Plan your research career 2. pp introduction
- 1. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No 643330 Development for early-career researchers Dean Hogan
- 2. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No 643330 What is Researcher Development? • Knowledge and Intellectual Abilities • e.g. Discipline-Specific Knowledge, Problem Solving, Critical Thinking • Personal Effectiveness • e.g. Career Development, Time Management • Research Governance and Organisation • e.g. Project Planning, Research Grant Development, Research Integrity • Engagement, Influence and Impact • e.g. Teaching, Publication, Impact Awareness, Outreach, Enterprise
- 3. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No 643330 Career Development This approach to career development training is based on Career Coaching methodology and is determined by the end purpose of enabling you to make rational, informed and appropriate career- related decisions.
- 4. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No 643330 Career Development By raising self-awareness and a better understanding of yourself, you can identify what you want professionally.
- 5. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No 643330 Career Development The training should end with a personal action plan that is based on clear, sequential and complimentary goals. This allows the you to engage in a career decision-making process that assists you to find satisfying and fulfilling work- related opportunities that will motivate you to reach your potential.
- 6. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No 643330 Career Development What do we want to help you to do? • Understand yourself better • Recognise and utilise your resources • Identify what you want • Assist you to find satisfying work opportunities • Make rational, informed and appropriate decisions • Make plans based on clear goals
- 7. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No 643330 Career Development What do we want to help you to do? • Take action to get what you want • Solve problems and difficulties • Process and address issues such as coping with an end-of- contract situation and change, work stress, managing relationships at work, work-life balance • Become skillful in how to manage your career and working life into the future
- 8. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No 643330 Career Development Assumptions in this process • People have the ability and freedom to make career choices • They can be involved in a range of work roles across their lifespan • The reasons why individuals enter particular occupations/ sectors/specialties vary according to the amount of importance placed on personal preferences (e.g. interests, personality) or external influences (e.g. labour market trends, location, expectation of others)
- 9. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No 643330 Career Development Assumptions in this process • Career decision-making is not something that happens only once in a person’s life but, rather, is an ongoing process that might take place at any age. • Work is valuable, it can enhance the well-being of the individual and contributes to the success of society.
- 10. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No 643330 Career Development This professional development process is completed through exploring the four areas of: • Values • Interests • Personality Traits • Skills (VIPS)
- 11. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No 643330 Career Development Skills You will do a personal skills inventory, using your CV as a reference. Not just on the important generic and specific research skills but skills obtained from previous (or even part- time) employment. When the inventory is complete you will invariably find that you possess a lot more skills than previously thought.
- 12. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No 643330 Career Development Skills The collated & listed skills are then divided into: • Motivated Skills (skills that I enjoy using) • Development Skills (skills that I would like to develop and use more often) • Burnout Skills (skills that I would prefer not to use) • Skills that are not considered relevant or important at this time.
- 13. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No 643330 Career Development Interests • What career themes am I attracted to? • Why? • Are my interests social, enterprising, investigative, practical focus, creative, systematic? • What gets me out of bed in the morning?
- 14. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No 643330 Career Development Personality Traits • How do I like to work? • How do I work with others? • What kind of work do I enjoy? • Dislike? Why? • What working environments suit me?
- 15. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No 643330 Career Development Values • What matters most to me? • What do I value most in a role? • What do I need to be fulfilled? • What are my core values? • What type of roles agree/disagree with my values?
- 16. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No 643330 Career Development Action Plan The training outcome is a personalised Action Plan that covers the immediate, medium, and long-term future. The Action Plan can be updated every 3-5 years depending on changing professional, lifestyle, and family circumstances. Finally the researcher and trainer subject the Action Plan to a SMARTER analysis (specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, timed, exciting and relevant).
Editor's Notes
- #3: This slide is to make the researchers aware of the potential scope of required development.