• Making Job Applications (CVs, cover letters and application forms)
• Interviews for Jobs Outside Academia
• Interviews for Academic Jobs
• Interviewing for Lectureships
• Lectureship Applications: What You Need to Know to Be Successful
• Lectureship CVs: What you need to be working towards now to succeed now 5 years
• Preparing Successful Fellowship Applications

Pop-up workshops are short, interactive sessions designed to deliver bite-size, timely, targeted information on a range of themes that will be helpful for your careers. They are advertised each month in the PFDC’s newsletter. Past workshops include:

• Academic CVs
• Cover Letters
• Departmental CV clinics
• Interviews
• Job Search Toolkit
• Making Career Decision Toolkit
• Non-academic CVs
• Pathways to Impact
• Writing Lay Summaries

• An extensive list of Early Career Fellowships
• Funders Showcases
• Preparing Successful Fellowship Applications
• Mock interviews
• Sign up to be a Mock interviews panellist to have the opportunity to see 'the other side of the table'.
• One-to-one meetings
• Tip sheets on Academic CVs, International Job Search, Skill Based CVs, Chronological CVs and Cover Letters

• Careers Service offers appointments with advisers, events, and a well-stocked information room
• Grant proposal development is available via WorkTribe
• The Research Office lists golden rules for applying for grants  
• Post-award golden rules are also available from the Research Office

The PFDC has compiled useful links on UK support for researchers, searching for a job or funding, and careers websites, among others. Highlights include:

• Jobs.ac.uk - Listings for jobs in Higher Education in the UK and beyond. Most UK institutions seem to advertise here so make it your first port of call for a UK higher education job hunt. Search by location or field of expertise. Sign up for daily or weekly job alerts and upload your CV.
• Nature Jobs – International science and science-related job listings, both academic and non-academic. Sign up for the newsletter and search by keyword and location.
• New Scientist Jobs – Science and technology jobs, courses and careers advice for both academic and non-academic positions. Browse by discipline, upload your CV, and sign up for email alerts.
• Idox Research Connect - The College has a subscription to Idox ResearchConnect, an online provider for research funding information offering a searchable database of funding opportunities with the option to subscribe to alerts.
• Times Higher Education – UK listings for Higher Education jobs. Not many advertisements for researcher jobs – the majority tend to be management, lecturers or administrators.
• University Researchers and the Job Market written by the Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services (AGCAS).