1. Academic career development: Career development support for PhD-students and post-docs
Janne Tienari

2. Janne Tienari Professor, Organization and Management
Director of Doctoral Program
School of Business, Aalto University

3. This presentation Aalto BIZ doctoral program in context
Career support for PhD-students and post-docs

4. 1) Aalto BIZ doctoral program in context

5. Aalto University A merger of three leading Finnish higher education institutions
University of Art & Design Helsinki,
founded 1871
Helsinki University of Technology, founded 1849
Helsinki School of Economics, founded 1911 •

6. Aalto schools Art, Design & Architechture Business Chemical Technology
Electrical Engineering
Engineering
Science

7. Context for doctoral education
(Long) transition to a more ’Anglo-American’ model of doctoral education (and academic work) in Finland
Professional PhD-work (4 years); funding model; new academic career models
Synchronizing University and School level policies and guidelines at Aalto (director and coordinator groups)
Admission criteria and selection process; funding model; supervision plan; advisory committees; transferable skills; placement after PhD
Efficiency and cost reduction combined with higher quality

8. Aalto BIZ Doctoral Program
Disciplines (12 in total):
Organization and Management
International Business
Organizational communication
Entrepreneurship
Accounting
Business Law
Marketing
Information Systems Science
Management Science
Logistics
Economics
Finance
Approx. 200 active PhD-students; approx dissertations per year

9. Learning Services – Doctoral Program (TOKO)
Staff: Coordinator (studies)
Responsible for infrastructure and support for PhD-students
Planning and implementation of doctoral education and administrative services
Process owner (administrator) of the funding model for first and second year PhD-students
Curriculum development and core courses
Essential academic skills:
Producing text and giving presentations
Qualitative research: Principles and practices
Quantitative research: Principles and practices
Philosophy of Social Science
Paper development workshop: Qualitative research
Paper development workshop: Quantitative research
Support for (1) doing research, (2) academic writing and (3) crafting article manuscripts

10. Points of development at Aalto BIZ
Recruitment
Clearer admission criteria and (more) competitive selection process
New program structure and content
Tripartite structure (specialization areas: business, economics, finance) under common umbrella
More flexibility for departments and disciplines in terms of content and process
More focus on student-supervisor relationship
E.g. supervision plan; supervisor teams / committees
New criteria for program quality assessment
First position after PhD: top universities across the world?
Common core
Finance
Business
Economics
Differences across disciplines…

11. 2) Career support for PhD-students and post-docs

12. Aalto BIZ: focus on preparing PhD:s for career in academia
Laitoksen nimi
11/11/2018

13. Elements of support
Research
Teaching
”Transferable skills”

14. Research Learning to do research Building a manuscript portfolio
Theories
Methodologies
Empirical work
Building a manuscript portfolio
Several manuscripts at different stages (in progress; under review; under revision)
Variety of journals targeted (”top” journals and others)
Single authored (to show that you are capable of independent work) and
Co-authored (to show that you can collaborate with relevant others)
Specialist or generalist?

15. Teaching Assisting in (developing) courses Lecturing; grading
Pedagogical training

16. ”Transferable skills” (under construction)
Media, communication and presentation skills
Ethics- and integrity-related skills
Project management skills
Leadership skills
Entrepreneurship (self-employment) skills

17. Career coaching; mentoring; wellbeing support

18. Support for life after graduation
Help from supervisor and advisors
Introduce to networks
Encourage conferencing
Co-authoring
Advice in writing CV:s and applications
Advice in preparing for job interviews

19. Aalto Tenure Track New career system based on US models
Key objective: attracting top talent (from outside Finland)
Principle of systematic evaluation: predictability, transparency and comparability

20. However… two ways to understand (academic) career
Hybrid
Hierarchical
Teaching
Service
Research
Consul-tancy
Public debate

21. Q & A