Leave EGU27 more confident in your skills and with a firmer grasp on your career identity! Anyone entering the job market or looking for a new job after academia will confront the phrase ‘transferable skills’. PhD candidates and scientists are advised to highlight their transferable skills when applying for non-academic jobs, looking to change scientific research areas, or take a leap into a new field. Yet, whilst it is important to important to highlight your transferable skills, it it can be difficult to know what skills you have and how relevant they are.
Join this interactive short course to help identify your skills, learn what different type of skills there are, how they can be used to inform your career identity. There are many transferable skills you might have from your research career: big data analysis, communicating your findings, supervising, teaching, project management and budgeting, for example. But there are many more! Throughout his short course, facilitators with experience navigating academic and non-academic careers will help guide you in laying a firmer path for your career journey, as you better understand your set of skills and the careers where these will be necessary.