The purpose of this workshop is to create consensus-based guidelines with recommendations to implement career-tracking surveys of PhD holders.
‘Career tracking’ has become increasingly recognized as a necessary monitoring tool to map PhD graduate career paths and evaluate the PhD skills training. It is a useful and efficient tool for producing high-quality data concerning PhD employability and it also fosters increasing interaction with and exposure to the non-academic sector. As part of its project, DocEnhance implemented its career-tracking survey on PhD graduates among nine partner universities in 2021. Its main findings are freely accessible here. DocEnhance has also issued a report on good practices for implementing a career-tracking survey among PhD graduates.
It is proposed to develop a CWA on the good practice for implementation of a career-tracking survey for post-graduates due to the following reasons:
- need for producing high-quality data concerning PhD employability and skills training;
- collect feedback from PhD holders working in the academic and non-academic sectors to continuously update training curricula;
- track the quality of doctoral education and the relevance of PhD curricula;
- stimulate interactions through PhD’s networking (alumni);
- implementation of career-tracking survey for individual higher educational institutions (HEIs) awarding doctoral degrees;
- intended to be used by doctorate awarding organisations wishing to collect information on the employability and skills usage of their doctorate graduates;
- development of a practical guide for European and non-European universities, who may wish to implement career-tracking studies.
The kick-off meeting will be organised online by CEN on 15 November 2022, 9:30-12:00 CET.
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