Career Development
Research staff are welcome to book a careers appointment with a member of the Careers Network team.
Career Coaching appointment - to discuss career options - what next after the end of your contract, your next career move or transition
Careers Advice appointment – for a CV or application review
Interview Coaching appointment – if you have been invited to attend an interview and would like some support preparing.
Appointments can be made by telephone (01509) 222765 or email studentservices@lboro.ac.uk. You will also need to register on our online booking system in order for the booking to be made – select the Graduates and Research Staff tab.
You may find the video below helpful as you start to consider your future career.
Career Progression Framework for Research Staff
We have a few useful downloadable tools to help you think about your career:
An interactive mindmap PDF to help you look at career options (you may need to open with Adobe Acrobat to view correctly, i.e. "Save link as...")
An interactive mindmap PDF exploring 'My career - what next?' (ditto)
A model of the Research Career
Mapping research career development with the Researcher Development Framework
More career development links
- jobs.ac.uk
This is a good source of vacancy information from UK HEIs. The website also includes career development resources.
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Researcher development organisation, lots of resources for research staff.
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A vacancy search engine, also provides CV checking service, interactive advice and online career coaching.
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A job search engine online advice and job hunters toolkit feature on this website. Despite being aimed at graduates this is a good source of information and links.