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dnasoftware inc.
Ellipsis Biotherapeutics Inc
The Pathway to GPD: the Why and How
Success After Graduate School
Ontario Students
Concepts to think about…
How do you lead meaningful engagement throughout undergrad and beyond to direct your own career path?
Reflection: IDP
The Heart of GPD
Meaningful Engagement: Three ToolsMeaning and Design
Growth Mindset TheoryThe Golden Circle
http://myidp.sciencecareers.org/
https://medium.com/stem-and-culture-chronicle/building-your-individual-development-plan-idp-a-guide-for-undergraduate-students-f14feca9111c
Reflection: IDPMajor Map
http://careers.queensu.ca/sites/webpublish.queensu.ca.cswww/files/files/Major%20Maps/Web/Biochemistry%20-%20web.pdf
Reflection: IDP
The Heart of GPD
Meaningful Engagement: Three ToolsMeaning and Design
Growth Mindset TheoryThe Golden Circle
The Four Pillars of Meaning
Belonging
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Os3vvhEKjkE
CuriosityAwareness: it’s a process
Radical collaborationReframing
Try stuff: PrototypingThree Odyssey Plans
Dysfunctional belief: Your degree determines your career.Reframe: Three-quarters of all college grads don’t end up working in a career related to their majors.
Dysfunctional belief: If you are successful, you will be happy.Reframe: True happiness comes from designing a life that works for you.
Failure Reframe Exercise:
“Failure is the raw material for success and the failure reframe is a process of converting that raw material into real growth.”
1. Log your failure.2. Categorize failures.3. Identify growth insights.
Reflection: IDP
The Heart of GPD
Meaningful Engagement: Three ToolsMeaning and Design
Growth Mindset TheoryThe Golden Circle
Growth Mindset TheoryDr. Carol Dweck, Stanford
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aItZKnWL_R4
The Golden Circle – Simon SinekThe Power of Why
Apply to science experiments, networking, cover letters, storytelling, outreach, 3MT.
Reflection: IDP
The Heart of GPD
Meaningful Engagement: Three ToolsMeaning and Design
Growth Mindset TheoryThe Golden Circle
Strategic Marketing
CV vs Resume
Effective Resumes Tell Stories
Challenge or Context
Action
Results
As a first-ever TED talk, I researched social organizations on campus, publications on NPOs, organized a working group, implemented their feedback, and practiced my talk with them several times. I gave the talk and with follow-up conversations, learned that several students had started their own groups revolving around social innovation and non-profit ideas.
Motivate
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To engage youth in their own advocacy, developed and presented TED U of Talk on developing federal policies utilizing a relatable personal story resulting in 5 student groups to be inspired to start own advocacy programs
Context/Challenge
Results
Action
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Telling the Story
What have you done that is unique/special?
What skill do you want to highlight?
What are the concrete actions you took to achieve the outcome?
What was your impact?
Check C-A-R linkage.
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Who Would You Hire?
Experience in PCR, high through-put assays, flow cytometry, tissue culture, western blots
Publication experience
Student Council President overseeing student social events and fundraising activities
Proficient in Microsoft Office, Excel, Powerpoint
Fluent in English and French
Led the genomic screening of a novel 3Kb candidate gene analysis with 10 DNA templates, 100 primer designs, and processing of 3000 PCR reactions per day over 9 months resulting in the elucidation of the causative mutation and a publication.
Spearheaded interdepartmental collaboration with 8 other student councils to host first-ever undergrad mentorship program resulting in 56 students finding professional mentorsover 3 years.
Led fundraising activities with 5 other colleagues to increase donations by 22% from previous student council.
CAR Exercise
The Cover Letter
Action Plans During Undergrad
Action Plans During Undergrad
How would you use these concepts for obtaining positions in
Summer lab experience?
Graduate school?
An industry job or internship?
Resources
• MyIDP – Science Careers
• Provincial Internship Funding (OCE)
• Your Career Centre
• Biotalent Petridish (SWILP)
• Life Science Societies (LSO)
• Innovative Medicines Canada
• Incubators (MaRS)
People: the other WWW
Thank-you for your participation and feedback!
