What Can You Be with a PhD

Outi Tolonen, Expert, PhD

Competence Development Services

North Ostrobothnia Employment and Economic Development Office

Outlines

• TE-services

• Career planning

• Career paths for PhDs

• Job hunting

• My career

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Jobs at TE-palvelut.fi

TE Services

Labour market training

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New Entrepreneurs

• TE-services for new entrepreneurs

• Information and advice

• Training

• Start up grant

• Cooperation partners

• Oulun Seudun Uusyrityskeskus

• BusinessOulu

• Finnvera

• Tekes

• Enterprise Finland

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Start up grant

• The purpose of a Start up grant is to encourage new businesses and promote employment

• You may be eligible for the grant if

• you are an unemployed jobseeker

• you are not unemployed, but you are setting up as a full-time entrepreneur after a period in paid employment, education or domestic work

• Preconditions for receiving the grant include

• being a full-time entrepreneur

• having adequate capabilities for the intended business

• having potential for continued profitable operation

• the grant is necessary for the entrepreneur's survival

• the business is only started after the grant has been awarded

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Career planning

• Knowing yourself

• What kind of person you are

• What are you interested in, what motivates you

• Knowing your skills and competences

• What are your special skills, what are you good at

• Job-specific skills, technical skills, transferable skills…

• Knowing your career goals

• What kind of work you want/don’t want to do

• What can you offer for the employer

• Knowing the job hunting process

• Where to find jobs

• How to contact employers

• How to make CV, application, how to succeed in an interview

Planned Happenstance

= be prepared for

unplanned events to

generate career

opportunities

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Career planning

• Transferable skills of a PhD

• Data handling and analyzing

• Problem solving, decision making

• Team-working

• Leadership

• Communication (writing, public speaking)

• Reasearch funding, budget management

• Ability to work in an international environment, language skills, interpersonal skills

It’s about the skills, not the degree

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Career paths for PhDs

• Academic career:

• 4-tier research career

1. Early stage researcher

2. Post-doc

3. Independent researcher, Group Leader, Academy ResearchFellow

4. Professor, Academy Professor, Research Director

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Career paths for PhDs

• Non-academic career

Science

Advisor

Product

Specialist

Coordinator

Patent

Attorney

CSO

Expert

Educator

Science

Journalist

Entrepreneur

Consultant

Innovation

Manager

Key

Account

Manager

Quality

Manager

Business

Development

ManagerCOO

Counsellor

Controller

Scientific

Liaison

Manager

Managing

Director

Managing

Director

Editor

(Senior)

Researcher

Project

Manager

Team

Leader

Market

Analyst

Specialist

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Career paths for PhDs

• Non-academic jobs

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Job hunting

http://te-palvelut.fi/te/fi/erikoissivut/tyopaikkasivut/index.html

http://te-palvelut.fi/te/fi/erikoissivut/ulkomaan_tyopaikkasivut/index.html

Your own networks!

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My Career

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PhD 2006

Univ. of Oulu,

Dept. of Medical

Biochemistry and

Molecular Biology

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Working Life and Business Skills for PhDs

ESF project

Project manager

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