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Enhancing Your CV: Key Factors for Postdoctoral Career Success

This guide outlines essential elements that employers seek on a CV for postdoctoral candidates in chemistry. Key factors include a robust publication record (quantity, quality, and authorship), strong teaching experience (tutorials, project supervision), and securing grants. It emphasizes protecting research ideas through patents and engaging in teaching training and fellowships. The importance of gaining feedback on applications, being proactive, and participating in outreach and networking activities are also discussed to enhance career prospects in academia and beyond.

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Enhancing Your CV: Key Factors for Postdoctoral Career Success

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  1. Beyond the Post-Doc…. Dr Oscar Ces Department of Chemistry Imperial College London UK

  2. What will employers be looking for on a CV? The more things you can tick off in this figure the less you have to prove.......

  3. Publication Track Record • Obvious.... • Quantity and quality • Impact factor/citations • First authorships (or joint) • Corresponding author (or joint) • Patents...often overlooked but emphasize novelty of your research • Talk to IC Innovations • Protect before you publish!! (talks/presentations/web/non-IC staff) • Some journals have specific sections where you can specify each persons contribution (e.g. Science and Nature); make sure your contribution is acknowledged. • 6. Conference presentations • Refereeing papers/proposals

  4. Teaching • Tutorials or small group teaching • Lab demonstrating (+help design an experiment) • Undergraduate project supervision (BSc/MSci/UROP/Socrates) • MRes/PhD supervision • Lecturing (e.g. Masters module?)

  5. Teaching-Training • Post-doc Development Centre offers excellent resources • http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/staffdevelopment/postdocs1/workshops • Courses that cover everything from PhD student supervision to small group teaching to grant writing • Excellent quality • Free • Looks good on CV-shows you are pro-active and might mean you don’t have to do them somewhere else.

  6. Independence-Fellowships • College has generated list of a wide variety (+50) of Fellowships for PDRAs at different levels. • http://www5.imperial.ac.uk/naturalsciences/researchinfo/ • Does not cover university specific fellowships at other institutions (equivalent to IC JRFs • There is no fellowship season-run all year round. • Don’t just apply once-learning experience (ask for feedback) • Start early-some fellowships such as EPSRC Postdoctoral Fellowship require no PDRA experience • Get other PDRAs/academics to read your application. No matter how experienced someone else’s viewpoint can be crucial. • Be bold-current climate is very competitive and “safe” may not sell.

  7. This is a small selection.....

  8. Grants • Not just for lecturers • Publication track record does not necessarily prove you can get your research funded-one of the big unknowns when hiring someone • Many mechanisms for PDRAs to apply for research funding • Appear as a co-researcher on a research council grant • Acknowledges your contribution to the grant writing process • Includes a salary contribution (minimum 50%, up to 100%) • Not the same as a named researcher • Effectively says you are a Co-I but because of your contract status can’t appear as a Co-I • Need to discuss with PI as appearing on the grant as a co-researcher has a cost implication for the grant

  9. Appear on the RCUK websites as a Researcher Co-investigator

  10. Appear on the RCUK websites as a Researcher Co-investigator

  11. Grants Lots of other schemes where you do not have to have a permanent post to apply: (1) Travel grants e.g. International Travel Grants (typically up to £5k) http://royalsociety.org/International-Travel-Grants/ (2) Funding for experiments: Brian Mercer Feasibility Awards(up to £30k) - Allow researchers to test the economic and/or scientific feasibility `of a project for commercialisation http://royalsociety.org/Brian-Mercer-Feasibility-Awards/ Paul Instrument Fund(up to £75k) http://royalsociety.org/Paul-Instrument-Fund/ ((3) Large scale facility access: ISIS, Diamond, ESRF, Equipment transfer

  12. Miscellaneous • UCAS interviews • Organising symposia/colloquia • Outreach activities (Chemistry Taster Days/Pimlico Connection) • “Ownership”-discuss with your supervisor/PI if you can do your own research within the framework of your post-doc (10% of your time?) • AWARDS-put yourselves forwards or ask to be nominated by your supervisor!! http://www.rsc.org/ScienceAndTechnology/Awards/BySubject/index.asp

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