When you are doing a PhD or research master’s, your main focus is – understandably – getting that all-important thesis work done. But, in the right environment you can build plenty of other skills and behaviours that will stand to you in your future career, whatever that might be.
That was the message yesterday from the launch of the new Enrich framework at Dublin City University (DCU), which will offer graduate students the opportunity to identify and build skills and practical experience for the road ahead.
The framework is designed to encourage graduate students to spend time in a professional setting outside the university, to ‘tune into’ the conversations about enterprise going on in DCU, and take accredited modules that develop skills and mindsets such as entrepreneurial thinking, professionalism, self-confidence, project planning, communication methods and cultural awareness.
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