HCTP Professional Development Workshop: Getting the Scoop on the Academic Hiring Process

January 28, 2015
Health Sciences Building room 208
10 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Abstract:  This HCTP professional development workshop is designed to enhance the transparency of the academic hiring process.  A panel consisting of recent hires and faculty who have sat on search committees will discuss issues central to this process.  Panellists will also share their observations from seeing others undertake this process and from their own experience as interviewees/interviewers.  

Topics include: the relative importance of various elements of the hiring process from application to interview follow-up; how to engage in successful negotiations; how to prepare for the interview component; and important considerations when preparing for the job talk.  

Panelists:  Gavin Andrews, Professor  & Previous Chair (Health, Aging & Society) McMaster University; Carmen Logie, Assistant Professor (Social Work) University of Toronto; Josephine Wong, Associate Professor (Nursing) Ryerson University. 

Moderator: Stella Ng (HCTP Post-Doctoral Fellow 2011-2013), Assistant Professor, Speech-Language Pathology, University of Toronto

Registration: The event is open to all students but space is limited. Please send your name and department/institution to hctp.program@utoronto.ca by January 21^st.