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PRODUCTS AND SERVICES
Are
PhD’s
undervalued?
We
think so!
And undervalued by both business and postdocs themselves!
Most
postdocs
have
much
to contribute
to business. But we have 2 challenges:
1.
Business
assumes
PhDs
are limited to posessing a “set
of technical competencies” and not much in the way of people skills,
business knowledge or financial acumen.
2.
Postdocs
have
a
limited business
vocabulary to demonstrate their talent beyond their science and
technical competencies.
SciPhD
seeks
to
bridge
and translate this
PhD Talent Gap by providing postdocs, graduate students and even
business new hires the tools to discover their academic, research and
personal experiences that translate into 24 business competencies.
Let’s deploy the full potential and value of our postdoc population
and accelerate the capacity of business to “on board” and
effectively integrate new hires.
Get That Job! Targeted Resume and
Interview Preparation Service
In response to to numerous
inquiries, SciPhD now offers individualized services to assist
scientists compete for jobs. The service provides mapping of up
to three job descriptions to our 24 core competencies, matching of
those critical skills to experience statements based on results of the
online self assessment which is included, and generation of targeted
resumes. Research on companies utilizing our network, and
individualized coaching will help prepare candidates for the interview
process. Find out more information here.
SciPhD
One Day Workshops
SciPhD offers
one-day
training workshops that bring the critical concepts of the SciPhD core
competencies to scientists. The workshop is typically structured
in three modules.
MODULE I:
1.5 hour presentation introduces the myths and realities of
working in industry. Focus is on the ciritcal skills valued by
industry, how industry perceives academic scientists, and how
scientists can relate their own experiences to the core competencies
valued in industry.
MODULE II:
Self-Assessment: All participants take the
on-line Self Assessment to learn more about each of the 24 core
competencies valued by industry and to self-assess their skiills in
each of these areas. Participants are also guided to develop
experience statements for each competency that can be used
in developing resumes and cover letters, and in preparing for
interviews.
MODULE III:
Concurrent 45 minute workshops that relate core
competencies to job requirements and teach participants how to best
prepare to respond to job offerings.
Workshop
I: Looks at extracting all the valuable information
contained in job ads. Most job ads contain a tremendous amount of
information beyond the scientific/technical requirements for the
job. Learn how to identify and prepare to respond to these other
critical requirements as well as how to identify the implicit
information contained in job ads.
Workshop 2:
Learn to translate the "operational competency"
language typical of job descriptions into the "core competencies" of
SciPhD that form the basis of your industry skill-set. Learn how
to identify your developed core skills and bundle them together into
the operational competency language that businesses understand.
SciPhD
Online Self Assessment
The online
assessment tool introduces 24 core competencies in six major areas that are valued
by industry. The program explains how each of these competencies
relates to typical activities and experiences of academic scientists
and guides the user to evaluate their own strength in each of these
competencies. Brief expereience statements are also constructed
for each competency which become the basis for developing targeted
resumes and cover letters, and become the foundation in preparing for
interviews. A detailed report is generated at the completion of
the assessment that includes all scores, experience statments, and a
graphical representation of how the student's scores match the demands
for different types of jobs in different types of companies. The
six major areas that the 24 competencies encompas are "Creating the
Vision", "Developing People", "Productivity", "Achieving Results",
"Communications", and "Financial Acumen".
SciPhD
Career
Development
for
Businesses
SciPhD will work with your career
development office to proivde a program for recent hires that
identifies their competencies and uses that information in creating a
career path that maximizes their skills while encouraging their
contimued development consistent with the corporate mission. A
combination of the SciPhD self-assessment tool, custom developed
training modules, and mapping of the SciPhD core competencies to
existing continuing education both within the company and at local or
online resources are used to create an effective program to maximize
employee impact and improve retention.
SciPhD
Custom
Training
Programs
SciPhD will develop customized
training and certificate programs based on mapping the operational
competenices critical to your organization to customized core
competencies. SciPhD will work with local, regional and online
educational resources to develop programs that meet your needs.
Examples include the Chief Science Officer Training Course certificate
program that was developed in collaboration with Montgomery College,
The Federal Laboratory Consortium, The Federation for the Advancement
of the Sciences and the Montgomery County Department of Economic
Development.
The inaugural class of 20 students graduated on April 9th, 2011.
The next CSO training certificate program is scheduled to start June
4th. Registration is now open!
SciPhD
Live
Webinars
SciPhD staff are available to
deliver live webinars supported with followup on-line discussion
groups on any topics of interest related to preparing for careers in
industry and being successful in those careers. Topics include
networking, competency training, preparing for job searches, and career
planning.
For more information contact us at info@sciphd.com
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