Wayfinder

Navigate your Graduate Student Experience

Graduate school is more than coursework and research, it's an opportunity to develop essential skills for your academic, professional, and personal growth. Wayfinder will help you identify and strengthen key competencies such as leadership, scholarship, critical thinking, and knowledge mobilization that you will gain in grad school. Whether you’re just starting out, refining your expertise, or preparing for your next steps, we will connect you with the right resources to support your success and contributions at SFU and beyond.

How to use this tool

Graduate Studies Wayfinder provides recommendations and services you can use to tailor your SFU experience according to your personal needs and professional goals. Every new opportunity helps facilitate your competency development, making you more competitive in the job market. 

How to get started:

1. Choose a competency, something you'd like to strengthen, explore, further or gain language around communicate it as one of your strengths. Learn more about the skills you are gaining during your program.
2. Or, navigate this system through different entry points. Search and it will lead you to the skills you can then acquire.
3. Focus areas represent different aspects of the graduate student experience and can help you discover opportunities across the SFU community.
4. Make a plan, sign up, and commit to getting involved. Try something new, and reassess activities as your goals and interests evolve.

Please note, we added some service providers to specific competencies, however, they might have resources, support and experiences that may span across other competencies as well.

No two journeys will be the same. We invite you to create and explore your own!

A note about personal identity attributes:

The credential categories apply to all graduate students and we recognize that an individual student may have multiple intersectional identities. We have listed some of the most common intersectionalities here.

• Indigenous students can find additional supports on our Indigenous graduate student webpage, the Indigenous Student Centre (ISC) and the Office for Indigenous Peoples (OIP).
• International graduate students can find additional supports from our international student webpage, International Services for Students (ISS), and the Global Student Centre (GSC).
• Black students can find additional supports through the Black Student Centre (BSC) and the Black Student Writing Collective.
• 2SLGBTQIA+ graduate students can find additional supports through Out of Campus (OOC), and SFU's Health and Counselling Services.