On October 27 from 9:30-4 at Green Bean Coffee, Jo VanEvery will be in Windsor to present “Conscious Careers” — a workshop for academic-types thinking about career options outside the academy. The best news is that the GATA Network is able to sponsor eight members of the University of Windsor community to attend. The first eight to register will have the early registration fee ($97) reimbursed at the end of the workshop, courtesy of the GATA Network.

Register at the link below, save your receipt and give it to Candace (that’s me!) at the end of the workshop.

Questions? Contact gata@uwindsor.ca. Feel free to print the attached flyer and hang in your neighbourhood wherever GAs, TAs, graduate students or career-minded others congregate.

Full information about “Conscious Careers” and the link to register can be found at:

http://www.joandjulie.com/conscious-careers-live

Here’s a snippet from the site:

You want a job. A job that’s satisfying. A job that uses your knowledge and talents. A job that pays you enough to live on. A job in a place you’d be happy living. A job that also enables you to devote time to other things that are important to you.But the state of the academic labour market is probably getting you down. You despair at getting a job at all. You fear that all your education is going to be a hindrance rather than a help. You fear that you don’t have any of the skills and experience employers want.Choosing Your Career Consciously takes you from fear and despair to hope and possibility.

You’ll learn more about yourself: what you have to offer, what conditions are conducive to your best work, what your priorities really are.

You’ll learn how to find out what’s out there. There are lots of jobs that you’ve never even heard of and some of them might be just right for you.

And you’ll do all of this in the supportive environment of a live workshop.

The workshop will be held October 27, 2011 from 9:30 – 4 at Green Bean Coffee in Windsor, Ontario (not far from the Ambassador Bridge). It will be facilitated by Jo VanEvery. (There will be breaks mid-morning, mid-afternoon, and for lunch.)

If you book by October 20th, it’s $97 + HST (Canadian dollars). We’ll still accept registrations up to October 26 at $127 + HST. We need a minimum of 5 people to register and the space holds a maximum of 15.