Career Development
Materials to help you progress your careerWe have collated a range of materials for technical professionals working at all levels to help support their career development and progression.
Let’s Talk About Technicians videos
Our Let’s Talk About Technicians videos feature technicians from higher education talking about their careers and experiences around a particular area or subject.
Let’s Talk About Technicians: Careers in Creative Technical Roles
An opportunity to hear from five technicians working in creative roles. They share their ideas, insights and advice on pursuing technical careers in the creative sector.
This video will help technicians to explore different creative career pathways within higher education.
Speakers:
Heather Burgess, Ulster University
Mike Bayliss, University of Liverpool
Clare Levitt, University of Brighton
Kerry Truman, Nottingham Trent University
Tim Savage, University for the Creative Arts
Let’s Talk About Technicians: Careers in Management and Leadership
A chance to hear from technicians, who have followed a management route. They discuss the hurdles they faced and share advice for having a successful technical career.
This matertial will help technicians to explore different management career pathways within higher education.
Speakers:
Caroline Jarrett, University of Bristol
Suzy Underwood, University of Nottingham
Jiteen Ahmed, Aston University
Let’s Talk About Technicians: Apprentice Careers
An opportunity to hear from three technicians, who started their careers as apprentice technicians. They discuss their career stories including the challenges they have faced and share tips for having a successful technical career.
This video will help technicians on apprenticeships to explore different career pathways within higher education.
Speakers:
Lola Ogunyemi, University of Nottingham
Paul Johnson, University of Warwick
Sophie Galloway, University of Nottingham
Let’s Talk About Technicians: Careers with a PhD
Technical professionals with PhDs share their experiences, insights and advice. They discuss challenges they faced and offer up suggestions on how to develop a successful technical career.
This content will help technicians with a PhD (or working towards one) explore different career pathways within higher education.
Speakers:
Imogen Heaton, Loughborough University
Adriana Flores-Langarica, University of Birmingham
Cecil Cherian Lukose, Northumbria University
Let’s Talk about Technicians: Career Options for Engineering Technicians
A chance to hear from technicians working in engineering-specific technical roles. They share advice and insights plus highlight the challenges they faced as their careers progressed.
This material will help engineering technicians explore different career pathways within higher education.
Speakers:
Benjamin Grew, University of Leicester
Kasia Surowiecka, University of Cambridge
Zac Parkinson, Warwick Manufacturing Group
Xzara Foster, University of Nottingham
Let’s Talk about Technicians: Raising your profile
Technicians share their advice, insights and tips on how they raised their respective profiles..
This video will help technicians to explore how to network and make themselves more visible at a local and national level.
Speakers:
Sarah Bennett, University of Warwick
Peter O’Toole, University of York,
Steve Hindmarsh, University of Warwick
Online workbooks
Our TALENT technician online workbooks are designed to support technicians to think about their personal career development. You can work through the resources in your own time. Each workbook should take approx. 30-45 minutes to complete.