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Managing Your Research Career Using an Individual Development Plan (IDP)

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Tuesday, October 06, 2015
10:00 am - 11:30 am
Dara Wilson-Grant
Careers Beyond Academia

For better or for worse, your experiences and the training you receive as graduate students and postdoctoral researchers can greatly impact and shape the rest of your career. However, there are strategies and resources that can enhance your chances of getting what you came for. During this program participants will learn how to develop clear and specific goals and objectives, along with a plan for executing them. Topics covered in this RCR module include:-The importance of setting goals and developing an IDP-Introduction to the SMART goals model-Resources for crafting and executing your IDP-Strategies for establishing expectations and effectively communicating research and career goals with your mentor/PISPEAKER: Dara Wilson-Grant is the Associate Director at the UNC-Chapel Hill Office of Postdoctoral Affairs and a National Certified Career Counselor. NOTE: This Forum provides Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) credit. Duke postdocs are required to take yearly RCR training. If you are a Postdoctoral Associate or Postdoctoral Scholar and have attended either the day-long Postdoctoral RCR Forum or the 5-part Trent Center RCR Course, you are thereafter required to attend one RCR Forum (such as this one) ever

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