Career support resources for early career researchers

Here you find resources and literature that can support you in your continuous professional development.

This framework is divided in the three phases onboarding, ongoing and outgoing to ensure timely, incremental and differentiated information and tools available to you in your continuous development.

 

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Illustration: An overview of the overlapping onboarding, ongoing and outgoing phases. The duration of each phase is subjective and depend on each individual’s background and context.

Onboarding

The aim of the onboarding phase is to help you become established and productive in your new position as soon as possible. Here we have collected some relevant information and tools that can be helpful and applied directly in your start-up period

Ongoing

The transfer from the onboarding phase to the ongoing phase happens gradually. The duration of your onboarding phase will be different from your peers as you have different backgrounds and starting points. Here we have listed some topics and relevant resources that can help you in your continuous professional development.

Outgoing

The outgoing phase makes out the final period of your PhD or postdoc period and consists of finish up your papers/monographs, writing your thesis and applying for new jobs. Here we have listed relevant resources to help you in your transition to your next job