A fresh way to deliver postdoc career development...
With Prosper you can:
- Use Prosper as a flexible, modular and free career development model
- Enhance your postdoc development offering
- Cater for career development of postdocs from all disciplines
- Enhance research culture at your institution
- Be part of the living resources and participate in the community of practice
Find out what Prosper offers and how it can benefit your existing postdoc development activity
Access practical guides and resources to deliver career development to your postdocs
Share your experiences, ask questions and make Prosper even better
60% of our first cohort postdocs applied for jobs within and beyond academia.
33% solely applied for positions beyond academia.
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Discover what is Prosper, how it’s different to other career development offerings and what you’ll get out of using it…
A handy guide to the different areas and functions of the portal, and what they contain.…
A resource on possible ways to deliver Prosper to help shape your thinking as you plan how you’ll use Prosper at your institution.…
An easy to follow step-by-step instructions, and example communication templates, that will help you to select and commission external suppliers to meet your…
A list of factors to consider when recruiting and finding willing participants to engage in your Prosper cohort.…
Here we offer practical suggestions on how you can get your cohort off to a good start and keep that momentum going.…
A piece on what we’ve done to engage employers with signposts to employer-informed resources and suggestions on how you might use these in…
A one-stop-shop covering all the different types of evaluation we’ve found useful.…
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Choose your mode of delivery
- Plan communications
- Organise career coaching
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Commission workshop suppliers
- How to recruit a cohort
- How to onboard a cohort
- How to run a cohort - logistics and practical considerations
- How to start, maintain and motivate a cohort
- How to run a buddy scheme
- How to run social sessions
- Get buy-in from PIs and managers of researchers
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Engage employers
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Evaluate your programme
- Collect testimonials and ambassadors
- End a cohort
- How to promote and signpost resources to postdocs
- How to use the career clusters
- How to use the self-coaching resources
- How to facilitate career development workshops using the session guides
- How to run a focus group
- How to run a panel session
- How to work with postdocs
- How to develop my own skills and competencies
- How to work with PIs and managers of researchers
- How to facilitate a session
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