thank you for joining i'm Brie from the Life at Humber team and this is our We Got You live
series, a weekly series where we answer your big questions so today's guest was briefly a teen
singer in her home country, she loves to bullet journal, and she's one of Humber's fantastic
career support peers at Humber advising and career services so today we are introducing Subata! yay
hi that's amazing that you're a teen singing in your home country,
where is your home country? - So I was born and raised in Pakistan,
that teen singer thing I mean I was a teenager like a while ago
but yeah it was fun it's an interesting story to tell, yeah it really is I wish I was a teen singer
it's amazing thank you for going live with us today Subata is also part of the team that fuels
the content on humber career social media channels so we're really excited to learn a lot from you
today so with that said, midterms are approaching quickly even though they haven't come up yet we're
already starting to get a feel because of the first assignments that we've handed in throughout
the semester so we're getting a feel of what the workload is to expect throughout the semester,
so it's important that we stay proactive in knowing what kind of supports are available to us
so if a student needs extra support in our academics who can students turn to?
I'm so glad that you brought that up Brie because I'm a student myself and I think that right
now is the right time like we're getting into midterms I think right now is the right time to
start being proactive about this stuff and I again I'm saying this as a student I think that Humber
has been doing a pretty good job of making sure that the community stays alive, even though we're
not on campus anymore and I'm so grateful for that as a student for academic resources so let me talk
about the resources we offer at the career center you can go onto the careers.humber.ca website
there's an entire webpage dedicated solely to student success resources
and there's a bunch of things over there, for example you have planners daily weekly monthly um
term planners you have your assignment breakdown uh planner which i personally really like because
it breaks down your assignment into specific components and that way you can tackle them one at
a time and that way it's a little less stressful you also have goal planners so what are your
academic and career goals and strengths assessment so what are your strengths and weaknesses so what
do you need to work on so it's a lot of great stuff there's time management stuff on there. I
would recommend you guys start from there because you know it's free it's on your website it's great
that's amazing it sounds like a really good way to understand how we learn and
how best to plan that works for each person individually, so I'm really glad that you have
these services that help students really figure these things out for themselves but if students
want to talk one-on-one with an advisor who can they connect it with and how can they do that?
yeah, absolutely the career center has career and student success advisors their work is
two-pronged so they will help you with your academic goals as well as your career goals
there's a specific advisor for depending on what campus and what faculty your program is affiliated
with there's a specific advisor for you which is really great and for academic success questions
they can assist you with things like assessing whether a program is right for you or not, or what
services on campus can help you be more successful so, for example, Peer Assisted Learning Support
and so on are you on track based on your academic progress report. If you're struggling in your
classes what can you do for example to get better grades or you know they can help you plan out
your schedule or balance your academics especially with learning online it can be a little stressful
also you can they can help you plan out your long-term goals so for example if you need
to take another program in order to advance your career goals so for example I'm in the paralegal
grad start program and I notice that there's someone here is also in paralegal
yeah but yeah i actually before the fall term started I was around in the summer
so I booked an appointment with my CSSA and and we had a really great chat on what my long-term goals
should be and how I should be planning those things out so as a paralegal for example you
have to take licensing exams and stuff so we had a really great chat about that you
know and now I'm all relaxed and ready to go also for the career aspect of what CSSA's do
they will help you kind of plan your long-term career goals you know are you on the right track
with with your academic program, is that program going to help you achieve your career goals
they can also help you with setting career goals keeping them on track
with job search skills so things like how can you find the right job for yourself um and as well as
advanced career skills so me as a career support peer I help people build resumes cover letters and
so on and but but that's like my work is a little general if you need someone really specific and
advanced level to help you out with that stuff a student success advisor would be the person
to go to amazing it really sounds like you have some great value in having people help plan what
they may want to do because people can be very uncertain about like how to progress right now
especially during a pandemic even just having like a little bit of uncertainty about even if it's the
right program for them these could be really like stressful questions so it's amazing that you have
these supports online that people can talk to and they they feel like you know they're not alone
going through all of this stuff, so it's we also have international students who reside outside
of the province or even outside of the country are these services available to them as well?
yes and that's the part that I was most excited about when we off started offering
our services virtually is that international students now have more access to our services
I was working at the career center all summer and we've been working with international students
throughout so yeah if you guys are international if you're not in Ontario feel free to reach out
to us everything is virtual and we're here for you. That's amazing are these services free?
