PhD Employability and Career Development
Information on opportunities for PhDs to develop and enhance their employability.
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| Start taking the next steps to improve your employability. | Opportunities to gain experience of a range of professional environments. |
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| See upcoming employability events and revisit useful materials from past events. |
A range of activities, including YES competitions, to enable you to gain a wide range of career skills. |
Featured
Latest News: May 20th - May 27th, 2013
Biotechnology YES Are you doing a PhD in Biosciences? Applications are now open for this year's Biotechnology YES. This is a wonderful opportunity for those doing a PhD in Biological Sciences to develop career skills in a fun environment, whilst representing the University of Leicester. Just go to www.biotechnologyyes.co.uk for further details. If you want to join a Leicester team in taking part please contact Martin Coffey on MGC5@le.ac.uk.
Biomedical YES This parallel competition is for those doing a PhD in Biomedical Sciences. If you would like to take part, please contact Martin Coffey on MGC5@LE.AC.UK
For more information on these opportunities please go to the Activities and Opportunities section, above. ________________________________________________________________ PhD internship Opportunities We currently have two PhDinternship opportunities available. One is a paid internship, which also allows the PhD student to work from home. For people from Psychology or Management background. The other is an opportunity to develop an e-book training system. The successful intern will receive a range of key employment training free of charge. If you are interested then please go to the Internship section for more information. ________________________________________________________________ If you are a female PGR coming to the end of your science PhD you may be interested in this Fellowship opportunity. _______________________________________________________________ |
Career Events from the 2011/2012 academic year
The second Evening Careers Event on Academic Careers took place on Wednesday March 21st in the Ogden Lewis seminar suite.
Interesting links
You may be interested in some research and media articles on the field of professional careers, available in the Stop-press section.
