Broadening Horizons: Career management for research staff28 June 2010 - 29 June 2010

Event overview

This interactive and intensive two-day programme will provide you with the opportunity, skills and tools to engage proactively in your own career development. The programme will enable you to gain a clearer self-orientation of where you are within your career and to consider what your next steps might be, whether your aspirations are to remain in research and/or academia or to move into other areas.

Participants will be placed in learning groups to work on a range of activities, supported by an experienced team of facilitators. The programme will enable you to:

• gain a sense of direction and progression
• widen your understanding of career options
• better understand your own career situation
• develop tools and techniques to explore your skills, motivations, values and talents and how you can apply these to your career planning
• consider potential jobs you might like to explore further
• consider what makes an effective CV
• commit to an action plan for your personal and career development.

Also see the NW Hub blog post on this course here.

Who should attend?

Research staff who have an interest in developing skills and tools to help them proactively engage in their own career development.

To book:

This course is now full and bookings have closed.