Only Concordia students enrolled in graduate studies, at a masters, doctoral or post-doctoral level, can register through the myConcordia portal.

Currently, a non-graduate student cannot register for a workshop or course offered through gradproSKILLS.

The Graduate and Professional Skills program was developed by a working committee composed of student representatives from every faculty, and is supported by staff from the School of Graduate Studies and the Office of Research. As a student driven initiative, the GradProSkills program strives to include the voice of the student population through focus groups, feedback processes, workshop proposal submissions, ongoing consultations with on-campus providers, and by offering a number of part-time employment opportunities to graduate students.

E-mail us your workshop suggestions at gradproskills@graduatestudies.concordia.ca. To propose a detailed or already established workshop, please fill out the Workshop / Event Planning Worksheet located on our feedback page.

1. Log-on to myConcordia (myconcordia.ca)
2. Click on the MyGradProSKILLS link
3. Confirm your email contact information.
4. Select the Skill Domain for your workshop (the last two letters in the workshop number)
5. Search the list and click on your workshop to register.
6. Confirm acknowledgment of the registration policy and you are registered!

The cancellation/ withdrawal policy is simple. To avoid non-attendance fee charges, an e-mail request to withdraw from a workshop must be received 24 hours prior to the workshop. Should you find you are unable to attend, a request to withdraw must be emailed to: gradproskills@graduatestudies.concordia.ca. Efforts will be made to email a courtesy reminder notice 48-hours in advance of the workshop but failure to receive an e-mail reminder does not waive the right to apply the non-attendance fee.

NON-ATTENDANCE FEES vary from $0 to $200 depending on the nature of the workshop and will be applied to your student account should you fail to cancel your registration at least 24 hours in advance. Although some providers opt for a no-fee open registration other workshops, with limited space that are popular and/or require attendance at multiple sessions and/or have fees covered by the Graduate and Professional Skills program, will have a larger fee assigned. For those programs with multiple sessions, you must attend 70% of classes to avoid the non-attendance fee.

The non-attendance fee is in place to ensure graduate students get the opportunity to benefit from the resources offered through the Graduate and Professional Skills program. gradproSKILLS has partnered with on-campus and external providers, to offer graduate students and postdoctoral fellows access to a full range of FREE graduate and professional skills development workshops. However, all workshop providers have committed resources to offer these workshops and expect students who register to attend the workshop. That is, if you take a spot and don't attend, you have taken away the opportunity for another student to benefit from attending the workshop. Therefore, to guarantee your attendance, if you register for a workshop but do not attend, the non-attendance fee listed for the corresponding workshop will be applied to your student account.

Each workshop will vary in non-attendance fee depending on the resources allocated, length etc. of the workshop. Non-attendance fees for particular workshops can be found in your myconcordia portal upon your registration for either a workshop/course.

When workshops are full, students are offered the option to register as a waitlisted participant. This means you will be contacted, via e-mail, if a space becomes available or if another workshop is opened due to high demand. Ideally, this will happen 7 calendar days before the date of the workshop. However, a space may become available a day or two prior to the workshop date. If another workshop is opened due to a high waitlist, you will have to re-register. To add yourself to the waitlist:

1. Go to the gradproSKILLS website
2. Search for the course code
3. Once on the workshop page click the wait list button
4. Fill out the short form and send

Note: Those on the waitlist receive priority to register. The registration is live so despite the notice of availability, we cannot guarantee a spot. Thus, it is also important you check the registration availability frequently.

Your gradproSKILLS record acts as an official professional development transcript. All of the workshops you have successfully completed will appear on your paper record.Each of the workshops have been tagged with a primary skill domain. When you receive a record, the workshop will be listed under that domain. Although a Graduate and Professional Skills workshop may straddle more than one skill domain, to simplify posting the workshop to your gradproSKILLS record, each workshop has been assigned a primary target skill that ties it to a specific skill domain. The primary target skill is identified on the workshop page and categorized as such on the gradproSKILLS record.

In order to request your record go to:

1. The gradproSKILLS tab on the webpage
2. Enter information into required fields
3. Submit your request

Once your request has been submitted, an official record will be mailed to the address you have supplied. During this trial year, there will be no fee associated with your request for your record but as the program develops, gradproSKILLS reserves the right to institute one in future.