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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
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
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
Self Awareness of scientific knowledge, skills, interests, values
myIDP’s “Assessment” section
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
Self Awareness of scientific knowledge, skills, interests, values
myIDP’s “Assessment” section
• 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
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http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/tools_tips/outreach/booklets
myIDP in 2014 edn
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