Professional Development Events
The GCC offers a range of professional development opportunities for our members and some events are open to non-members. Our events are designed around the professional development competencies of the profession of graduate-level career and professional development which includes key skills like graduate career advising, teaching, research, outcomes tracking, assessment and much more.
Looking for upcoming professional development events? Find them on the Events page.
Examples of past professional development events:
2024-25
- Carpe Careers: The Next Chapter (June 25, 2025)
- An IDP for Us: Individual Professional Development Plan for Career Development (May 2, 2025)
- My Journey In GCC: Stories of Self-Love through Personal and Professional Development as GCC Committee Members (February 13, 2025)
- Broadening Your Impact as a Graduate/Postdoc Career Leader with Carpe Careers (December 18, 2024)
- Across the Universe: Graduate Career Exploration Tools for Any Field (November 18, 2024)
- Hiring International in Career and Professional Development (October 17, 2024)
2023-24
- Lightning Talks: GCCers Present Tools & Software They Love (Mar. 25, 2024) [link to recording]
- Budget & Finance Management: A Panel Discussion (Feb. 27, 2024)
- Hands-on Webinar: Strengthening GCC Conference Proposals (Jan. 17, 2024)
- Program Evaluation for Small Teams (Nov. 1, 2023)
- Innovative Collaborations to Serve Graduate Students and Postdocs: Intra-Institutional Partnerships between POD and GCC Members (Sept. 12, 2023)
2022-23
- The 3 Minute Thesis: Coaching Graduate Students to Succinctly and Impactfully Communicate Their Research (Mar. 22, 2023)
- Hands-on Webinar - Strengthening GCC Conference Proposals (Feb. 16, 2023)
- Conference Proposal Drafting Tips: A Panel Discussion (Jan. 26, 2023) [link to recording]
- International Practitioners in the Field of Graduate Career Development (Dec. 15, 2022)
- Scaling Scrappiness: How Small Doctoral Professional Development Offices Build Access and Impact (Nov. 30, 2022)
- Reframing Professional Development from a DEI Perspective (Nov. 4, 2022)
2021-22
- Professional Development Committee Lunch & Learn: Evaluation in Higher Education: An Applied Experience (Mar. 31, 2022)
- Professional Development Committee Lunch & Learn: The Role of Measurement in Evaluation and Research: A case-study of the Toolkit for assessing IDP process outcomes (Feb. 17, 2022)
- Navigating the Grant Landscape Part 3: Funding Agency Perspectives (Oct. 5, 2021)
- Navigating the Grant Landscape Part 2: GCC Member Perspectives (Sept. 14, 2021)
- GCC Professional Development Committee Webinar: Life Cycle of a Grant (July 21, 2021)
2020-21
- Reimagining Humanities Graduate Education: Toward Institutional Change (May 25, 2021)
- PDC Webinar Microcredentials Community of Practice (May 12, 2021)
- Making Strides in Graduate-Level Career Outcomes Reporting: Surveying the Landscape of Classification and Visualization Methodologies (Apr. 12, 2021)
- PDC Committee Lunch and Learn: Engaging Graduate Student and Postdoc Alumni (Apr. 8, 2021)
- PDC Committee Lunch and Learn: Navigating Your Professional Development as GCC Members (Feb. 23, 2021)
- Professional Development Lunch & Learn: A Re-Orientation to Re-Orientations (Feb. 3, 2021)