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How to have a fun, successful and fulfilling career

To have a successful and fulfilling career, you need to focus on more than just your academic development.  You need to know what options are available.  You need someone you can trust to  bounce your ideas off and to offer impartial advice.   You need to know how to network for both professional and personal gain.  You need to explore what ‘success’ means for you.

A mentor can be a great help.  But how to do you go about finding one?  The TRI Mentoring and Development Committee is launching its program at the Tuesday Seminar on 5 May 2015 between 12.30pm and 1.30pm.  There will be a range of speakers talking about their experiences from students and early career researchers, who are struggling to begin careers, through to TRI’s CEO and Director of Research, Prof Carolyn Mountford, who believes that researchers should, at the very least, do an internship with a private organisation and consider a career that is not so reliant on public funding.  There will also be a clinician scientist and an expert on commercialising research.

Following this launch, you can register to be a Mentor or Mentee using your website profile, access information on TRI and external events aimed at helping you find the right Mentor and information relevant to a career in research and related fields.

There will be lunch available prior to the Seminar, starting from 12 noon, in the Atrium outside the auditorium.  

For more information about the Mentoring and Development program, contact Stephen Mattarollo at [email protected]

 

Event Schedule

12pm: lunch
12:30pm – 1:30pm: A series of 10-15min talks

  1. Steve Mattarollo (Chair of TRI mentoring & development committee) 
  2. Carolyn Mountford (CEO – TRI) 
  3. Craig Belcher (Uniquest)
  4. Ranjeny Thomas / Helen Benham (UQDI)

REGISTER YOUR INTEREST

If you’re interested in becoming a mentor for the 2015 Mentoring & Development Program, or seeking a mentor to help with your career and study, please visit your profile on the TRI Intranet & select the ‘yes’ button under the ‘Career Development Program Mentor’ heading. An extra section will appear allowing you to select your area of expertise or add one of your own. 

http://www.tri.edu.au/user

  1. Login using your TRI username and password
  2. Click the 'edit' tab which appears after you login
  3. Scroll through the profile fields, to about half way down the page, where you'll see a heading "Career Development Program Mentor". Select 'yes' if you wish to be a mentor or be mentored. 
  4. An extra section will appear with a list of specialty areas to select from, with an option to add your own in the 'other' box. Select all options which apply. 
  5. Scroll to the bottom of your profile and press the 'save' button. 
  6. We will be in touch to discuss your mentoring needs!