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The reason to do IDP
- Create a plan now to move on after your training
- Improve productivity and satisfaction
- Increase confidence in post-trainig career goals
- Increase self-efficacy: Belief that you can achieve it
Self-assessment
You can found resources in IDP
Value Clarification Exercise / Disconnects Discussion
- What is one value that you ranked as most important?
- Based on your stated career from the beginning of this workshop, what is one values-based disconnect you will encounter in that career?
- What is one challenge you will face in this career path due to that value?
- What is one potential solution to that challenge? (Ask partner for another solution)
Skills assessment
- What science career-related tasks am I good at doing?
- What tasks am I not good at doing?
- What tasks are important for success in my future career?
- How do I raise my skill level in important task areas?
Skills vs Interests
- Remember to break a career path down to specific tasks.
- What common tasks involve skills you need to improve in order to be successful? (skill disconnect)
- How can you improve?
- What common tasks involve skills you are good at but not enjoy? (interest disconnect)
- What’s a potential solution?
IDP process
- Develop a finite sets of career paths
- Explore career options with focus on your SIV results.
- Narrow options through structured process of elimination
Career exploration
MyIDP has a My Career Path Match after you did the Self-assessment. You can use this as a start. Read about careers
- Read about careers
- LinkedIn
- Search for Job Title that you are interested in
- How long does one stay in industry research jobs before moving to leadership?
- What transitional experience do I need?
- LinkedIn
- Attend career events
- Talk to people
- Most helpful: talk to professional in the career path
- Informational interviews
- Deeper information on career choices
- Appointment in advance
- List of specific questions
- Thank you notes
- value questions
- IDP website has a list
- Get experience
- InterSECT
- interview
Assignment
- Invest time in career exploration reading
- articles on careers of interest
- LinkedIn searches
- read 20-30 job postings of interest, identify themes
- Populate your LinkedIn PTO(People, Title, Organizations) list with at 6-10 people who are in the same career area as your Plan A or Plan B. Synthesize useful info by looking for themes:
- Did they complete transitional training after PhD? If so, what?
- What job titles tended to be in between PhD and current?
- What organizations or groups are they following?
- What skills or qualifications are you missing that they all have?
The next part would be set goals:
- PTO list/map
- Complete a list of skills development goals for next year
