ASPIRE: Skills Training and Professionalization for Graduate Students
ASPIRE is a professional skills development training program for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows at Laurier aiming to set you on the path for post-degree success. ASPIRE, provides a framework to help you craft an individualized, extracurricular learning plan tailored to navigating your professional journey and entry to the workplace. ASPIRE assists you in identifying, developing and translating knowledge and skills into job competencies associated with a range of work options. This includes those in higher education, the private sector, non-profit organizations and government.
Through lectures, group work, workshops, intensive seminars and one-on-one consultations, ASPIRE supports your professional development throughout school along the way to your chosen career path.
Through ASPIRE, you can access tools and resources designed to help you articulate professional goals, identify transferable knowledge and skill sets, and utilize at set of workshops and program information that help you reach your personal and professional goals.
The ASPIRE program is divided into five pillars:
You are encouraged to participate in workshops and to access available resources across all five pillars.
