graduate to make a difference! Come to this dynamic pane l to get inspired by the stories of current students who are already activ ely involved in raising funds and awareness for causes they care about.\n \nPanelists: [to view the bios\, click here]\n\nJames Macfarlane\n 鶹ɫƬ S tudents for Centraide\n\nHannah Taylor\n The Ladybug Foundation Inc.\n\nOme r Juma\n Adopt An Orphanage\, SOCENT\n\nPhoebe Warren\n Student Ambassador\, Arts Internship Office Seeds of Change project\n\n\nIs Law School for You ? Get the Scoop!\n January 27th\, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm\n Leacock 232\n\nLaw Sch ool. Should you go? What’s it like? How do you get in? What types of caree rs does it lead to?  This event will feature information and advice from M cGill’s Assistant Dean of 鶹ɫƬ and Recruitment\, current law student s and three law graduates.\n\nSpeakers: [to view the bios\, click here]\n \nAli Martin-Mayer\, B.C.L./LL.B\, 鶹ɫƬ\n Assistant Dean (鶹ɫƬ and Recruitment)\, 鶹ɫƬ Faculty of Law\n\nGemma Acco: 1L\n BA majors Politica l Science (minor in Law and Society) Concordia University\n\nGabrielle Tra han\, BA\, 鶹ɫƬ\n Fourth Year Law Student\n\nLainy Destin\, B.C.L./LL.B\, 鶹ɫƬ\, 2007\n Policy Officer\, International Security Policy - South Ame rica\, Department of National Defence / Ministère de la Défense nationale \n\nAdam Drori\, B.C.L./ LL.B\, 鶹ɫƬ\, 2010\n Associate\, Stikeman Elliot \n\nJohn Lofranco\, B.C.L./ LL.B\, 鶹ɫƬ\, 2010\n Road Running Coordinator \, Athletics Canada\n\n\nArts Grads in Research and Public Health\n January 28th\, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm\n Brown 2200\n\nInterested in public health\, res earch\, policy and health promotions? Wondering what these kinds of positi ons entail and what it takes to work in the field? Come hear from three sp eakers at different stages of their careers who will share their stories\, insights and advice! \n\nSpeakers: [to view the bios\, click here]\n\nChr istine Herr\, BA’06\, MPH’14\n Data and Research Coordinator\, World Federa tion of Hemophilia\n \n Meredith Kratzmann\, BA\, MA\n Project Officer\, CIHR Institute for Health Services and Policy Research\n\nKaitlyn Axelrod\, BA ’15\n Research Assistant\, 鶹ɫƬ\n\n\n Centre for Medical Educat ion\n Child & Adolescent Social Competence Lab\n Social Interaction Lab\n\n \n\nWork Your B.A. Closing Mixer\n January 29th\, 5:00 pm– 7:00 pm\n Arts 16 0\n\n\nAdditional Events:\n\nFederal Government Career and Networking Trip \n January 13th\, 6:30 pm - January 15\, 6:00 pm \n Ottawa\, ON\n\nIn Collab oration with CaPS and PGSS:\n\nInterested in exploring career opportunitie s within the federal government? Please join us for our second annual fede ral government career tour in Ottawa\, where you will have the opportunity to hear about career paths in the public sector\, and network with hiring managers. This will be an exclusive opportunity to network with governmen t officials and recent alumni. We will be visiting the following departmen ts this year:\n\n1. Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada\;\n 2. Employmen t and Social Development Canada\;\n 3. Public Safety Canada\; and\n 4. Globa l Affairs Canada.\n\nNote that a maximum of 40 seats are available.\n\nDet ails and Registration at: https://pgss.mcgill.ca/en/event/384\n\n\n6th Ann ual Faculty of Arts Undergraduate Research Event\n January 19th\, 4:30 pm\n Leacock 232\n\n4:30-5:30pm Undergraduate Research Presentations\n 5:30pm Re search Poster Showcase and Reception\n\n/arts-interns hips/faculty-arts-internship-office\n\nRegistration through myFuture. From your homepage\, click on the Events tab followed by the Workshop tab and keyword ARTS/BA 2016\n\n DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160118 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160129 SUMMARY:Work Your BA 2016: Explore\, Engage\, Lead! URL:/caps/channels/event/work-your-ba-2016-explore-eng age-lead-257395 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR