OPD - February 26 2020 - Career options with your PhD

Notes:


  • "Change favours the prepared mind"
  • "Planned Happenstance" theory. Creating opportunities out of aspirations that you would like to pursue in your career.
  • Put yourself out there and when opportunity arises, you're prepared
  • Update CV. LinkedIn and Orchid
  • Successful Career Management - self-knowledge, knowledge of opportunities, positive marketing.
  • www.authentichappiness.com is a strength assessment tool
  • Career anchors. When are you at your best? What motivates you? What values are important to you? "I want a career where...." Hold the ideal and compare to reality
  • Spin out. IP of uni and taken into business. Look at Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow unis. 
  • Info and case studies www,prospects.ac.uk  www.vitae.ac.uk
  • LinkedIn for careers outside academia
  • Portfolio Career - conferences research participants beforehand and looked at opportunities
























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