Guide to Career Development Support
Talent Development has provided links below to a range of information to help you to navigate the wealth of on-line career development resources which are available to you.
You can access a range of resources through LinkedIn Learning
Don’t forget to discuss your career development with your manager and mentor or coach if you have one. The following LinkedIn Learning resource is a helpful guide to these conversations:Career Conversation Guidance for Employees, Career Conversation Guidance for Managers and a LinkedIn video - How career conversations differ from performance reviews | LinkedIn Learning
Please remember that developing your career is an on-going process so build in time to regularly check-in on the health of your career.
Managing your Career
Resources on LinkedIn learning:
LinkedIn Learning has a variety of courses to support you in managing your career.
Careers - Managing Your Career - LinkedIn Learning
The essential career organisation toolkit:
Whether you are just starting out, seeking promotion, looking for a career change or wanting to reshape your work-life balance, this toolkit will help you to explore your career options
Career Organisation Toolkit Jobs.ac.uk
The career development toolkit for higher education professionals:
Careers in Higher Education are changing rapidly as institutions adapt to a global marketplace for students, and as the political and economic landscape becomes more challenging. Traditional career structures are fast disappearing and new areas of work are emerging. This toolkit contains interactive templates and activities to help you to manage your own career development through these turbulent times and to help you to make sure you are best placed to exploit new opportunities.
Career Development Toolkit for HE Jobs.ac.uk
Implementing a job search strategy:
Whether you are a recent graduate, an experienced professional or a career changer, it is worth noting these 5 strategies from jobs.ac.uk.
Implementing a Job Search Strategy
Staying Positive and Productive during Uncertainty:
In this LinkedIn Learning programme you will discover skills and techniques to help you to stay positive and productive in times of change.
Managing Your Productivity and Your Career in a Changing Job Market | LinkedIn Learning
Identifying my career priorities:
Adapted from 'What Colour is Your Parachute' by Richard Nelson Bolles, this simple self-assessment helps you to consider what your priorities are in life. This is a vital first step before you make any career decisions
What-colour-your-parachute-deep-dive-flower-exercise
Development for Research Staff
Specific resources for Researcher Development for Research Staff can be explored here: Researcher Development | Researcher Development for Research Staff
Prosper is an innovative online resource designed to empower researchers to explore their career aspirations and investigate diverse career pathways both within and beyond academia: click on the link to find out more: Researcher Development | Prosper
Development for Professional Services
External resources and tools that can support your professional development in Professional Services, can be found in this link: External Tools | Professional Services | StaffNet | The University of Manchester
Finding a job
Resources on LinkedIn Learning:
LinkedIn Learning has a variety of courses to support you in searching for a job.
Finding a Job collection - LinkedIn Learning
Jobs in the University:
You can search for internal jobs and sign up for job alerts here:
The University of Manchester - Jobs Page
7 habits of successful early career researchers:
Have you got your first job as a researcher? Watch our short video to pick up some good habits to help you get started and become a successful researcher.
7 habits of successful early career researchers - Jobs.ac.uk
Switching Your Career:
This LinkedIn learning course will take you through the various stages of changing your career, offering guidance, advice and activities to help you to make a career switch.
Find fulfilment at work | LinkedIn Learning
Using AI to make a career switch
Developing your CV / Application
How to complete an application form:
This resource from our careers service can be used by students and staff alike. It contains lots of useful information to help you to complete a job application.
Hints and Tips on completing an online application for an internal job in the University.
Application hints and tips | Jobs at The University of Manchester
Matching your skills to the person specification:
This article from jobs.ac.uk, outlines how to match your job application to the person specification.
Preparing for Interview
Resources on LinkedIn Learning:
LinkedIn Learning has a variety of courses to support you in preparing for an interview.
Careers - Preparing for interview LinkedIn
Interview Questions Tool for all types of HE job roles:
If you are invited for an interview, try using this handy questions toolkit to practise a wide range of common interview questions and suggested responses. This will help you to prepare in advance and be equipped to answer a wide range of competency, motivation and biographical questions, whether the interview is for an academic or professional role.
Interview Questions Tool - Jobs.ac.uk
Academic interviews:
These articles from jobs.ac.uk cover every aspect of an academic interview/assessment.
Academic interview tips - Jobs.ac.uk
Tips for dealing with pre-interview nerves:
It is perfectly normal to feel pre-interview nerves since there is a lot riding on the outcome. By following a few simple techniques and preparing properly, you can reduce your stress levels to help you perform to the best of your abilities.
Tips-for-dealing-with-pre-interview-nerves - Jobs.ac.uk
Further resources can be found through our Careers service guide providing a range of guidance and activities to help you to learn to control your nerves when attending an interview or assessment.
Guide to Psychometric tests:
These resources from the careers service are useful to students and staff alike. This comprehensive guidance covers all types of psychometric test that could be used as part of a selection process.
Following on from Interview
Resources on LinkedIn Learning:
LinkedIn Learning has a variety of courses to support you after an interview has taken place.
Following on from an Interview - LinkedIn
Questions to ask when starting a new job:
Explore a number of key questions to ask in your first few days in a new job.
Questions to ask when starting a new job - Jobs.ac.uk