Your career depends on good planning
As an early career researcher, you quickly reach a stage where the sharp focus of PhD study or the demands of initial postdoc positions give way to insistent questions about the future.
Questions like: 'What do I want from my life and my professional career?', 'What are my options and how do I go about exploring them?', or 'Where will I get help with planning and making choices that are right for me?'.
How does Career Control help?
The Career Control for Researchers program gives PhD students and postdocs the tools, guidance and confidence to take charge of their career direction, determine their own priorities and accelerate their progress.
If you are a researcher, successfully taking charge ultimately means you
How will you benefit?
When you complete the program, you can expect to be equipped with:
What participants say about Career Control...
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“The program provided an opportunity for me to overview my working life from a 10,000 ft height. It made me think deeply about the real motivation of my life and helped me crystalize my career goals. More importantly, it showed me alternative career pathways and helped me map out a detailed action plan step-by-step toward my goals.”
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“The program covered a wide range of topics that are highly relevant to a postgrad trying to work out what direction they wish to take in their career, and even just figuring out what the options are to start with.”
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“I got a lot out of the program, it was easy to do, flexible, didn't take up much time in the week and was very insightful! I would highly recommend to anyone wanting to learn more about their strengths, weaknesses and future work directions.”
How does the program fit your schedule
Career Control for Researchers has been created for early career researchers engaged in PhDs or working full time as postdocs. It is delivered online in various formats so you can choose when and how to take part.
A timeframe of 8 weeks lets you pace yourself and join the live, web-based discussions with career specialists in the weeks between modules.
The average time commitment to complete the modules is 1½ to 2 hours per fortnight, to fit in with the already full schedules of most researchers.
Program structure
One of the program's 4 main modules is made available to participants online every 2 weeks. These modules are paired with interactive webinar sessions in intervening weeks, led by the program providers to address participants' questions and give advice on specific career development issues.
The program concludes in Week 8 with a bonus module to help participants identify their existing transferrable skills and which capabilities they need to develop further.
Content
- 4 online modules (written and audio formats)
- Live webinars - moderated by PostdocTraining: Q&A and peer discussion
- A bonus module on transferrable skills needed to reach short and longer-term career destinations
- Free access to the Career Options Masterlist, an extensive database covering dozens of career paths pursued successfully by researchers, within academia and beyond
- Researchers retain lifetime access to the program material and all the resources (since career planning is an ongoing process)
- Participants can also join a closed LinkedIn forum moderated by PostdocTraining to continue exchanges on career progression with research peers.
Note: The time commitment to complete the modules is 1½ to 2 hours per fortnight, depending on the amount of detail participants use in their analysis and planning documents.
Register now for Career Control for just US$170
* The next program cycle starts on Tuesday 16 April 2024: register now to secure your place *
We will send you instructions about your participation when you register, to the email address of your choice, with information about logging in as a member. Once the course starts, access to material is on demand through a dedicated program portal, so you can take the training when you want, where you want.