Formation « Follow your skills evolution throughout your PhD »

Objectives:

> Guide PhD candidates to identify and promote their competency (knowledge, technical skills, inter-personal skills, cross-disciplinary and transferable skills) throughout their doctorate

> Know how to take advantage of the portfolio of skills and knowledge

Program:

Unit 1: Presentation of the portfolio of skills and knowledge

• Portfolio presentation and user guide
• Presentation of the skills and occupations base (CAREER project) and other tools available
• How to analyze past and future experiences to identify the developed competences (knowledge, technical skills, interpersonal skills)

Unit 2: Become an actor-builder of their training path during their doctorate

• Define priorities in terms of competences, aspirations and motivations
• Know how to position their self in relation to “who I am”, “what I know how to do” and “what I want to do”
• The different types of competences and how to acquire them during the doctorate program via training through research and additional training sessions: presentation of perfect examples of training paths depending on their career objectives

Unit 3: Presentation of the methodology to set up for the rest of the doctorate

• Organization of 3 working sessions on competences at the end of the first, second and third PhD years
• Program to refine their career objectives, review past and coming steps and associated competencies before the last PhD year, prepare their post-PhD action plan

Prerequisites:

Training for 1st year PhD students