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- 1. www.kcl.ac.uk/crsd https://twitter.com/KclCRSD http://blogs.kcl.ac.uk/researchstaff LinkedIn King’s Research Staff research-staff@kcl.ac.uk
- 2. The Centre for Research Staff DevelopmentTeam www.kcl.ac.uk/crsd https://twitter.com/KclCRSD http://blogs.kcl.ac.uk/researchstaff LinkedIn King’s Research Staff research-staff@kcl.ac.uk
- 3. What AreYou AimingTo Achieve Today? www.kcl.ac.uk/crsd https://twitter.com/KclCRSD http://blogs.kcl.ac.uk/researchstaff LinkedIn King’s Research Staff research-staff@kcl.ac.uk • Some ideas for the future? • Information about a particular career direction? • Knowledge of how to get a job in a particular sector/organisation/NHS Department? • A new friend?
- 4. What AreYou AimingTo Achieve Today? www.kcl.ac.uk/crsd https://twitter.com/KclCRSD http://blogs.kcl.ac.uk/researchstaff LinkedIn King’s Research Staff research-staff@kcl.ac.uk • Turn to someone you don’t know. You have one minute • Introduce yourselves • Find out what each of you hopes to gain from attending this event • If you still have time left after this then discuss who you would like to speak to today • Quick show of hands, how many of you have a clear purpose in attending today’s event?
- 5. Information Interviewing www.kcl.ac.uk/crsd https://twitter.com/KclCRSD http://blogs.kcl.ac.uk/researchstaff LinkedIn King’s Research Staff research-staff@kcl.ac.uk “An Informational Interview (also known as an Informational conversation) is a meeting in which a potential job seeker seeks advice on their career, the industry, and the corporate culture of a potential future workplace; while an employed professional learns about the job seeker and judges their professional potential and fit to the corporate culture, so building their candidate pool for future hires.”
- 6. Questions www.kcl.ac.uk/crsd https://twitter.com/KclCRSD http://blogs.kcl.ac.uk/researchstaff LinkedIn King’s Research Staff research-staff@kcl.ac.uk “If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes” Albert Einstein
- 7. What Makes a Good Careers Networking Question? www.kcl.ac.uk/crsd https://twitter.com/KclCRSD http://blogs.kcl.ac.uk/researchstaff LinkedIn King’s Research Staff research-staff@kcl.ac.uk If you have a clear sense of purpose you’ll be in a better position to formulate good questions. A good question • gives you the information you need • expands your knowledge, options and horizons • respects the person you are asking https://tinyurl.com/kbsrykk
- 8. Professional Relationships www.kcl.ac.uk/crsd https://twitter.com/KclCRSD http://blogs.kcl.ac.uk/researchstaff LinkedIn King’s Research Staff research-staff@kcl.ac.uk Answers Advice Assistance Advocacy Alliance David Winter, The Careers Group
Editor's Notes
- My name is Kathy Barrett, I manage the CRSD I started out as a researcher and reached the heady heights of having my own research group. I then realised I was becoming more interested in how people moved through their professional lives than I was in the research and started to move in that direction by taking up a position mainly at UCL working with students and research staff on career decision making and progression. More recently King’s decided to set up the CRSD and when I saw the job advertised I jumped at the opportunity. What is the CRSD? Well, there are two things that are important here. The first is Research Staff. Is there anyone here who is a postdoc? A teaching fellow, a research assistant, a technician on a fixed-term contract? If you just put your hand up in response to that question and you’re on a fixed-term contract rather than a permanent academic or management role then you come under our remit. The second is Development, in our case linked to the word professional. We’re responsible for policy and practice around your professional development. This means the more obvious role of putting on a programme of courses and creating other opportunities for you to develop professionally, and perhaps less obviously advocating on your behalf within the university and also on a national level. So that anyone who doesn’t fit in our remit doesn’t feel left out, if you’re a PhD student then the CRSD equivalent is the Graduate School, if you’re a staff member on a permanent contract then it’s Organisation Development.
- Who are we? You might recognise some of us. In the interests of time I will focus on the person who is the most relevant for the context of today. That’s Kate. Kate has been a careers consultant at King’s for several years. She is currently on secondment at Goldsmiths and will be returning to King’s in the summer. In the meantime her role is being covered by various others who are all equally well able to guide you through the careers minefield, from “help I have no ideas what to do next!” all the way through to “I’ve been offered a job and I need to negotiate”.
- You presumably had a purpose in coming to this event today. I’m going to make some guesses about what that might be. They may depend on how advanced your thinking is about what your future holds. Are they…. ……or were you just looking for new friends? We’re going to start by picking up on that last one and breaking some ice. Since today has a huge networking element we’re going to start off with a bit of safe networking! I’m going to give you a minute to discuss your purpose in attending this event with someone near you who you don’t know. I’d recommend that you start by introducing yourself and then find out each other’s purpose. As this is about networking if you finish that before the minute is up then you might like to talk about who you would like to speak to today.
- Just in case you’re not clear about what we’re doing, here are some instructions Please put up your hand if you have a clear purpose in attending today’s event. I don’t need to know what it is, just whether or not you have one. Keep hold of that purpose as you’ll be using it in a minute.
- Informational interviewing as a concept has been around for a while. The term was first coined by a well know author in the careers world, Richard Bolles. This is essentially what it is about. I’m anticipating that you will be engaging in it at some point today, for example during the networking session at 3.30pm. Incidentally, I’ll be manning a stand there if you’d like to find out more about what the CRSD does.
- If you are engaging in information interviewing, like any other networking activity it is good to be equipped with some good questions. Having the right questions can make your networking that much more effective
- And if you have a clear sense of purpose then you’ll be able to formulate better questions. A good question….. What would be a good question in the context of today? And in the interests of time, I’m putting up a link for those of you would have appropriate gadgets and may want some more ideas to use today.