Postdoc Professional Development
Make the most of your postdoc experience through professional development resources, including resources on how to consider your next steps.
Individual Development Plans
Whether you seek to apply your discipline to a plan, or are just looking for a prompt to support reflection, an Individual Development Plan might help you approach the next step in your career journey. Given the breadth of disciplines that find their home at UW, we curate IDP options from broad disciplinary groupings to field-specific tools. Here you can find a selection of IDP resources that might apply to your discipline:
- For postdocs in STEM fields, the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology in partnership with AAAS/Science offers an interactive IDP tool.
- For Humanities and Social Science scholars, the Graduate Career Consortium offers ImaginePhD.com, a tool for planning and career exploration.
- For scholars in Psychology, APA.org offers IDP resources.
Career Options
For those interested in investigating careers outside of academia, the UW Career Center has a number of resources.
For an assessment to help you identify and prioritize values, your preferred work culture, and skills you enjoy, see Stanford University’s Meaningful Work Kit.