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Career Exploration Series with Temitayo Urubusi, PFP

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This month we had Temitayo Urubusi, PFP, Senior Financial Advisor at CIBC, speak with us in the first virtual iteration of our Career Exploration Series. During this presentation, Temitayo shared how she leveraged her skills in chemical engineering to transition into the finance sector. 

Temitayo graduated with her chemical engineering degree at Obafemi Awolowo University. After her studies, she decided to establish her career in Canada where she enrolled in the Engineering Bridging program at Ryerson University and landed her first role with the Ontario Ministry of Environment as an engineering intern. Living in a new country, Temitayo was curious about managing her personal finances. She borrowed books from the library and read everything she could about finance. When she realized she wanted a career that had more interaction with people in her day to day, she gravitated toward this interest, leading her to learn about the Canadian Securities Institute (CSI). From here, Temitayo completed the self-study Investment Funds in Canada course offered by the CSI, allowing her to make the career switch into the finance sector.

In her role today with the CIBC Imperial Service, she helps over 200 families with their financial planning. No two days are the same, so she begins each day by assessing her appointments and preparing for the meetings she has scheduled for the day. Similar to how researchers stay on top of the literature, she stays on top of the news on the economy to foresee the financial impacts that her clients may be facing. Through working with her clients over the years, Temitayo has grown to know them on a deeper level including but not limited to celebrating their milestones, seeing them begin a new chapter in their life, and helping them navigate through hardships. The biggest change she noticed working as a financial advisor is the high level of social interaction.

Temitayo touched on transferable skills she leveraged from her chemical engineering background into her role as a Senior Financial Advisor. Instead of developing processes for industrial systems, she is applying her skillset towards people. Temitayo highlighted the top skills gained from her chemical engineering education that she uses everyday in her current role:

  • Problem-solving skills
  • Communication skills
  • Management skills
  • Organizational skills
  • Analytical skills
  • Mathematical skills
  • Team management skills

If you are interested in a career working for the finance sector, Temitayo recommends taking a self-study courses provided by the Canadian Securities Institute (CSI). With the self-study nature of these certifications, one can begin the transition process while in their current role. Regardless of what career sector you choose, Temitayo’s advice is to find what you are passionate about or enjoy, and work will not feel like a chore.

We would like to thank Temitayo Urubusi, PFP for volunteering her time to help the CIC Toronto community! With the success of this event, we plan to continue the Career Exploration Series so stay tuned!

A Day in the Life of a Chemist – Video/Photo Experiment Draw

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National Chemistry Week has begun, to celebrate we’d like you to post a photo or video to your Twitter or Instagram of your safe-for-home chemistry activity or research experiments in the lab. As long as there is chemistry involved from baking to growing crystals in the lab, we are excited to see how you stay curious!

Draw rules:

By participating, you give us consent to announce your name and social media account as a winner on our website and social media. Participants must meet the following requirements to be entered into the draw:

  • Reside in Canada
  • Be age 18 and above
  • Use both hashtags #NCW and #CICTOChemWeek in their post/tweet
  • Follow us on Twitter (@CICToronto) or Instagram (@cic_toronto)

Give our post/tweet a like, comment/reply, or a retweet for additional entries.

Prize: $25 VISA gift card

The random draw will end on Monday, October 26 at 11:59 PM. Winners will be announced sometime next week.

An Update from CIC Toronto

With growing concerns surrounding COVID19, we have decided to postpone our upcoming CIC Café and CIC Career Fair until further notice. All registrants will be refunded fully and notified once the events are re-scheduled. We will continue to monitor developments as they arise to prioritize the health and safety of our members and community. Please feel free to reach out with any questions you may have. Thank you for your understanding.
 
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CIC Career Exploration Series: Clinical Chemistry

CIC Career Exploration Series: Clinical Chemistry
CIC Career Exploration Series: Clinical Chemistry
CIC Career Exploration Series: Clinical Chemistry

On February 25 2020, CIC Toronto hosted this Career Exploration  Series where the focus was on clinical chemistry. The event speaker was Dr. Amir Babalhavaeji, who completed his PhD in biological chemistry and is currently a second-year fellow in the clinical biochemistry program at the University of Toronto. Amir discussed various roles in the area of clinical chemistry, including clinical technologist and clinical scientist, as well as the training processes involved with these careers. He then explored day-to-day roles of a clinical scientist, which involves quality oversight in the clinical chemistry lab, acting as a liaison between clinicians and technologists, as well as additional roles as an educator and a researcher. Attendees learned about the process by which a new diagnostic test or biomarker is validated and put into practice. Amir also shared from his personal experiences as a trainee in how he addressed various requests or pages sent by clinicians as well as identifying inaccurate sodium measurement results for a commonly used blood test in cases of hypernatremia.

CIC Career Talk 2020

The Chemical Institute of Canada Toronto Section (CICTor) is hosting a Career Talk which will feature informal talks presented by graduates in the chemical field who are currently working in non-traditional careers in a variety of fields.

Join us for the Career Exploration Series talk on Clinical Chemistry, presented by Dr. Amir Babalhavaeji!

This talk will provide an introduction into the role of a clinical chemist and an explanation of the training process to become a clinical chemistry from the perspective of a current trainee fellow. The talk will be followed by a Q&A and networking period. Light refreshment will be served.

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/cic-career-talk-tickets-92817035251

A Talk on the Pharmaceutical Industry and the Roles that Chemists Play

The CIC Toronto Section held a talk on process chemistry and the available chemistry positions in the pharmaceutical industry on October 23rd ,2019. At this event, members and non-members enjoyed a nice introduction to process chemistry, a field that is neglected in academic settings. A brief introduction of the major processes of launching a drug were discussed and where process chemistry is so important. The roles that chemists play in each of the stages of drug development were also discussed, along with the types of jobs that graduate students can achieve. There was a good focus on the idea that these jobs were very unique from one another and that skills off the bench were just as important as skills on the bench.

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