The Individual Development Plan (IDP): Strategically Navigate Your Scientific Career
Career Planning Workshop for Graduate Students & Postdocs using myIDP from Science News
Monday, May 19, 2014, 10:30am-12:30pm, Rm 37-212
Taught by myIDP co‐author Cynthia Fuhrmann, PhD
Register on CareerBridge: https://www.myinterfase.com/mit/student
Prior to attending the workshop, take the skills, interests, and values self-assessment exercises found in myIDP online here:http://myidp.sciencecareers.org/
Navigating toward your future can be daunting. Whether pursuing the tenure track or another career path, today’s scientist faces a competitive job market that rewards productivity in the lab, stellar communication skills, a strong professional network, and professional confidence. Creating an Individual Development Plan (IDP) is one way to help you strategically work toward these goals.
AAAS’s Science Careers’ myIDP is an online tool for helping you create an IDP. In this workshop, you will use the results from your myIDP self-assessments, to
(a) evaluate your career options
(b) customize your professional networking strategy to learn more about your top choice careers, and
(c) engage your mentors in career-related discussions.
Learn practical strategies for how to set goals tailored to your own skills development and career advancement needs. This interactive workshop will propel you toward the next step along your career trajectory.
Biography: Cynthia Fuhrmann, Ph.D. is Assistant Dean, Career & Professional Development in the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS), where she leads the university’s NIH‐funded career development programs. Dr. Fuhrmann transitioned to UMMS from University of California, San Francisco, where she founded the Preparing Future Faculty program and oversaw development of professional skills programs and resources for biomedical scientists.
Dr. Fuhrmann received her Bachelors degree in Chemistry from University of California, Davis and her Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from UCSF. As a graduate student and during postdoctoral training, she studied enzyme mechanisms using ultra‐high resolution x-ray crystallography. Her scholarly interests now focus on the career development of graduate students and postdoctoral scholars in the biomedical sciences. Her research has been highlighted in Science, Nature Careers, NIH Biomedical Workforce Working Group Report, Inside Higher Ed, the Chronicle of Higher Education,and Tomorrow’s Professor. She co-authored and coordinated technical development of myIDP (http://myIDP.sciencecareers.org), an interactive career-planning website launched by Science Careers with funding from AAAS and the Burroughs Wellcome Fund.