Career Development

Career opportunities after the PhD are plentiful and often hidden in the non-academic job market. In this course, participants will discuss and exchange best practices in compiling a CV or resume that reflect the passion, skills and knowledge collected throughout the academic career and fitted for the desired position.
Additional topics and questions addressed during the course include: What is required for a position in the industry? Have you considered to become an entrepreneur? How can you best prepare for a job interview?

Course content

Methodology

A2P courses are geared towards adult learning and use participatory approaches. The trainer encourages participants to add their experience and knowledge to the course content. Topics covered are backed by real examples and relate to the participants’ field of research.

Before the course, participants can submit specific questions and their own presentation examples by email. The course content will be adjusted to the specific needs and requirements of the participants.

Participants are handed out reading material to be discussed during the course as well as a course summary with their achievements.

Links & References

AcademiaNet is a database of profiles of excellent female researchers from all disciplines.
Persson T, (2015), How to work with a scientific recruiter, blogs.nature.com
Persson T, (2016), Moving your career to Stockholm, Sweden, passportcareer.com

Listen to inspiring PhD Career Stories

PhD Career Stories is a podcast about the diversity of career opportunities after the PhD, be it in academia, industry or elsewhere. Stories are narrated by the people themselves. 

A2P blog posts on Career Development

• National University Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Baseline Study
  Pivot Global Education was commissioned by the Universities South Africa’s Entrepreneurship Development in Higher Education along with the Department of Higher Education and Training (South Africa) to assess and map the development of entrepreneurship throughout the country’s public universities by evaluating structures, supports, delivery and successes in entrepreneurship development.
• Open Scholarship Strategy
  This article was originally published at ese-bookshelf.blogspot.com by our colleague Duncan Nicholas. After more than a year of work, the Open Scholarship Strategy document has been published in full. The work was inspired by the Foundations for OER Strategy Development, the FORCE11 Scholarly Commons Working Group, and developed by an open contribution working group of 32 … Read more
• Communication of Science: Out with the old and in with the new!
  This post was originally published in Swedish at the Vetenskap & Allmänhet website. “VA is an independent Swedish non-profit membership organization that works to promote dialogue and openness between researchers and the public.” This English version was originally published by Olle Bergman on LInkedIn. I harp on about it all the time, so I may as well … Read more
• Good Manufacturing Practice
  For a 2-day course on Good Manufacturing Practice earlier this week, I prepared the following presentation. The lecture started with a recap of Good Scientific Practice, followed by Good Laboratory Practice as prerequisites for reliable and transparent manufacturing in pharmaceutical, medicinal, food and agricultural industries. Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) 2day course from Johanna Havemann Insights and feedback … Read more
• TEDxRuhrUniversityBochum: Building a Better World
    In April this year, the following 10 changemakers gathered at Ruhr University for TEDxRuhrUniversityBochum:   (1) Ganesh Muren presenting his social enterprise Saora Insustries, which delivers a solution for sustainable, affordable and environment-friendly drinking water. (2) Jakob Schoen had a vision of a volunteer maritime salvage back in 2015, when he heard about the many deaths of people … Read more