Career Coaching for Postdoctoral Researchers – starts 2 Feb 2024

Programme overview

This bespoke career coaching programme will lead you through the spectrum of career activities and enable you to make informed career choices and decisions.

Running for six weeks, the programme will consist of three key parts:
• Identification of your current career situation, developing a deep personal understanding about what is important in a job or career and explore potential options.
• Identifying relevant opportunities, making applications with particular emphasis on tailoring applications to different net zero career opportunities.
• Preparing you for success at interview by introducing a range of tools and a safe space to apply your learning.

Network development and marketing yourself will also be included in this training programme.

Time commitment:

Weekly sessions of 1.5-2 hours along with 30 minutes each week of pre and post session preparation and follow up.  To maximise the benefits of this programme, the requirement to attend all of the sessions and complete the pre and post session work will be compulsory.
The group size will be limited to 12 participants for this programme, to enable the best outcomes for those who do attend.

In the event of oversubscription, we will inform you whether you have secured a place on the training programme.

Benefits to University employers:

• Tailored and targeted career development support to research staff (Concordat, 2019)
• Enhanced engagement of research staff in career development activities (Wellcome, 2020)
• Careers support to women researchers (Athena Swan, 2015)

Benefits to postdoctoral researchers:

Dates and times:

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