Career Management for Early Career Academic Researchers Online distance learning
Explore different career options, learn what you want out of a career and understand how to implement good career decisions.
- Length: 4 weeks; 3 hours per week
- Start date: anytime
- MOOC pathway
Why this course
Intended 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
Course structure
Week 1
Making career plans
Week 2
Exploring career options
Week 3
Careers in higher education
Week 4
Job search and application process
How to register
The course is hosted on an external learning platform, Futurelearn.
Register nowRegistration for this course is free, with free time-limited access to content: charges may apply for additional features and extended study.
