Doctoral Translation
Being well-prepared is the key to giving a relaxed performance in an interview. This workshop will help participants reduce their stress levels when preparing for interviews through a greater understanding of the types of questions they may be asked, and how they can prepare to answer them.
Participants will learn to use job advertisements as a resource to prepare for interviews long before the pressure of a specific interview is on. While some job advertisements are explicit about the skills being sought, others are far less clearly stated. By looking at the language used in advertisements, participants will start to be able to identify transferable and technical skills and separate these into essential and desirable skills.
Participants will be introduced to competency frameworks and how they are used by organisations as a recruitment and performance management tool. From this understanding, they will learn to prepare short vignette-style stories to describe their experience in relation to competency-based questions using the STAR technique.
Pre-workshop preparation
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Participants will complete an online sorting exercise to classify key transferable skills into a grid relating to enjoyment and level of skill. They will then need to identify what they have done that has given them experience in the areas they enjoy most, which will feed into the preparation of answers using the STAR technique.
They will also need to have a specific job advertisement handy to work on during the workshop. A folder of relevant job advertisements will be provided with the pre-work. They can choose one of these or bring their own.
By the end of the workshop they will be able to:
Describe their PhD project in terms of its ultimate goal(s)
Embrace the process of change in a proactive manner by appropriate planning for risks
Recognise the value of creating a ‘failure-friendly’ mindset,
Create a range of potential options, based on considered analysis
Apply an understanding of ‘sunk-cost bias’ in determining when to move on
Apply an understanding of the psychology of managing change as their PhD evolves.