Lectures and seminars Career Webinar #3: Networking & LinkedIn Strategies for Scientists (VT26)
How can a strong professional network support your academic and career development? Join us in this webinar to discover how LinkedIn can be used as a professional development tool to strengthen visibility and expand your network.
This webinar will focus on building and growing a professional network, with emphasis on making the most of LinkedIn. Participants will learn the fundamentals of creating an effective profile, along with practical tips to promote their work, access relevant insights, and strategically expand their connections.
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Target Group
PhD students, postdocs and researchers at KI, but everyone is welcome to attend.
Organizers
KI Career service, in collaboration with Chaperone
About Chaperone
Chaperone (www.chaperone.online) is an online platform created to help scientists potentiate their careers. On this platform, students and young professionals can browse and book online 1-to-1 sessions with over 30 experienced career consultants (career specialists, advisors, counselors and coaches) on over 50 different support topics. In addition to online 1-to-1 sessions, Chaperone also provides online group training in the format of workshops or webinars. Chaperone has already supported scientists from over 20 countries, and from prestigious institutions such as EMBL, Barcelona Institute of Technology, CERN, Umea University, Imperial College and more, with an excellent average user rating of 4.9 (out of 5).
About the Speaker
Colby Benari
Colby Benari is an experienced facilitator and public speaker. She draws on her years of experience in academia and aligned organisations to develop engaging and innovative masterclasses that build researchers’ careers. Colby was previously CEO of In2ScienceUK, a leading charity promoting scientific careers to young people from disadvantaged backgrounds. She was Head of the Academic Careers Office at University College London with responsibility for delivering targeted support for UCL’s 11,000 early career scientists. Colby has over ten years of experience supporting biomedical researchers to find mentors, win funding and develop their careers in academia and industry. Colby has previously developed research funding schemes and mentoring programmes for Cancer Research UK and the UK Academy of Medical
Sciences. Colby is dedicated to the charity sector and is a Trustee for the McPin Foundation, which aims to embed people with lived experience of mental health issues in mental health research.
Registration
Registration is REQUIRED.
Please use your @ki.se email when signing up to this event. Information on how to join will be provided upon registration.
Contact
Please contact us at career-service@ki.se if you have any questions regarding this event.
Next Career Webinar
Career Webinar #4: Job Interview Preparation (VT26)