Key information

Tutor: Dr Anna Seabourne and Dr Inês Perpétuo
Duration: 1 day
Delivery: Live (Online, Zoom) & Live (In-Person, South Kensington)
Audience: Postdocs

Dates

  • Thurs 26 February 2026
    09:30-16:30, Zoom
  • Thurs 18 June 2026
    09:30-17:30, South Kensington

Planning for Success Beyond Your Postdoc is designed to help experienced postdocs to take their next step, whatever your choice of future career.

During the course, you will be encouraged to explore your career options and develop an action plan to achieve the next step whilst enhancing your job application and interview skills.

This course is aimed at postdocs with two to four years’ of experience who are coming towards the end of their contract or making plans for their next career move.

Aims

The course aims to help you: 

  • Develop a strategic approach to planning your career
  • Improve your job application and interview skills, whatever your career choice

Objectives

By the end of the course, you will:

  • Reflected on the career choices you have made to date
  • Reviewed the skills and expertise you have acquired as a postdoc and identified the gaps
  • Developed strategies to move towards research independence
  • Discussed case studies which highlight common challenges
  • Set clear and robust goals to achieve career progression

How to book

Book via Inkpath using your Imperial Single-Sign-On.

Please ensure you have read and understood ECRI’s cancellation policy before booking.

 

Further Information

Pre-Course Work

You must send your CV to ecri@imperial.ac.uk at least 5 working days before the course.

For the online iteration, we will use Miro, watch this three minute video for an introduction to Miro. 

Netiquette for online training
  • It is important that you are fully present and an active participant, to create a safe space for sharing and discussion.
  • For some of our online sessions, you will be required to keep your video cameras on. Please ensure prior to attending that you have a fully functioning camera and microphone. If you have any issues with your equipment, please contact us as soon as possible. If you require your camera to be off as a workplace adjustment, please let us know in advance so that we can make the tutor/facilitator aware.
  • Please ensure that you are in a private space where you can maintain confidentiality and the privacy of the other participants.
  • To maintain confidentiality, all participants are asked to agree to keep what is said within the group, and not record or take screenshots/photos without permission. Pictures or quotes from the session should not be posted on social media or elsewhere without the express permission of those involved.
Confidentiality
  • Your CV may be shared with a selection of your peers as part of the course so that you can learn from each other and see where the gaps may be. 
  • For the course to be successful, we need to ensure that anything that you view or is shared with you verbally during the course is kept confidential

By attending the course, you are agreeing to keep all that is shared with you confidential and to not make any digital copies of the documents to which you will be given access.  You can however take written notes.

Course Resources

Course Materials

A workbook will be provided.

Tools

The course uses Miro

Other Resources
Related Courses

Interviewing for Jobs Beyond Academia 
Cover Letters for Jobs Beyond Academia 
CVs for Jobs Beyond Academia 
LinkedIn: How to Build Your Profile and Make the Most Out of It 
Planning a Career Change for Postdocs  
Strategic Job Searching Beyond Academia  
Academic CVs 
Fellowship Applications: Where to Start? 
Fellowships: Preparing a Fellowship Lay Summary 
Fellowship CVs 
Lectureship Applications: Where to Start? 
Research Vision
Fellowships: Preparing Successful Applications

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Cancellation Policy

Information about the required cancellation notices for places on ECRI courses.