Pritchard CareerDevtSession UG OVC

Career Planning for PhDs, Post Docs and Early Career Scientists

Career Development Seminar

Animal & Poultry Science

OVC, University of Guelph

May 1, 2015

Peggy A. Pritchard, Editor and Author

Success Strategies From Women in STEM: A Portable Mentor, 2nd Ed.

University of Guelph, Canada

[email protected]

Queen’s University

Department of Microbiology &

Immunology

Elsevier Academic Press, 2006

Generously funded by grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research

Peggy A. Pritchard Research Librarian University of Guelph

Christine S. Grant Chemical and Biomolecular Engineer, North Carolina State University

2nd Edition. Elsevier, June 2015

STEM = Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics

Outline

A. So, what can I do with a PhD in Science?

B. Managing your career in Science

1. Self awareness

2. Opportunity awareness

3. Decide and develop a plan

4. Implement plan and review periodically

C. Take control of the impact of your work [if time]

A. What Can I Do with a PhD in Science?

Research

Research

What are some research options?

Research

What if research isn’t an option?

…now what?

PhD in Science

There are MANY alternatives

Source: http://blogs.sciencemag.org/sciencecareers/2010/09/alternative-careers.html

B. Managing Your Career in Science

What is “Career Management”?

“…the lifelong process of managing learning, work, leisure, and transitions in order to move toward a personally determined and evolving preferred future.”

National Steering Committee for Career Development

Guidelines and Standards, 2014

http://cccda.org/cccda/index.php/the-career-development-profession/what-is-career-development

Managing Your Career A Four-Step Process

1. Develop self awareness

2. Become aware of opportunities

3. Decide and develop a plan

4. Implement plan, review periodically

myIDP.sciencecareers.org

http://myIDP.sciencecareers.org

Self Awareness of scientific knowledge, skills, interests, values

myIDP’s “Assessment” section

• Scientific Knowledge • Research Skills • Communication • Professionalism • Management & Leadership • Responsible Conduct of Research • Career Planning



Interests relating to • conducting research • analyzing data • thinking/writing about and

presenting science to colleagues and/or non-specialist audiences

• assessing business opportunities, entrepreneurial ideas



• Helping others/society • Work environment e.g. pace,

degree of autonomy, competition • Intellectual challenge • Creativity vs predictability • Job security, benefits vs risk taking • Location, work-life balance

Opportunity Awareness myIDP’s “Career Exploration” section

• “There are > 60 difference career paths within 20 different career categories available to you as a scientist”

• myIDP identifies the paths that are the “best fit” for your skills, interests, values

Decide & Develop a Plan myIDP’s “Set Goals” section

“SMART” long- and short-term goals for 1. Career advancement 2. Skills development 3. Project completion

i.e. Specific, Measureable, Action-oriented, Realistic and Time-limited

mapped onto a 12-month planner

Implement Your Plan & Review myIDP’s “Implement Plan” section

• stresses importance of mentoring • offers strategies for identifying

potential mentors & developing relationships

• Note: people can act as ROLE MODELS without being mentors; “anti role models” can teach us how not to conduct our lives

C. Take Control of the Impact of Your Work

Acknowledgements

K. Jane Burpee Open Access and

Social Media Research Librarian

U of Guelph, Canada

Emily S. Darling David H. Smith

Conservation Research Fellow, Biology Dept,

U North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA

Emily & Jodie: Co-authors of Ch.8 “Strategically Using Social Media,” in Success

Strategies From Women in STEM: A Portable Mentor

Jodie L. Rummer Australian Research Council

Super Science Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence

for Coral Reef Studies

James Cook University

Take Control of the Impact of Your Work

Adapted from: J. Burpee, March 2015

Publish in quality sources...

avoid predatory publishers

Negotiate your author rights

Choose

Open Access

options

Connect, communicate &

collaborate through social

media

Distinguish yourself: ORCid and researcher

IDs

Share your work with the world

through

licensing

Educate the public…enhance science literacy

Seek crowd-sourced funding

Understand Impact Factor &

Alternative Metrics

Keep your contracts, pre- and post-prints

Curate your work in one

place

Track your citations and social media “influence”

A: Web-based resources & platforms that expedite conversations & allow people to generate content & interact…globally

vs. traditional media, one-way deliver

Q: What is social media?

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The stats are here…

2014: 2.5 billion internet users (1/3 of world!)

1.8 billion people linked to social media

230 million active user accounts

Daily: 500 million tweets sent = 5,700 tweets per second

1 billion accounts

Daily: 665 million people check Facebook

259 million accounts

2 new people sign up every second

Sharing knowledge faster & further than ever before…

Adapted from J. Rummer, Feb. 2015

• You will be Google’d (e.g., by potential employers)

• AltMetrics becoming more important

Q: So, WHY is it important to have a positive online presence?

Citation metrics, altmetric score

of recent article published in

Nature

• Contribute to dissemination of information

• Increase potential for collaboration and even…

crowd-sourced funding (see: www.KickStarter.com)

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Connect, Communicate and Collaborate through Social Media….

• Track cutting-edge research in your field

• Increase impact of your own research

• Build/maintain network of collaborators world-wide

• Boost your visibility as a leader in your field

Career

• Learn about awards, grants, and

training opportunities

• Identify new career

opportunities

• Be seen by potential employers Ad

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Questions?

Peggy A. Pritchard ◆ University of Guelph, Canada ◆ [email protected]

Success Strategies From Women in STEM: A Portable Mentor, 2nd Ed.

Chapter 1 Career Management

Peggy A. Pritchard

Chapter 8

Strategically Using Social Media

Emily S. Darling & Jodie L. Rummer

Book forthcoming

June 2015

References and Recourses

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Science Careers Booklets

http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/tools_tips/outreach/booklets

myIDP in 2014 edn

Science Careers 2014 Handbook

http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/sites/default/files/CareerHandbook_2014_web_x1a_OPT.pdf

http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/sites/default/files/CareerHandbook_2014_web_x1a_OPT.pdf

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