Career Development Webinars
APA's Career Center offers planners a variety of webinars and workshops with practical tips on job search, career paths, and professional development issues for new and seasoned planners alike.
Upcoming Webinars
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Previous Webinars
Writing a Better RFP: Get the Team – and the Results Your Community Wants
Finding the right consultant can be tricky, but a well-written RFP makes the task easier. Participants will learn best practices for developing RFPs, from defining the scope and interviewing firms to executing the contract and managing the project, all to better prepare your community for your next big planning initiative.
Getting Hired: Hear from a Hiring Manager
Gain insight into the process and gain confidence with tips on how best to prepare for a job interview. Learn tips on how to prepare for common interview questions. The panelists provide insights from their experience in a judgment-free zone.
Hosted by APA Women and Planning Division
It's Not Personal: Self-Care Tips to Avoid Burnout, Conflict, and Contentious Community Meetings
Planners are often required to handle highly emotional situations and face public criticism, which can cause a great deal of stress and lead to burnout. Self-care is therefore vital to a successful and fulfilling career in planning, yet it is not typically part of our professional education and training. This session works to remedy that by exploring the need to make self-care a core competency in the planning profession and how we can get started.
CM | 1.0
Panelist:
Heather Seyfarth, AICP
'SRC Presents' Webinar Series
This series explores the overlap between urban planning and its adjacent professions. Hosted by APA's Student Representative Council, these webinars feature change-makers in architecture, civil engineering, environmental studies, and political science to discuss how they apply planning principles in their fields, and where they believe future opportunities lie.
Previous 'SRC Presents' Webinars
Intersections: Civil Engineering and Planning
The session explores the education, skills, experiences, and current context of civil engineering and planning, as well as ethics, regulations, finances, and critical decision points for working together effectively.
Intersections: Architecture and Planning
This session delves into the critical decision drivers in each field and how to effectively collaborate. Topics include advice for emerging professionals on working in the field, education, skills, ethics, and the current context of architecture and planning.
Intersections: Environmental Science
The session explores the history, education, skills, and experiences, of planners working in environmental justice and justice-centered climate solutions. Discussion on how communities are finding ways to align environmental justice and planning with a look at the Green Recovery Agenda for the city of Chicago.
Resources
Folded Map Project (Tonika Johnson)
Portland Climate Plan: Climate Action through Equity
Carbon Free Boston: Social Equity Report
Revolutionary Power: An Activist's Guide to the Energy Transition, Shalanda Baker
National Environmental Justice Advisory Council
An Urban Planner's Advice for Making Equity Your Focus, Carlton Eley, MSURP
Race and Social Equity: A Nervous Area of Government, Susan T Gooden
Career Webinars in Passport
Jumpstart Your Equity Work Partnering with School Planners
This course aims to link school planning with the work of local government planners by providing greater insight, tools, and techniques into collaborating on school and traditional planning.
CM | 1.5
CM | 1.0 | Equity
Presented in partnership with APA's Public Schools Interest Group (PSIG)
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Planning Supervisor's Playbook Series, Part 1 and 2
The follow-up to the popular Planning Supervisors' Playbook Series, Part 1, Part 2 includes 3 interactive live sessions that go deeper into key managerial skills. Starting with the first session on honing communication skills in a telecommuting and hybrid world. In the second session examine biases to create a more inclusive workplace and in the final session consider new approaches to motivation and performance evaluations. The topics are tailored to those currently in supervisory positions or established in the profession of planning. CM | 4.5
Member Price: $90.00 per learner
Nonmember: $180.00 per learner