Enterprise and Career development

Course: PhD career management

What will I do after my doctorate?

How should I approach my Ph.D. course if I aim to stay in research, and how if I don't?

What will I lose and what will I gain if I will choose corporate work, or set up my own business?

What does my Ph.D. give me outside the University, and what is the best way to get the most out of it?

The “PhD career management” course was created as a career support for doctoral students from the first year, aiming to explore questions such as the above, helping learners develop the skills needed to consciously build and manage their own professional development in Academia or outside of it.

The goal is to stimulate the development of an “orientational intelligence”, that is, the ability to perceive the internal signals capable of guiding our choices toward satisfaction and relate them to the opportunities offered by one’s context.

A help not to get lost, a guaranteed time for guided reflection on oneself and the doctoral program in relation to contemporary society and the economy. A moment that will help counteract the decline in well-being and the demotivation that are unfortunately a known risk during the doctoral journey, intervening in one of the dimensions of doctoral students’ stress: the uncertainty about the future.

The program for each year includes a combination of two-hour online training modules taught by docKto - a mind set to explore (an agency focusing on career guidance for researchers, founded by two Ph.D.s who developed and extra-academic career) and one-and-a-half-hour webinars offered by Art-ER, a consortium company of Emilia Romagna focusing on innovation, which will facilitate the linking of content with the regional innovation ecosystem.

All modules will be delivered in English.

          First year          Second year         Third year          Lab (Second & Third year)

ForDoc è la directory della Borsa del Placement dedicata a dottorandi e dottori di ricerca, promossa dalla Fondazione Emblema in collaborazione con Unife, che consente di conoscere aziende che investono in ricerca e sviluppo in Italia e sono interessate all’inserimento di profili iper specializzati.

La rassegna propone eventi di recruiting, di approfondimento, confronto e orientamento al lavoro e all’autoimprenditoria.

Calendario