Your career
“Most of us spend more time planning our annual holiday than our career.”
Innes Henry.
Finding the perfect career for you is unlikely to happen by just sitting back and waiting for it to come to you. You need to take control of your own career: not only will no-one else do it for you … would you really want them to?
It is really important to take time out to think about what you want and to plan how you are going to get there. These pages should help you to make a start, providing links to various sources of information and help which you might find useful during the process.
In addition, there are a couple of other career-focused websites which you may want to visit:
- Vitae the national organisation championing the personal, professional and career development of researchers.
- The University of Bristol Career Coaches have helped many research staff over the last eight years. Visit the Career Coaching web pages to book an appointment or to browse the information on there.
You may also like to look at the university's own jobs website.
As a member of research staff, broadly you career options fall into three categories:
Whatever career you are interested in, these are three key areas which you need to think about: