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Career Speaker Fund Application

This digital application gives Social Sciences undergraduate course instructors an easy way to apply for the Career Speaker Fund.

Applications are welcome during the following review periods each year:

  • March 16 to June 15 for Spring/Summer, Fall, Winter, and beyond
  • July 16 to October 15 for Fall, Winter, and beyond
  • November 16 to February 15 for Winter, Spring/Summer and beyond
     

About the Career Speaker Fund:

  1. This funding is intended to help cover the costs of inviting, thanking, or paying speakers brought in to help meet the strategic goal of providing students with more opportunities to explore career options (outside of academia). This has been identified as a high-priority goal by undergraduate students across the Faculty of Social Sciences.
     
    • The intention is to host guests currently in a field of work who can share their experiences with students about that line of work (not speak to theoretical, academic research about the field of work).
       
  2. This fund may be used in-course by instructors of social sciences undergraduate courses or by departmental leaders in an extra-curricular context.
     
  3. Successful Career Speaker Fund applications will clearly address at least one of the following eligibility categories:
     
    • Career option exploration
    • Career readiness
    • Transferrable skill development
       
  4. Payments, honoraria, and/or other expenditures associated with this fund will follow the Careers & Experiential Guide to Payments developed in partnership with the Social Sciences Finance team.
     
    • Current Careers & EE practice is to set the honorarium at a standard amount of $100.

 

Questions can be directed to Ruthanne Talbot on the Careers & EE team at talbotr@mcmaster.ca.

There are 11 questions in this survey.
Applicant Details
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Please enter the following applicant details:
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Which of the following best describes you?
Course Details
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Please enter the following details about the course:
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By your best estimate, what proportion of the participating students are expected to be Social Sciences students?
Program Details
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Please enter the following details about the undergraduate program in question:
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By your best estimate, what proportion of the participating students are expected to be Social Sciences students?
Experience Details
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Which category will your invited career guest speaker(s) relate to?

What career(s) and/or topic(s) will your career speaker(s) talk about? (Please provide a brief summary of approximately 2-5 sentences.)

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What do you want to pay for using the Career Speaker Fund?

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By your best approximation, how much funding in total do you think you will need? (Please provide a general breakdown.)

Optional: What additional support, financial or other, are you seeking from other supporters/stakeholders or from Careers & EE?
 
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