PhD Career management 2 - 2nd year (cycle 40)

3 Credits
Minimum attendance: 50% + Passing the final test

The course will be taught in English.

The course, offered in the second year of the PhD programme, will address the difficulties and barriers that exist in communicating with those who do not have the same type of experience, i.e. interlocutors outside the academic context: an important consideration not only in terms of a possible future career transition, but also for those within the university who will find themselves working with external companies, institutions or organisations. The creation of an appropriate LinkedIn profile, already useful in an academic context, will be used as a case study for this reflection.

This reasoning will also take into account the psychological variables involved and linked to the sadly topical issue of the well-being of doctoral students, giving them the tools to see themselves with greater confidence and to know how to prevent or listen in a generative way to any discomfort they may encounter.

Many of the difficulties inherent in the boundary between academia and the job market are related to aspects of communication, reference culture and specific language. These critical aspects will be addressed both from a theoretical point of view and through practical application.

The course is divided into four modules:

• Skills are not things: keywords for translating your PhD into the language of work (2 hours online)
• Talking about your PhD: your LinkedIn profile as a case study in self-branding (2 hours online)
• Well-being in the workplace: where to go and how to stay there (2 hours online)
• Open innovation management in an open ecosystem (1.5 hours online)