McGill University has many great services that can help you in your career planning as you move toward graduation. The McGill Career Planning Service (CaPS) and the Desautels Faculty of Management Career Services are two great ways to seek out help.
In collaboration with the Desautels Faculty of Management, the library has created a Career Research and Resources guide that can help you identify potentials companies you may want to work for after graduation. You can follow the 2-Hour Job Search and use the LAMP method to find your dream companies or you can explore our other resources available to see what is out there.
On this guide you will also finds tools you can use for career and professional development, helpful books to keep you up to date, and more!
Business Librarians Amanda Wheatley and Dawn McKinnon are available for any questions you may have about how to use these resources.
Did you know that the Library offers free online workshops to help with your research?
The Digital Scholarship Hub at the McGill Library is proud to present its Fall 2020 Workshop Schedule. This semester we are offering 27 interactive workshops and lively discussions on artificial intelligence, research data management, digital scholarship tools, scholarly communications, and more!
This workshop will provide attendees with an overview of the best practices for efficiently managing data during the research process. Just like project management, implementing effective research data management (RDM) practices is an important way to save time, stay organized, and ensure that your research process and results are reproducible; a cornerstone of robust research. Attendees will participate in hands-on activities to learn about file naming conventions, file formats, and metadata. We will also briefly introduce related topics such as documentation (e.g. README files) and the preservation and storage of data over time. Towards the end of the session, there will also be time to ask questions and discuss RDM in the context of your own discipline.
Are you interested in exploring the exciting field of Digital Humanities but having trouble figuring out where to start? This session is for you. Designed for newcomers to DH, it will help you to orient yourself it this “expanded field” by understanding its history and key related concepts, as well as set you up for understanding how you might approach getting started with a digital project with or without technical expertise.
This workshop will be of interest to those who want to learn more about online privacy, our personal data, how it is collected, and its potential uses. This will be a venue for reflection and discussion, with an overview at the end of some of the tools at our disposal to help us safeguard our privacy.
The Humanities and Social Sciences Library is pleased to continue offering our Research Skills for Undergraduates workshop series online this fall. Previously referred to as Keys to Success, this 1.5 hour workshop is a great opportunity for students to learn the skills needed to find and identify scholarly research and take their papers to the next level!
Content in this workshop includes:
Getting started with your research
Finding articles, books, and other library resources for your projects
Evaluating resources
Using citation styles and management tools
This workshop is part of the SKILLS21 program by Teaching and Learning Services and counts toward students’ co-curricular record.
Sessions for Fall 2020 are listed below, all workshops are in Eastern time.
