Claire Ward & Helen Gorman, Careers & Employability Advisers

Career Exploration for PhDs

- Introduction to careers exploration and CEC

- Self analysis

- Academic pathways

- Careers outside academia

- Resources

- How we can help

Aims for today

To stay or not to stay…..

• PhD

• Associate Tutor

• Faculty tracks:

• Teaching and Research (faculty)

• Research (postdoctoral fellows)

• Teaching and Scholarship (teaching fellows)

Career Ladder through academia

Career Ladder through academia

SalaryGrade

Professor ResearchProfessor ProfessorialTeachingFellow

Reader*

SeniorLecturer

Grade8 ResearchFellowB TeachingFellowGrade8

Grade7 ResearchFellowA TeachingFellowGrade7

Promo onTrack: ResearchFellowTrack TeachingFellowTrack

*the tleofReadermaybeawardedtomembersofteachingfacultyonanyscale,butitismostusuallyusedatSeniorLecturerlevel

SeniorTeachingFellow Grade9

Teaching(andResearch)FacultyTrack

Professor

LecturerB

LecturerA

SeniorLecturer SeniorResearchFellow

- http://academicpositions.co.uk/

- http://www.sciencemag.org/careers (science positions - post docs advertised)

- https://jobs.newscientist.com/en-gb/

- The institution’s website - search directly for jobs

- https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/ (jobs in Europe)

- www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/uk/

- www.jobs.ac.uk

- www.vitae.ac.uk/Researcher Development Framework (RDF)

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Academic Job resources

Translating your skills

1. Industrial research and development

2. Pharmaceutical industry

3. Engineering industry

4. Central government

5. Research Councils

6. NHS research roles

7. Careers in Medical communications

8. Charity and voluntary sector

9. Finance

10.Consultancy

10 possible career paths for researchers

• Consider the ‘parameters’ (location, salary expectations)

• Examine your motivations, interests, best environment

• Build up your network. Take the chance to meet and talk to new people.

• When applying for jobs, be ready to ‘repackage’ your PhD. Think about it

in terms of the transferable skills you’ve developed and experience you’ve

gained

• If you have an extended job hunt, try to have something else running

alongside (paid work / volunteering) so it’s clear to employers that you’re

taking an active approach and are continually developing your skills

• Make the most of your careers service

Tips on making a successful move

Generating careers ideas outside academiawww.sussex.ac.uk/careers/interests

Vacancy sources

Self-assessment – (e.g. Profiling for Success)

Research ideas further – however vagueww.prospects.ac.uk

‘Talk’ to your Contacts Network including Linked In

Arrange work shadowing/work experience

Careers and Employability Centre workshops (inc PhD CV design 21/3/17)

Arrange a Careers consultation - www.sussex.ac.uk/careers/researchers

Look for vacancies – careers and employability centre website, relevant

Journals etc

Making applications, speculative approaches

Ways forward

• Media & Communications

• Development, Charities and Not for Profit

• Business & Finance

• Government, Public Services & Heritage

• Creative & Digital Technologies

• Life Sciences

• Physical Sciences, IT and Engineering

• Law

• 20th Feb - 2nd March

Alumni networking events

questions?