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Postdocs

• Postdocs
  • Reflect
    • Career audit
    • Career timelines: chart your career
    • Influences on career opinion
    • Personality traits
    • Workplace strengths and interests
    • Define your values
    • Mining skills example: Advance HE Award
    • Skills audit
    • Personal job satisfaction
    • Decision making: career choices
    • Overcoming limiting beliefs
    • Pivoting: how to handle identity crisis
    • Handling self-sabotage
    • Pivoter profiles
      • Pivoter profile: Andrew
      • Pivoter profile: Anjali
      • Pivoter profile: Connor
      • Pivoter profile: Stefania
      • Pivoter profile: Sarah
    • 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
  • Explore
    • Career clusters
      • Advanced Manufacturing and Materials
      • Creative and Cultural Industries
      • Environment and Energy
      • Financial, Business and Professional Services
      • Food and Agriculture
      • Government and Non-Profit
      • Health and Care
      • Higher Education and Publishing
      • ICT and Digital Technology
      • Life Sciences and Pharmaceuticals
      • Start-ups and Entrepreneurship
      • Transport Systems
      • Written Interviews
        • Working at The Reader
        • Working at Tate
        • Working at National Museums Liverpool
        • Working at Melhor Consulting
        • Working at Notch Communications
        • Working at IBM
        • Working at Cancer Research UK
        • Working at Stream Bio
        • Working at IPG Health Medical Communications
        • Working at Pierre Fabre Ltd.
        • Working at Code-Switch Consultants
        • Working at the DWP
        • Working at Xencor Inc.
        • Working at Advance HE
        • Working at Puraffinity
        • Working at Puraffinity 2
    • 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
    • Prosper postdoc case studies
      • Dr Alejandra Zarate-Potes
      • Dr Alex James
      • Dr Ali Ehsan
      • 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 Rosa Morra
      • Dr Zohra Butt
    • Job simulators
    • Academia
    • Policy
    • Communication
    • Project management
    • Leadership
    • Commercial awareness
    • Creativity
    • Growth mindset
    • 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
  • Act
    • 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
    • Handling the first few weeks
    • Keeping up momentum
    • Managing failure
    • Revisiting your identity
    • Ongoing learning and development
  • Career Development Navigator
  • Learning and Development
    • Time management
    • Skills identification
    • Networking
    • Career decision making
    • Growing your self-awareness and career identity
    • Communication skills
    • Building your confidence
    • Collaboration, leadership and influence
    • Idea generation
    • Expand your employment sector knowledge
    • Starting a business and entrepreneurship
    • Job applications - creating a better CV
    • Job applications - cover letters, application forms and interviews
  • Coaching Ourselves
    • Coaching: learning through reflective practice 
    • Coaching: leaving on a positive note 
    • Coaching: tools for positive change 
    • Coaching: growth mindset
    • Coaching: who am I and why do I work?
    • Coaching: making time for career development 
    • Coaching: developing career goals that will propel you forwards 
    • Coaching: embracing personal responsibility for success
    • Coaching: finding your true north – a journey of purpose
    • Coaching: discovering and developing your personal strengths
    • Coaching: developing coaching skills
    • Coaching: building professional confidence career success 

Managers of Researches

• Managers of Researchers
  • Why use Prosper
  • How to use Prosper
  • Boosting postdoc career development
    • Career conversations
    • Job applications and recruitment processes
    • Careers beyond academia
    • Careers within academia
    • Developing postdoc skills
    • Postdoc networking
    • Barriers to engagement
    • Timelines
    • Creating inclusive environments
    • Supporting international postdocs
    • Supporting staff wellbeing
    • Developing working relationships
    • Managing your first postdoc
    • Funding and recruitment
    • Induction
    • Managing postdocs
    • Annual reviews
    • Prioritisation and productivity
    • Project end and outcomes
    • Real-life examples
      • Professor Alberto Bardelli
      • Professor Bhavik Anil Patel
      • Professor Carsten Welsch
      • Professor Cecilia Wong
      • Professor Christopher Jackson
      • Dr Cyrill Bussy
      • Dr Elizabete Carmo-Silva
      • Professor Hilary Pilkington
      • Professor Hilary Ranson
      • Dr Igor Chernyavsky
      • Dr Maria Sharmina
      • Professor Mrinal Dasgupta
      • Dr Patricia Murrieta-Flores
      • Professor Peter Wade
      • Professor Rachel Williams
      • Dr Raechelle D'Sa
      • Dr Ruth Nugent
      • Professor Sally Shuttleworth
      • Professor Simon Maskell
      • Dr Siobhan McAndrew
      • Professor Tariq Modood
      • Dr Tom Hasell
      • Taking parental leave as a PI
      • Taking parental leave as a postdoc
      • Championing equality, diversity and inclusion as a research leader
  • The PI Network
    • A coaching approach to career conversations
    • A template for holding a career conversation
    • Building intercultural competence
    • Careers beyond academia guide
    • Creating a working environment that lets you and your postdoc grow: skills for PIs and postdocs
    • Developing resilience
    • Developing your ECRs using the Research Canvas
    • How lab handbooks can help shape research culture in your team
    • Career development: what do postdocs want and do PIs provide it?
    • Improve your wellbeing with Positive Intelligence
    • Leadership and management for the first time PI
    • Lessons learned from Covid and postdoc career development in the post-Covid era
    • Managing researchers during Covid-19
    • Mutual benefits of unlocking postdoc career potential
    • Portal tour - a quick guide for PIs
    • Productivity and professional development
    • Simple steps for supporting postdoc career development
    • Strategic academic leadership
    • Supporting researchers to engage in career development and decision making
    • The DIY guide to getting the best out of yourself and your researchers
    • The valued manager? The PI-postdoc relationship (featuring UKRI)
    • Thriving together: creating more inclusive research communities through the research management relationship
    • Welcome to the panic room – managing challenging scenarios

Institutions

• Institutions
  • Why Prosper
    • Benefits
    • Overview
    • Prosper in context
  • Boosting the career development of postdocs with Prosper
    • Choose your mode of delivery
      • How Prosper ran its two pilot cohorts
    • Comms toolkit
      • Testimonials
      • Prosper branding
    • Organise career coaching
    • Commission workshop suppliers
      • Suppliers list
    • 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 social sessions
    • How to run a buddy scheme
    • Get buy-in from PIs and managers of researchers
    • Evaluate your programme
      • How Prosper did evaluation
    • Engage employers
      • Employer engagement ideas and resources
      • Communicating with employers
      • Developing your network of employer partners
      • Making the case for employer engagement
    • Collect testimonials and ambassadors
    • How to promote and signpost resources to postdocs
    • End a cohort
    • 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 work with postdocs
    • How to develop my own skills and competencies
    • How to run a panel session
    • How to work with PIs and managers of researchers
    • How to facilitate a session
  • Community of practice
    • Community of practice annual event
  • The Prosper Exchange