Planning and exploring
Knowing your skills, strengths, values and motivations is of great importance if you are considering future options to develop your research career both in academia and in companies. Next, you could find some interesting resources to help you plan your career development and explore opportunities.
Updated diagram of the different stages of the research career (R1-R4). It provides information about the funding opportunities and calls that can be requested at any time.
Non-profit program, world leader in supporting the professional development of researchers. Aimed at people who want to develop their career in the field of research, either inside or outside academia or research centers. It provides documents and reports on a professional research career, inspiring experiences of research careers or guidelines for creating effective curricula, as well as more specific documents with guidelines for generating networking, how to approach a research career in a period of professional maturity or specific experiences of researchers who have decided to create their own company and in what areas, showing good practices.
Find out your needs, values and motivations and plan your development. The toolkit for researchers highlights resources to help you explore careers for researchers, including advice, quizzes, information and much more.
The objective is researchers to explore opportunities for working in other sectors. It will provide information about working outside academia, available careers in other sectors, provide inspiring career and practical guide and advice.
PIPERS Project Career Kit es una colección de recursos de aprendizaje en los temas de habilidades empresariales, alfabetización informacional, trabajo disciplinario, propiedad industrial e intelectual, habilidades de liderazgo, gestión de una carrera investigadora, desarrollo profesional, compromiso público, autoevaluación del investigador, explotación de los resultados de la investigación. y trabajo en la industria.
The EURAXESS Smart Talks podcast is a personal guide to career research, innovation and entrepreneurship.
Designed for planning professional development. It is structured in four different evaluation sections called “Future”, “Present”, “Past” and “Personal Journey Map”.
It aims to encourage and to facilitate transnational mobility, by fostering cooperation between the researchers from European Research Area (ERA) and EURAXESS Worldwide (third) countries. Within the framework of this programme, experienced researchers will have the unique opportunity to mentor early-stage researchers and support their integration and career development in international mobility perspective.
REBECA aims to facilitate that young researchers from all over Europe explore and reflect on their options beyond academia. During 6 months, the mentoring programme will put in touch early stage researchers working in European academic institutions with highly skilled professionals working in Europe in industry, management, and other sectors beyond academia related with science, engineering, mathematics, social science and humanities disciplines.
This tool offers information about the skills that PhDs develop throughout their careers. One of its objectives is to build bridges between the world of research and business by promoting the idea that a doctorate, backed by training in scientific research, is a professional who has acquired all the human skills and abilities necessary to meet the needs of the business world.
Tool for supporting planning the professional career of doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers in science areas.
Science magazine publishes interesting articles and reports on the professional research career and has a portal in which it publishes job offers in the field of science and technology. Article Transferring Your Skills – It addresses the most demanded skills in different professional sectors. Article Developing Your Skills – It analyzes the skills needed in each phase of the research career and how to make them profitable at the moment of change.
Resources for the researcher who wants to start in entrepreneurship
Learn about the key concepts of startup entrepreneurship, pick the right tools to be the most productive, advance faster, collaborate smoothly, and browse through a searchable database of hundreds of hand picked online resources that will make your journey easier.
Preparing your CV
The CV is a document for introducing and marketing the skills and professional achievements to a prospective employee. The CV must be adapted to the requirements of the different job positions and must be updated as experience is gained. This document should help you to stand out from other applicants.
FECYT model – Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology.
One of the most recognized CV formats in Europe. Companies and research institutions find it familiar and easy to use. It provides recommendations for preparing a good CV and motivation letter.
Other models
