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Start your career development journey and look at the skills, values and interests you possess with self-assessment tools and exercises to explore your identity and skill set
Take your development to the next stage with career stories from former postdocs, and explore how to find out more about careers through informational interviews and networking
Adding to all you’ve discovered so far, learn how to translate your skills for any career, the steps to take to be and feel prepared for your next career move and embrace change
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- Career audit
- Career timelines: chart your career
- Influences on career opinion
- Personality traits
- Workplace strengths and interests
- Define your values
- Skills audit
- Mining skills example: Advance HE Award
- Personal job satisfaction
- Decision making: career choices
- Overcoming limiting beliefs
- Pivoting: how to handle identity crisis
- Handling self-sabotage
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Pivoter profiles
- Crafting a new career identity
- Building self-confidence
- Tools for building self-awareness
- The Big Five: personality assessment
- Myers Briggs Type Indicator: personality sssessment
- myIDP and Imagine PhD
- SkillScan: skills assessment
- VIA Strengths: character strengths
- Career anchors: values and drivers assessment
- Strengths Profile: personality assessment
- Journaling to increase self-awareness
- Postdoc professional identity-making
- Career clusters
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Former postdoc case studies
- Dr Al Mathers
- Dr Bryony Parsons
- Dr Carlos Peña-Monferrer
- Dr Chris Humphrey
- Dr Christina Chan
- Dr Cristina Melero
- Dr David Amienyo
- Dr Dotun Olowoporoku
- Dr Edward Latter
- Dr Geoffrey Belknap
- Dr Georgina Key
- Dr Hannah Roberts
- Dr John Ankers
- Dr John Miles
- Dr Kate Whelan
- Dr Lan Hoang
- Dr Laura-Jayne Gardiner
- Dr Matt Crooks
- Dr Meera Vijayaraghavan
- Dr Shona Jones
- Former postdoc panel session June 2021
- Former postdoc panel session May 2024
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Prosper postdoc case studies
- Dr Alejandra Zarate-Potes
- Dr Alex James
- Dr Ali Ehsan
- Dr Alzbeta Chabronova
- Dr Anthony Evans
- Dr Ashley Gluchowski
- Dr Briony Banks
- Dr Caroline Redhead
- Dr Catherine Hayer
- Dr Christina Picken
- Dr David Ashmore
- Dr Devon Crouch
- Dr Dominic Chiwenga
- Dr Efthymios Gavriil
- Dr Frances Sherratt
- Dr Marcos del Cueto
- Dr Marieke van der Zande
- Dr Paras Naik
- Dr Priyanka Raina
- Dr Revathy Krishnamurthi
- Dr Rebecca Jensen
- Dr Rosa Morra
- Dr Shunqi Zhang
- Dr Sharon Lin
- Zaihao Tian
- Dr Zohra Butt
- Job simulators
- Academia
- Policy
- Communication
- Project management
- Leadership
- Commercial awareness
- Creativity
- Growth mindset
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Employer insights
- Employer Insight session: Exploring careers at the intersection of academia and industry - June 2025
- Employer Insight session: Inizio Medical - May 2025
- Employer Insight session: Environment Agency - April 2025
- Demystifying recruitment Q&A - December 2024
- Employer panel - November 2022
- Employer panel - May 2022
- Employer panel - September 2021
- Mapping your warm network
- Expanding your knowledge of organisations
- Searching job boards by skills
- The power of networking
- Barriers to networking
- Conducting informational interviews
- Using library resources to enhance your commercial awareness
- Where and how to search for opportunities
- Personal branding
- Using your network
- How to set up your own business
- How to find support for your business
- Freelancing and consultancy
- University spin outs
- Speculative applications
- Cover letters
- Application forms and supporting statements
- CV showcasing your skills
- CV different types
- Developing a skills-based CV
- Interview
- Video interviews
- Interview questions
- Assessment centres (including virtual)
- Psychometric tests
- Common pitfalls of job applications
- Navigating job offer negotiations
- Having successful career conversations
- Making the most of your current role
- Career coaching
- Handling the first few weeks
- Keeping up momentum
- Managing failure
- Revisiting your identity
- Ongoing learning and development
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