Ways and means from one’s PHD to a carreer out of academic world PC-EDD-31

Date 30 janvier 2019 Nantes

COURSE OBJECTIVES

Get a better understanding of professional organizations (outside academic world) and their cultures

Identify jobs and positions available to PhD’s, among which those relating to innovation, and how to get in touch with this “invisible” job market

Identify main components of one’s professional project (competencies, aspirations, values…)

List and name which personal and professional skills should be promoted or enhanced according to one’s project.

It is NOT a training on how to write curriculum vitae or motivation letters, but a process to help you build your professional scenarios on you experience, skills, motivations. It will help you enhance the professional network that will – when time has come – support your project.

PROGRAM, TRAINING CONTENT

We’ll go back and forth between examples and questions, to explore:

Your experience, understanding and maybe fantasies about professional worlds, and broaden what you think a PhD’s position is or may be Imagine which original path could be yours, which kind of organization and team could better match your skills and tastes.

To do that, you will be asked to revisit your professional identities, as a researcher among others, your own resources (material, social, and maybe psychologic ones), and build an action plan based on your convictions and questions.

Contents

A few questions to present / reveal oneself, as a student / PhD / researcher / professional / citizen

Some knowledge and tools, according to the group needs and dynamics, among which:

• Definition and use of “skills” (competencies) from a HR (human resources) point of view
• How to build one’s arguments on one’s experience(s), instead of status or titles
• How to think global: transdisciplinary, team work, valuable non-scientific skills…
• How to define one’s goals (future positions) and ways to get there, even through jobs that may not be called “research”
• Psychological tests and profiles to know oneself, PhD is NOT a single personality type!
• How to define a communication strategy to serve one’s project?

specificities

Individual and small group work, collective debates on lecturer’s presentations.