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Research Staff Career Mentoring Scheme
This annual mentoring scheme has now been successfully running for three years. Career mentoring is a considered a vital part of the development provision offered to Research colleagues at Loughborough University. Our mentoring scheme is endorsed by Senior Managers in the University.
If you would like to volunteer to be a Mentee (and it is first come first served) or a Mentor, please send your name to Sarah Sargeant S.J.Sargeant@lboro.ac.uk) by Thursday 11th June. Further information about what will be involved in the two roles is provided below.
For Mentees this will be an opportunity for regular
discussions with more experienced staff, in a selection of professions, to
receive personal careers
and professional development advice. It is envisaged that the mentors will
be senior/experienced
Research Staff, Heads of Departments, Lecturing Staff, Academic Support
Staff and Researchers who have developed their careers outside of Higher
Education
Benefits to Research Staff are :
- Ideas to enable informed career decision making
- Increased knowledge of employer requirements (academic and commercial)
- Better understanding of academic and business culture and academic career progression
- Advice on how to present your skills to employers plus enhanced communication and presentation skills.
Are you an experienced Researcher and would like to volunteer to be a Mentor on the scheme ?
The time commitment will be at most 1.5 hours every 4 - 6 weeks and travel
expenses will
be re-imbursed. Training and support will be given to all Mentors and
Mentees participating
in the scheme.
The types of skills required by Mentors are :-
- The ability to listen.
- Openness.
- Commitment.
- Time management.
- Self-management skills.
- Assertiveness.
- Realism.
- Discretion.
- Ability to motivate and help identify opportunities.
Some of the benefits to Mentors are :-
- An opportunity to develop mentoring and coaching skills.
- Networking opportunities with researchers early in their career and other Mentors from a wide range of research-related occupations.
- The opportunity to 'give back' to people developing their career.
All Mentors who volunteer for this pilot will be placed on a database to be contacted for future schemes post-pilot, if there are too many Mentors for this small pilot.
Quick links:
Loughborough University Careers Centre - Information relevant to research staff.
jobs.ac.uk is a good source of vacancy information from UK HEIs. The website also includes career development resources.
Vitae - Researcher development organisation, lots of resources for research staff.
CRAC - The organisation that runs Vitae, holds a £15m contract to support the personal, professional and career management of researchers in the UK.
Prospects - A vacancy search engine, also provides CV checking service, interactive advice and online career coaching.
Graduate Recruitment Bureau - A job search engine online advice and job hunters toolkit feature on this website. Despite being aimed at graduates this is a good source of information and links.
Times Higher Education Supplement
i-spark - A community of engineers and scientists looking to share knowledge and experience to help each other reach their career goals. It is free to use and users can join at any stage of their career.
Science's Next Wave a worldwide search engine for vacancies, careers advice, job market news, how-to guides. US based, targeted at scientists but information relevant to other fields. Includes Careers Basics book containing advice and resources for scientists - again some of the information is relevant to non-scientists.