Faculty of Life Sciences, UoM Alumni, Careers Talk

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Short talk (11mins) giving tips and insights for a career in public engagement, media and education to life sciences graduates and undergraduates.

Transcript of Faculty of Life Sciences, UoM Alumni, Careers Talk

erinma ochu

Call for proposals: http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/News/2013/News/WTP051542.htm

Global Media Reach: 62.4 million

See: http://www.turingsunflowers.com/results/media

“A creative social catalyst that makes a difference to society, helps people to achieve their social goals and lives by those same values”

Getting there• Vision – 5 years time?• Reality – what’s your current reality?• What’s your journey to get there? • Your are your roles & actions in this?• Passion: believe in realising that vision• Get support – coach/ mentor/ peers• Help, engage & inspire others• Seek opportunities:

http://www.engagement.manchester.ac.uk/resources/index.html

WORK

Oblique strategies

• What most recently impressed you? What can you learn from it?

• Back up a few steps, what else could you do?

• Instead of changing the thing itself (i.e. you, change the world around it)

• Disconnect from desire to achieve

Woman with 24 problems•Failure•Ethics & Social responsibility•Telling Stories•KISS

1.Connect & listen

2.Creative & fun

3.Remain open to influence

4.Be diplomatic

5.Give back >>>>>>>>>>>>

Thanks for listening… & good luck!

Erinma Ochu: erinma.ochu@manchester.ac.uk