S12: E5 Reframing Your Academic Story | Job Titles, LinkedIn, and the Power of Spin

Careers in Your Ears

If you feel like you need a special dictionary to understand job descriptions or a thesaurus for talking about your skills: this is the episode for you!

Dr Holly Prescott gives us a masterclass in telling your story in a way that will help the sector you are trying to enter understand how valuable your skills, knowledge and experience are - to them.

We also discuss how to navigate the challenge of not knowing all the job titles, how to curate your LinkedIn experience to work for you and an avocado metaphor that is worth the listen alone!

Online careers support for researchers at King's

Holly is a qualified career guidance practitioner who specialises in working with postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers. She is the Careers Adviser for Postgraduate Researchers at the University of Birmingham (where she also gained her own PhD in English Literature in 2011), and also works as a freelance trainer running career development workshops for PGRs and ECRs for a range of universities, institutes and DTPs across the UK and Europe. In 2021 she started the post-PhD careers blog ‘Postgradual’ which has since attracted over 66,000 unique readers, and her book Navigating Careers Beyond Academia: A Practical Handbook for Doctoral and Postdoctoral Researchers is due for publication by Routledge in 2026.

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