Careers: Understanding & Navigating post-PhD Career Options (In Person, Face to Face)

Many academic researchers define how they see themselves by their research. This workshop will help you to understand the value of what you have to offer to employers as a researcher and how to communicate it to them. Find out how to use your PhD programme or research career as a lens to view the skills you have developed and embed this information in your CV.

Use these insights to explore your career options and inform your job search, whether you want to stay in academia or not. This session will help you to introduce yourself in person, online and in applications so that you don’t undersell yourself or your skills.

Dr Robert Bowles MRSC

After completing a PhD in marine biotechnology, and a Knowledge Transfer Partnership post doc, Robert moved out of the lab, gaining five years’ experience in sales and marketing of educational software to schools. He joined the Royal Society of Chemistry eighteen years ago and has managed a programme of their successful education and careers projects.

As a qualified careers adviser, he now works in the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Career Management team; offering careers and professional development advice to their membership and the wider chemistry community. This has allowed him to gain fantastic insights into the career paths that chemists follow.

• Chemistry PhD students
• Early Career Post-Docs in Chemistry

Number of sessions: 1

• Yearly