Careers and Employability Service
Postgraduate researchers

Careers events

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We deliver a range of courses, as shown below, targeted at postgraduate researchers throughout the year.

We also offer a central programme for all students (see below) and there will be events relevant to you and your careers research.

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PGR Careers Events

  • Personality Profiling for PGRs
    Starts: 2 Jul 2024, 1:00 pm
    Finishes: 2 Jul 2024, 2:30 pm
    Venue: University Park, Portland Building, D37 Careers Event Space
    Would you like to learn more about your own working style and how you work with others? This interactive session will introduce you to the World’s biggest personality Profiling tool, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and how give you practical tips for working with own style.
  • Civil Service: an introduction to the organisation, roles available and application process
    Starts: 3 Jul 2024, 12:30 pm
    Finishes: 3 Jul 2024, 1:30 pm
    Come along to this session to hear from Tegan and Matt who are Alumni from the UoN and are now working for the Civil Service. Find out: What we did before we went onto the Fast Stream, What you can apply to, The application process, Different departments you can work in, General Civil Service life/pros and cons of the job and What a normal day looks like for each of us.
  • Translating your skills for careers outside of academia
    Starts: 17 Jul 2024, 12:00 pm
    Finishes: 17 Jul 2024, 1:00 pm
    Do you want to learn how to sell your skills as a researcher to other settings? Come to our webinar to find out how to translate all your strengths into applications for roles outside of academia
  • Knowledge Transfer Partnerships
    Starts: 18 Jul 2024, 12:00 pm
    Finishes: 18 Jul 2024, 1:00 pm
    Launch your career with one of the UK’s biggest graduate recruiters: Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP) are collaborative projects lasting up to 3 years between a business and a university, led and managed by a graduate or postgraduate who is based at the business. With over 350 new roles across the country each year, there are opportunities for graduates across all disciplines to gain commercial project management skills in industry while keeping one foot in academia.
  • Strengths for PGRs
    Starts: 23 Jul 2024, 12:00 pm
    Finishes: 23 Jul 2024, 1:30 pm
    Venue: University Park, Portland Building, D37 Careers Event Space
    Come along to our workshop to focus on the strengths you have gained whilst completing your PhD. Come along to identify your strengths and how you can use them in your future career.

Doctoral Training Programmes and faculty/school events

Our specialist senior careers adviser, Kirstin Barnard, delivers presentations and workshops at specific events as part of Doctoral Training Programmes, faculty, school or departmental training programmes.

These workshops include both Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and Strong Interest Inventory. Please email us to find out more.

Career and personal development online courses

Our personal development course covers four topics:

  • Strengths
  • Myers- Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
  • Imposter phenomenon
  • Career well-being

Our career development course, Thinking Ahead - Exploring Career Options has three modules

  • Module 1: Thinking About Yourself
  • Module 2: Thinking About Your Options
  • Module 3: Career Decisions

Ideally take this course during your first half of your research degree.

Find out more about our courses
 

Careers events for all students 

You may also want to review our events programme for all students as they maybe relevant to your situation and some of the visiting speakers have a background in research. The events programme includes:

  • Job and sector insights - covering a wide range of industries and job roles
  • Finding opportunities and applying - covering all aspects of the recruitment process
  • Recruitment and careers fairs - meet employers with vacancies to fill
  • Employer recruitment presentations - find out from employers about their job vacancies

Go to our events programme

 

 

Careers and Employability Service

University of Nottingham
Portland Building, Level D
University Park
Nottingham, NG7 2RD

telephone: +44 (0) 115 951 3680
fax: +44 (0) 115 951 3679
email: careers-team@nottingham.ac.uk