you know yes again, it's important for students to know that! yeah that's so true me being a
student myself any free services I get I will take especially their if they're services
that are helping me invest in my future which is definitely the case with these ones so yeah guys
for sure all our services are free you can access them from you know your laptop at home you don't
even have to go anywhere definitely avail them if you can amazing so what can students expect
during their virtual appointment right um so in order to book a virtual appointment uh you would
need to go to the careers.humber.ca website like I mentioned before select your advisor based on
what faculty and what campus your program is affiliated with each advisor has their own booking
schedule um so there's two ways that you can do that you can either book an appointment with your
specific advisor in advance based on their booking availability on their schedule if you have a bit
of a more urgent concern we also offer drop-in advising services during like monday to friday
nine to four usually is the time and the way to do that would be you would go onto careers.humber.ca
and uh we have a live chat over there that people like real people moderate them I'm one of those
people on occasion you can just mention your query there you can say Hi I need to see a drop-in
advisor and we will book you uh you know the same day usually it's in within half an hour um so yeah
you can always go there um and uh I'm sorry you asked about you know what what you can expect in
your virtual appointment yeah so are these held on say Zoom or Microsoft Teams how do they yes
how does the process work yeah for sure uh so the appointments are held in Microsoft Teams the
great thing about Teams is that you do not need to download any software so you will receive a
meeting invite link once we set up an appointment with you regardless of whether it's drop-in or if
it's the delayed one and all you would need to do is at the time of the meeting just click on
the link and you'll you can meet with the advisor virtually in another browser window
amazing yes it sounds really straightforward and easy for students yeah and i'm sure that you need
help um the service the career services team they will be able to help you um so outside of
this type of service what else should students know about um advising and career services
so um i mean there's a few ways that for example that you can reach out to us
um there you have student success advisors and then you have career support peers like myself
there are also a lot of career based resources that are also available on the website aside
from the student success resources I mentioned so do take a look go on to careers.humber.ca
you'll find all the information over there um with regards to whether or not to you know how
you can reach out to us we have the live chat that i mentioned before that's on our website
we also have our ig so humber career that you know we just connected with today we also Humber
career is also on Twitter as well as on Linkedin we post our updates there all the time we're very
active in responding to people so absolutely do not hesitate to reach out amazing thank you so
much for going live with us today I just want to see through the comments see what people have said
it's great we see some paralegal program people here too this person they said yes here ha ha
amazing and we're so happy to see that we're so happy that we can answer your questions directly
and that you feel more connected that way but thank you so much for tuning in to the live and
Subata do you have any extra additional comments or words of wisdom for folks?
okay like I mentioned I'm also a student for I was watching a video recently that taught
me a lot about motivation so you know how we think that motivation is something that's just
gonna come to me and then all of a sudden I'm gonna be I'm gonna want to sit down and study
that's not gonna happen what you need to do is just kind of force yourself to take that first
step force yourself to read that one paragraph that one page and once you make that little
accomplishment that's going to give you the motivation to continue because you're going
to be like oh look I did this thing I can do the next thing and you know before you know it you're
gonna be you know doing your readings doing your assignment work so you have to force yourself to
take the first step and this is something that I that helped me a lot I hope it helps you guys
as well um but yeah that would be my tip as a you know from a student to other students
for sure um definitely breaking things up in small chunks has helped me and knowing or even
like time blocking has been another thing that really helped me right because I want to know
exactly you know when i should be working and when I can actually give myself time to relax
and it's really important to have that balance oh yeah yeah relaxation is so important and that's
why I also like the assignment breakdown resource but yeah for sure you guys don't stress and don't
hesitate to reach out to all of us we're all here for you all these services are for
you you know we made them keeping you in mind so yeah um you know I think we're starting to
get questions for you yeah we are so there's one up here um this person has a question about work
permits if you could answer or if you can maybe specify what question you have about work permits
it's totally fine if you want to direct message us as well we can also answer your question there
yeah we also have another question here um Subata you've mentioned you've taken
advantage of Humber services what has been the most helpful service resource you've accessed
so uh my favorite resource as I mentioned is the assignment breakdown tool I love that tool
so much because I have and people in the paralegal program would know we have a lot of you know group
assignments things like mock trials and stuff that go on over weeks so it's really helpful
for breaking down your assignments I also use the weekly planner a lot um I and as I mentioned
I have a you know pretty close relationship with my student success advisor like I talked to her a
few times she's given me great tips regarding you know how to network how to find jobs how to look
for placement and so on so yeah it's been it's it's I really do recommend using these resources
as well as the resume cover letter etc resources they have helped me personally in in you know for
like obtaining internships and placements and jobs and stuff so yeah I highly recommend them yeah and
they're free so take advantage of them you like you might as well these these resources are so
helpful to you yeah um so but thank you so much for going into depth with all of the things that
students can can reach out to and use to help them in their career planning and again if folks have
any extra questions or ideas about topics that you would like to have covered oh we do
have another question, it was from the person before actually more than that Iwant to know
about the job market being an international student it's hard for me to get a placement
yeah that's totally understandable and we get questions like that a lot, job resources you can
take a look at careers.humber.ca we have a whole slew of career resources on there your question
is quite specific regarding work permits and everything but we do handle questions like that we
have worked with that before I would recommend you see your student success advisor so based on your
faculty and your campus uh whatever your program is affiliated with you can find your advisor on
our website careers.humber.ca and we can help you from there if you have any confusion on the
website you can always the website has a live chat and we can assist you from there in real time okay
amazing thank you so much for that we are going to end off the live right here
so thank you so much for tuning in this was a great one! I hope everyone stays safe out
there and we will see you in the next one all right bye everybody Thank you for coming! Bye!