Developing Transferable Skills
Enhancing Your Research and Employment Potential
- Pam Denicolo - Consultant on Doctoral Education and Training
- Julie Reeves - University of Southampton, UK
Success in Research
Succinct and supportive, this book provides doctoral and early career researchers with everything you need to know about developing marketable, transferrable skills—and how they can lead to getting that dream job.
It illustrates exactly how and when your doctoral degree can be used to build your employability skills in both academic and professional contexts and sets out the basics of acquiring these key transferable skills. Featuring easy-to-implement advice on constructing specialist and generic professional attributes, it gives you the tools, confidence, and active self-awareness needed to handle career challenges and convince prospective employers of your experience.
With coverage of project management, teamworking, communication, leadership and technical training, it is an essential guide for researchers who want to make the most of the skills you already have and to develop the skills you need.
About the series
The Success in Research series, from Cindy Becker and Pam Denicolo, provides short, authoritative and accessible guides on key areas of professional and research development.
Avoiding jargon and cutting to the chase of what you really need to know, these practical and supportive books cover a range of areas from presenting research to achieving impact, and from publishing journal articles to developing proposals. They are essential reading for any student or researcher interested in developing their skills and broadening their professional and methodological knowledge in an academic context.
Supplements
A collection of free tips, exercises and resources from all books in the Success in Research series
An excellent book on how to assess and develop skills that are transferable from on career to another. I work in a university and am responsible for career development of post graduate researchers and Post-Docs and this book has been really useful in helping those who want to pursue a non-academic career
An excellent text which prepares students for transition from university to the world of work both local and global
a good read for anyone who has found they are trained or skilled in one job sector but can only find work outside that area. it looks at how skills can be transferable.
This is an excellent text on transferable skills but is aimed more at a postgraduate audience whereas I was seeking something for an undergraduate cohort.
