Career support means guidance and inspiration regarding career and the labour market. The goal of the mapping has been to enable the faculty to offer career support to a broad target group, thereby reaching many employees at the Faculty of Medicine as well as people in health and medical care connected to the faculty.
Informed choices
- Career support is needed to help researchers at all stages of their careers to establish themselves and navigate their career paths. By offering a range of activities, guidance and information are provided on, for example, how to qualify, apply for grants and funding, and explore different career paths. The aim is to enable researchers to make informed and well-founded choices that promote their professional development. Such support contributes to creating a strong and sustainable research environment where talent and competence can develop, says Eva Ageberg, Vice Dean.
To benefit many
The Faculty continuously reviews its activities to ensure that investments benefit as many people as possible at the faculty. The Faculty's Career Centre was established in 2013.
- It has not been a centre in an organisational sense, but a name that clarified that support is available for career-related issues. The service has previously mainly been aimed at researchers early in their careers. Now it was time to review the activities carried out within the Career Centre, and to re-map the needs of the organisation based on today's conditions.
Thematic tracks
Based on the needs for career support identified by the working group, five thematic tracks were created, where the faculty mainly offers seminars and workshops. To simplify and clarify career support, the name "Career Centre" is replaced with "Faculty Career Support".
- Some activities remain, and new ones have been added. Previous activities aimed at narrow target groups and a few individuals have been reshaped into what we call "thematic tracks", to include larger and broader target groups.
The five thematic tracks are:
- Funding and grants
- Academic career
- Organisation
- Sustainable working life
- Career outside academia.
We focus on these themes because the working group identified a need for career support in these areas.
Categorizing activities into themes can make it easier for the recipient to understand.
By offering seminars and workshops across five thematic tracks, the support can provide relevant information and guidance to help researchers navigate their career paths.
- Previous activities have been redesigned so that more employees can benefit from the support. Some of the already existing seminars and workshops will continue as before, and new activities will be launched gradually.