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Boosting postdoc career development
Welcome!
This section is aimed at those delivering postdoc career development. Whether you’re having to convince senior colleagues to implement Prosper, engage external stakeholders or deliver directly to postdocs this section is for you.
In this section you'll find practical guides and resources to help you select how you'll implement Prosper, use specific resources and engage stakeholders, if you wish.
Adapt and deliver Prosper
Find out how you could customise Prosper to fit your institutional needs
A practical guide to setting up career coaching for your Prosper offering
Determine how you'll let people know about your Prosper offering
Information on how to commission workshop suppliers
Start a cohort
Determine how you'll select, advertise and ultimately recruit your cohort
Uncover the practical and logistical aspects of running a cohort
Discover practical suggestions to get your cohort off to a good start
Maintain engagement
Discover how to start, maintain engagement and motivate a cohort
Enhance your postdocs career development via social sessions
Learn how you can build peer support into your Prosper career development
Engage stakeholders
Identify how you can get managers of researchers engaged in Prosper
If you wish to reach out to employers we've created this practical guide
Ending a cohort
Find out how you can measure the impact of your Prosper offering
Create advocacy resources to encourage uptake at your institution
Draw your cohort to a close and keep the relationship going
Use Prosper's resources
Determine how you can highlight Prosper's resources to postdocs
Ascertain how to use the career clusters with your postdocs
Use the self-coaching resources to enhance your career development offering
See how to facilitate specific sessions using the guides
Other how-to's…
Find out how we ran a focus group in this practical guide
A practical guide to running a panel session for a postdoc audience
Uncover our top tips for working with postdocs on their career development
Uncover how you can develop your own skills and competencies
A guide to working with PIs to support their postdocs career development
Find our tips on how to deliver different session formats
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