Individual Development Plan

Name________________________________
Stu Dent

Date__________________
September 2020

SKILLS ASSESSMENT (completed by student)

STRENGTHS INTERESTS
Statistical analysis Performing research
Public speaking Giving presentations about research
Experimental design Writing scientific manuscripts
Creativity Environmental conservation
Managing data and resources

GOALS
LONG-TERM CAREER GOALS YOU WISH TO PURSUE AND HOW WILL YOU MEET THEM
Find a job posting for a career you are What are incremental Goal
What are you curious steps you'll need to take Completion
interested in. What are the required skills Completion Date (Act.)
about? you need to develop further? to get to your end goal? Date
Build your ladder

Understanding Analyzing workloads, developing As a senior team August

and implementing annual work or member, handle
how climate scheduling and annual 2022
change will business plans. work plans
At least one year of specialized
impact local experience- must include Write and submit a
wetlands and knowledge of the principles and grant February
agriculture theories of soil and water 2023
conservation and related sciences Plan and implement
year-long research
such as biology, agronomy, and
project around
May 2024
forestry, in identifying conservation identifying
related problems conservation related
Writing grant proposals problems

SHORT-TERM NEEDS FOR DEVELOPING SKILLS AND INTERESTS

Prioritize the skills you Goal
Specifically, how are you going to Where can you develop Completion
need to develop. What can
you accomplish first, or what acquire these skills? (training, courses, these skills? Are there Completion
is absolutely necessary? teaching, job shadow, informational interview) multiple places? Date Date (Act.)

Business -Request to serve on my team's Within my research Oct 31,

planning and budget committee team 2020
budgets -Job shadow my advisor during a Dec 1,
staff meeting 2020
-Through OGS
workshop.
Learn about -Take the grant writing working January
-I talk to others who
grant writing -Informational interviews with 2021
have written grants,
different people who've been both in my
awarded grant funding department and May 2021
elsewhere

SRP program
Mentoring Mentor undergraduate SRP through department August
student and OGS 2021
OTHER FACTORS TO CONSIDER
What career pressures What type of environment List three people “living
What questions do you have your future” who you could
do you currently would you like to work in? Are
experience? certain factors nonnegotiable? about the career you selected? contact for informational
interviews or job shadowing

Family Something where I split Robin Woods at USDA

expectations to my time between an
complete Ph. D. office and field work. Jay Bird at OECD

Need to find a I need to find a job June Sparrow at EA

career that will that's flexible because I Engineering Science
support my family take care of my and Technology
financially grandmother.

I need to find a local

job as long as my
grandmother lives with
me.

COMMENTS FROM ADVISOR / OTHER COMMENTS

Student’s signature and date: ________________________________________________________________

Advisor’s signature and date: ________________________________________________________________

Adapted with permission from Case Western University Office of Postdoctoral Studies