For finishing-PhD students and Early Career Researchers in Switzerland, a resource of websites for non-academic and academic jobs, in CH and also EU.
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Hi, I’m Pauline, on this blog I share information and tips for Early Career Researchers. I completed my PhD in Switzerland, to know more about me, have a look at the About page 😃 🇨🇭🧠🔬🎓
I am writing about #soft skills (transferable skills), #career and #mental health. More about that in my first blog post: How a doctoral program saved my PhD.
I like summarizing and organizing information, make sure to have a look at my resources. Especially if you’re in Switzerland, check out all my articles about #career like this one: Career Services for PhDs in Swiss Universities and HE 🇨🇭
I’ve also been writing about project management applied to academia, here my resource providing an overview of different tools available.
You might also be interested in the Highlights of a review about the PhD experience (Sverdlik et al., 2018). This is my most successful blog post with over 6.000 views within 24 hours!! 👀 🤯
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- I sorry that I am too busy with my main job and trying to keep a healthy private life, all of which doesn’t leave me much time for this blog! I hope you can still enjoy my old posts 🙂
- This blog is my (former) independent activity, it is fully independent from the university I am working with now and from the universities I used to work for. In other words, opinions my own 😉
Most Recent Blog Posts:
Online Resources for PhD Students’ Career Development during Covid-Lockdown
Check what’s still available in Switzerland, then turn to Online Self-Assessing Tools and more Online Career Resources for PhD students and other Early Career Researchers
Shut Up & Write events in Switzerland
Shut Up & Write events in Geneva, Lausanne, Fribourg, Bern and more! Write on your PhD thesis or science paper with other people and good coffee 🙂 read more here…
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Career
General info about Academic Funding for ECR in Switzerland
To answer your career questions about funding in Switzerland, get to know about the grant office in your uni, the Euresearch, the SNF, the myScience.ch website.
You’re an academic facing unemployment in Switzerland? The BNF is here to help you
First some words about unemployment (ORP/RAV), then about the BNF program which has “20 years of experience in supporting academics” at “career crossroads” !
3 Academic Career Programs for Women Researchers in Switzerland
In Suisse Romande: the REGARD program and a mentoring program. For ETH: the Fix the Leaky Pipeline program. More programs in Bern, Basel, Lausanne. From Equality Offices.
Career Services for PhDs in Swiss Universities and HE
Career Services for PhD students and postdocs in: Uni Basel, Uni Bern, Uni Fribourg, Uni Geneva, Uni Lausanne, EPFL, Uni Luzern, Uni Neuchatel, Uni St Gallen, Uni Zurich, ETHZ
Mental Health
What is the mental health crisis in academia?
What is the mental health crisis everyone talks about in academia?
The taboo around this subject is so strong, but awareness is already increasing 🙂
Coaching program for PhD Students in Fribourg (CH)
The Centre Did@cTIC of UniFr offers professional coaching training to its PhD students, with group and individual coaching sessions, in English, for free!
Highlights of a review about the PhD experience (Sverdlik et al., 2018)
highlighting the points which strike me the most in the review about the “factors influencing PhD students’ completion, achievement, and well-being”
Checklist to clarify supervisor and PhD student expectations
Clarifying PhD expectations with this checklist of questions to ask if you’re a PhD student, or points to discuss with your student if you’re a supervisor
Soft Skills
Project Management resource for PhD students and supervisors
Project management is about supervisors and PhD students finding a way to work together. Find here a resource with interesting blog posts and free templates.
Guidelines to draw a timeline of your PhD
Gantt charts are a highly visual medium to foster project management discussions with your supervisor. Download my free Excel template and draw your PhD timeline
Are Gantt charts useful for PhD students?
Are Gantt charts useful for PhD students? Yes and no. To draw your PhD timeline or to plan the next 2 months, stay flexible and realistic, adjust with time
Let’s try to plan a realistic To-Do list for the week
How to plan a realistic To-Do list? Plan only 60% of the week and clarify what you truly “need to have” done versus the “nice to have”. Time and project management