{"id":3717,"date":"2019-05-24T05:53:33","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T11:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/?p=3717"},"modified":"2019-05-24T05:53:33","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T11:53:33","slug":"resource-of-the-week-science-careers-and-individual-development-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/2019\/05\/24\/resource-of-the-week-science-careers-and-individual-development-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Resource of the Week: Science careers and individual development plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3718\" style=\"width: 325px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/myidp.sciencecareers.org\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3718\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3718 img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement-preprod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2019\/02\/Capture-5.jpg\" alt='Screenshot of a cartoon on the website homepage: man in lab coat, holding clipboard with checklist, looks up with surprised expression at a \"which way to go\" road marker with thirteen different career option signs pointing in different directions. Options range from research and biotech to sales writing and startup.' width=\"315\" height=\"585\" srcset=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2019\/02\/Capture-5.jpg 315w, https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2019\/02\/Capture-5-162x300.jpg 162w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 315px) 100vw, 315px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3718\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screenshot from website<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to their website, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/myidp.sciencecareers.org\/\">myIDP provides<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Exercises to help you examine your skills, interests, and values<\/li>\n<li>A list of 20 scientific career paths with a prediction of which ones best fit your skills and interests<\/li>\n<li>A tool for setting strategic goals for the coming year, with optional reminders to keep you on track<\/li>\n<li>Articles and resources to guide you through the process\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>myIDP is hosted by the American Academy for the Advancement of Science. myIDP is sponsored by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, the University of California-San Francisco, Medical College of Wisconsin, and the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 According to their website, \u201cmyIDP provides: Exercises to help you examine your skills, interests, and values A list of 20 scientific career paths with a prediction of which ones best fit your skills and interests A tool for setting strategic goals for the coming year, with optional reminders to keep you on track Articles and resources to guide you&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5469,"featured_media":3718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2,15,16],"tags":[43,53,57,58,81,87,113,114,115,117,150],"class_list":["post-3717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-careers-beyond-academia","category-news-blog-scicomm-by-scientists","category-resource-of-the-week","category-resources","tag-advancing-science-communication","tag-blog-post","tag-career-advice","tag-careers-beyond-academia","tag-handy-links","tag-inspiration","tag-resource","tag-resource-of-the-week","tag-resources-2","tag-scicomm","tag-transition-to-scicomm-career"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5469"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}