Developing Transferable Skills

Enhancing Your Research and Employment Potential

Pam Denicolo, Julie Reeves

• Editorial: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Año: 2013
• ISBN:
  9781446292655
• Edición: 1
• Categoría: Asesoramiento en el desarrollo profesional

Succinct and supportive, this book provides doctoral and early career researchers with everything you need to know about developing marketable, transferrable skills—and how they can lead to getting that dream job.

It illustrates exactly how and when your doctoral degree can be used to build your employability skills in both academic and professional contexts and sets out the basics of acquiring these key transferable skills. Featuring easy-to-implement advice on constructing specialist and generic professional attributes, it gives you the tools, confidence, and active self-awareness needed to handle career challenges and convince prospective employers of your experience.

With coverage of project management, teamworking, communication, leadership and technical training, it is an essential guide for researchers who want to make the most of the skills you already have and to develop the skills you need.

About the series
The Success in Research series, from Cindy Becker and Pam Denicolo, provides short, authoritative and accessible guides on key areas of professional and research development.

Avoiding jargon and cutting to the chase of what you really need to know, these practical and supportive books cover a range of areas from presenting research to achieving impact, and from publishing journal articles to developing proposals. They are essential reading for any student or researcher interested in developing their skills and broadening their professional and methodological knowledge in an academic context.

Índice

• Cover Page
• Halftitle
• Success in Research
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Boxes
• List of Activities
• List of Figures
• About the authors and acknowledgements
• Prologue: Why we think this book may be useful and how you might engage with it
• 1 What are transferable skills and why they are needed?
• 2 How can researchers identify which transferable skills are needed?
• 3 How can transferable skills be acquired?
• 4 What are the key intellectual skills directly related to research?
• 5 What skills are involved in dealing with information and with maintaining integrity as a researcher?
• 6 What are the key practical research project skills?
• 7 What are the key people skills and personal attributes?
• 8 How can skill development be evidenced, assessed and evaluated?
• 9 How can transferable skills be marketed effectively to enhance employability?
• 10 How can researchers make a successful transition to another employment?
• 11 How can transferable skills become an integral part of life?
• Appendix 1: Joint Statement Skills (JSS)
• Appendix 2: Development cycle diagram
• Appendix 3: Summary diagram of the Researcher Development Framework
• Appendix 4: Employability Skills Questionnaire
• Glossary of Terms
• Index