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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