Leadership Skills

Why Leadership Skills? The ability to lead is a transferable skill that employers are looking for in almost every field. This one-day event gives students an introduction to building strong foundational leadership skills, essential for academic and professional settings in the contemporary labour market.

Students can expect to engage with peers in the following four skill-building workshops:

- Public Speaking

- Diversity & Inclusion

- Conceptualizing Leadership

- Facilitation Skills

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Job-Ready Bootcamp

Today's university students are graduating into a rapidly changing work-world. This one-day event aims to help students make sense of the labour market and translate their academic learning and experiences into the job skills employers are looking for. Understanding the contemporary landscape of work and how employers evaluate potential candidates is key to effectively preparing job search documents, delivering an impressive interview, and ultimately achieving short-term and long-term career goals.

The Job-Ready Bootcamp includes the following 4 skill-building workshops:

2020 U SPORTS Women's Hockey Championship

The UPEI Panthers are proud to welcome the best university women’s hockey teams across the nation as they are set to host the 2020 U SPORTS WOMEN’S HOCKEY CHAMPIONSHIP at MacLauchlan Arena in Charlottetown, P.E.I. March 12-15, 2020.

NOTE: All tournament passes and individual game tickets will be general admission only. 

To Purchase Tournament Passes

CLICK HERE to purchase passes online;

Job-Ready Bootcamp

Today's university students are graduating into a rapidly changing work-world. This Job-Ready Bootcamp helps students make sense of the labour market and translate their academic learning and experiences into the job skills employers are seeking. Understanding the contemporary landscape of work and how employers evaluate potential candidates is key to effectively preparing job search documents, delivering an impressive interview, and ultimately achieving short-term and long-term career goals.

The full-day program includes the following four skill-building workshops:

Gender Justice and Equality From a Sustainable Development Perspective: A Workshop with Jillian Kilfoil

In commemoration of the 30th anniversary of International Development Week, a Workshop on Promoting Gender Justice with a Social Determinants and Sustainable Development perspective will be held on Wednesday, 5 February in the Home Science Building 104 (HSB 104) at 5:00 pm.

The workshop will be led by Jillian Kilfoil, Executive Director, Women's Network of PEI.

All are welcome to attend this free event.

Coffee and snacks will be served.

Please RSVP (sroy@upei.ca) by 29 January 2020. 

Job Skills and Pathways Workshop

Understanding how career pathways connect to different sets of skills and competencies can be important in preparing yourself for a changing work world.

In this workshop, students will learn about:

- Transferable skills

- Job clusters and potential pathways

 - Gaining meaningful experience

 

Please register via Eventbrite 

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/job-skills-and-pathways-workshop-tickets-86801827603

Public Speaking Workshop

This workshop is open to UPEI students and aims to provide an opportunity to build confidence in communicating ideas, thoughts, and opinions through interactive activities and exploration of the communication process.

Please register via Eventbrite. 

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/public-speaking-workshop-tickets-86799677171