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Some thoughts about career strategy for PhDsTRANSCRIPT
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Beyond Publish and Perish:
Developing a Global Career Strategy
Dr Breno Nunes
Lecturer in Operations Management
OIM group
e-mail address: [email protected]
PhD workshop
Aston Business School
Birmingham, UK, 01 MAY 2013
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Developing a career strategy
A deliberate plan to help you to achieve your long term
goals intelligently.
RESU
LTS
EFFORTS
(£, time, energy)
Strategic career
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Who are your career stakeholders?
• YOU
• your supervisor
• your family?
• your co-authors
What are you trying to achieve?
• Money
• Prestige / popularity
• Work flexibility / Free time
• Personal satisfaction / enjoyment
Today
Tomorrow
??????
Next 5 years
Next 10 years
?
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Career choices
• Academic
• Research position
• Teaching position
• R+T+C position
• Industry / government
• Consulting
• Specialist area (industrial sector)
• Governmental agencies
• Third sector (Not for profit, NGOs)
• Entrepreneur
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Strategic areas for your career and quality of life
Financial Social
Intellectual
PhysicalEmotional
Spiritual
Professional
development
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Self-assessment
(Today’s performance versus where I want to be)
• Financial health
• Networking / professional relationships
• Physical / Emotional / spiritual wellbeing
• Output-effort ratio (Productivity levels)
• Skills needed versus your strengths and weaknesses
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Career Strategy
Strategic Importance for your career
Per
form
an
ce S
cale
HighLow
Worse
than
As
expected
Better
than Excess?Appropriate
Improve
Urgent
Action
Adapted from Slack, 1994
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Pillars of an Academic Career
Research
Publications
(analytical and
writing skills)
Teaching
(verbal and soft
skills)
Community
Engagement
(Analytical and
social skills)
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International Careers
Issues to be considered before applying
• Where to go? (state, nation, continent, globe)
• Language
• Place
• Mentors
• Department
• School
• University
• Where is next?
• Long term career plan is essential!
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Benefits of going for international experience
• Language
• Networking
• Cultural learning
• Better salary? Financial earnings?
• Access to expertise (or experts)
• Better infra-structure and resources?
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MUST DO for academic career
• Negotiate your teaching responsibilities
• Publication strategy
• Quality versus Time versus Effort
• Demonstration of outputs in all areas
• Demonstration of potential outputs
• Time management
• Networking / professional relationship management
• Understanding the career life cycle and trade-offs
• Learn the rules of the game quickly
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Avoiding Pitfalls
• Too much multi-tasking
• Initiating too many things at the same time
• Careful with benchmarking yourself against colleagues
• Too much planning
• Working too much on non-valuable outputs
• Formal rules versus informal rules of the game
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Final Considerations
• Define well your personal and professional long-term goals
• Make conscious career choices
• Different countries and schools value different things
• Equivalence of degrees & Certifications
• Teaching vs Research vs Community
• Value of interdisciplinary studies
• Methodological positioning
• Value of emerging topics
• Publication rankings
• World academic and industrial trends