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Mining skills example: Advance HE Award
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Overcoming limiting beliefs
Pivoting: how to handle identity crisis
Handling self-sabotage
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
Former postdoc case studies
Prosper postdoc case studies
Job simulators
Academia
Policy
Communication
Project management
Leadership
Commercial awareness
Creativity
Growth mindset
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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
Handling the first few weeks
Keeping up momentum
Managing failure
Revisiting your identity
Ongoing learning and 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

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
How lab handbooks can help shape research culture in your team
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

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How to run social sessions
How to run a buddy scheme
Get buy-in from PIs and managers of researchers
Evaluate your programme
Engage employers
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
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