Are you looking to explore your career opportunities? There are several toolkits that can help you with your orientation. If you are generally exploring what you would like or not within a research career, try the 'No limits' toolkit. If you are exploring a career outside academia, but are not sure which field would be interesting, try REBECA PRACTICE.
'No Limits' toolkit
The career orientation tool is named 'No limits', it is a toolkit for researcher which higlights the resources that can help you. The toolkit helps you to:
- identify what's important for you in your career;
- plan to build on your skills and knowledge;
- consider a wide range of career options;
- make a plan to reach your professional development goals.
The toolkit includes advice, quizzes to help you explore your own needs and links to resources, information and opportunities.
REBECA PRACTICE
Discover REBECA PRACTICE, a tool that gives early-career researchers the opportunity to explore professional roles other than the academic researcher role. This tool will allow users to perform tasks that professionals at different job positions perform regularly. This, together with a narrative that creates a role play scenario, will simulate a job position.
By practicing you will learn about a professional role, you will become aware of any necessary skills and attributes needed to excel in these tasks, and, most importantly, you will learn about your preferences towards it.
The purpose of this experience is not to upskill or evaluate readiness for a profession. The intention is that you experience a profession in a simulated scenario, helping you to decide if you like a profession based on their daily activities or not. With this experience, you can effectively direct your future steps in career exploration.