Post-doctoral career advisory program

CIC nanoGUNE is committed to enabling our Postdoctoral Researchers to achieve the best possible record in research as well as developing science & industry soft skills. Therefore, we offer a Career Advisory Program, that is open to all Postdoctoral Researchers that are interested in receiving career advice and guidance by nanoGUNE Senior Scientists during their stay at nanoGUNE.

Formally, the postdoctoral Career Advisory Program is structured as a series of nanoPeople tasks. The Postdoctoral Researcher will be informed about this program on his/her day one at nanoGUNE and he/she will receive the following task in nanoPeople to sign up: “01. Participation decision and filling of the Individual Professional Development Form”, in which each Postdoctoral Researcher can decide on their participation, once he/she has made this decision. The fields under "Describe your capabilities" and "Professional development expectations" are not compulsory. Fill out the fields that you want to fill out.

In addition, Postdoctoral Researchers that initially rejected participation can sign up to the program at any time by emailing the Admin&HR Assistant, Laura Benedetti (l.benedetti@nanogune.eu).

The completion of this 01.task will activate the Career Advisory Program, that involves the Postdoctoral Researcher and the Career Advisor(s). In addition, as part of this first task, the Postdoctoral Researcher will complete the Individual Professional Development Form. This form will supply relevant information about his/her capabilities and professional development expectations, which will be useful for the professional development discussion that will be carried out subsequently with his/her Career Advisor(s).

After the initial sign-up, the postdoctoral Career Advisory Program of nanoGUNE consists of the following sequential steps:

Career Advisor(s):	02. Individual Professional Development Form Acknowledgement
Post-Doctoral Researcher:	03. Propose an initial meeting
Post-Doctoral Researcher:	04. Meeting to define professional expectations and to establish a support plan After this meeting, the Postdoctoral Researcher will fill out the professional expectation support plan, containing actions that will be carried out to support the professional development of the Postdoctoral Researcher. These actions should be agreed upon first with the Career Advisor and only then, the documentation should be filled out online and the administrative step completed.
Career Advisor(s):	05. Confirmation of support plan

Upon agreeing on the support plan, the plan will be followed and its defined actions taken. Thus, it is expected that there is a considerable period in between steps 5. and 6., even if an administrative task associated with step 6. is generated right away upon completing step 5.

Career Advisor(s):	06. Notification of Mid-term program completion (uploaded files can be found under CIC57 projects named Career Advisory program)
Post-Doctoral Researcher:	06. Propose a feedback meeting
Post-Doctoral Researcher:	07. Professional development feedback meeting + update support plan After the feedback meeting, the Postdoctoral Researcher will update the professional expectation support plan, as was agreed upon with the Career Advisor, and then complete this administrative step in nanoPeople.
Career Advisor(s):	08. Confirmation of updated support plan
Post-Doctoral Researcher:	09. Do you want to continue the program? Here, the Postdoctoral Researcher can decide to continue with the Career Advisory program or end it.
Post-Doctoral Researcher:	10. Did your expectations change? Postdoctoral Researchers, who want to continue, will be asked if their general career expectations have changed and accordingly, they will either proceed by continuing to execute their updated support plan and have subsequent feedback meetings, i.e. step 6ff. (no general expectation change), or they will redefine their changed expectations by filling out a new Individual Professional Development Form, i.e. step 01ff. (the generation of the related tasks will be done by the administration).

Please, pay attention to the description of each task in nanoPeople before changing its status and follow the indicated instructions.

For more information please contact:

Andreas Berger, a.berger@nanogune.eu
Itziar Otegui, i.otegui@nanogune.eu
Laura Benedetti, l.benedetti@nanogune.eu

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