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Certificate of Achievement
Dr. Naraginti Amareswaran Reddy
has completed the following course:
Career Management for Early Career Academic Researchers
The University of Glasgow and The University of Edinburgh
Through this course, you have considered factors that will influence your career choices including values, skills, and personality. You have explored career options, including academic and professional roles in higher education, and discussed how to progress an academic career. You have created your job search strategy; considered what makes for success in job applications and at interview; and have developed an individual career action plan for the future
4 weeks, 3 hours per week
Katrina Gardner
Careers Manager
The University of Glasgow
Dr Sharon Maguire
Careers Consultant
The University of Edinburgh
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Develop an awareness of what is important when considering future career development, including reflection on key drivers, skills, interests, personality, and values and how these impact on career choice
- Identify the experience, skills and qualifications that will aid progression in an academic career; assess individual experience; identify gaps in light of what is required for moving on; and consider how to build relevant experience.
- Explore some of the more common career areas researchers enter outside academic research and develop strategies to help generate and research individual career ideas
- Describe how to adapt a CV for different roles and have improved confidence in presenting experience effectively when applying for academic and non-academic jobs
- Discuss what to expect at academic and non-academic interviews, how to prepare effectively for these, and develop an awareness of how to present research experience to different types of employers
Syllabus
- Factors that are important when considering future career development including key drivers, strengths, interests, personality, and values and how these impact on career choice
- Experience, skills and qualifications that aid progression in an academic career and how to build relevant experience
- Common career areas researchers enter outside academic research and how to generate and research individual career ideas
- CVs for different roles and how to present experience effectively when applying for academic and non-academic jobs
- What to expect at academic and non-academic interviews, and how to prepare effectively for these
Issued on 30th January 2020
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