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Preparing a scientific career after a PhD : Information resource on academic careers and postdoctoral competitions
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Mentoring
A mentoring program: why?
The objective is to promote the professional and personal development of BIATSS and scientific staff at IMB, especially women (researchers, engineers,…) at the beginning of their career.
What is mentoring?
Mentoring is the accompaniment of a person by a more experienced one, according to objectives related to his/her personal and professional development.
In concrete terms, how does it work?
The person being mentored and the mentor meet on a regular basis (coffee, meeting) to discuss previously identified points/difficulties.
Who can integrate the program?
All administrative and scientific staff, permanent and non-permanent, can apply for the program.
What are the prerequisites to benefit from the mentoring program?
Have questions about one or more identified topics related to your career or professional environment.
Who can be mentor?
All permanent and non-permanent staff can be mentors. Junior staff can both benefit from the scheme and contribute to it by accompanying a PhD student or post-doc. PhD students can mentor master students.
What is the role of mentors?
Transmit their experience on an identified subject, listen to and answer the mentee’s questions, keep a distance. More details are given at the bottom of the page.
What mentoring is not.
The mentoring program does not aim at coaching or replacing supervisors or team leaders, but rather to provide a complementary perspective that is independent of any hierarchical link.
Who is in charge of making the pairs?
The committee (that will optimize matches based on the needs of the candidates) is currently composed of Karim Belabas, Xavier Caruso, Christèle Etchegaray, Nicolas Papadakis, Dajano Tossici and Lisl Weynans. Any person wishing to integrate the commission is welcome.
What is the timeframe?
There is (for now) one call per year, in October/September. Pairs are made in November. Discussions between mentors and mentees can begin, until November of the following year. Nothing prevents you from requesting the program several times. And above all, nothing prevents you from continuing to have coffee with your former mentor!
More information for mentors.
The mentor is an experienced person who is motivated to offer her/his skills, knowledge and vision of professional life to a younger colleague in order to support her or him in achieving personal and professional goals. It is suggested that the mentor identifies the professional and personal objectives that will be discussed with the mentee, for instance :
- self-confidence
- work-life balance
- knowledge of research institutions
- collaborations, communication, visibility
- career development
- preparation of application files, habilitation thesis
- leadership of a group or team
The mentoring relationship is based on listening (open questions, advice, analysis, outside view, support, synthesis), confidentiality, respect, understanding and of course conviviality!
Conflicts between individuals, private problems (health, ill-being), and professional crisis situations are outside the scope of mentoring and must be addressed by asking for help from the appropriate contacts in the institute: management, human resources, doctoral school, harassment services, medicine, etc.
