At LSE, we're passionate about helping you achieve your career goals .
To achieve these goals, it may be necessary for you to develop new skills, gain experience and knowledge of a new discipline, or undertake a qualification.
Set out below, are the various opportunities and resources available at LSE to aid you in this journey.
Mentoring is one person sharing their knowledge, skills and experience to assist others to progress in their careers.
Mentors are prepared to offer help as the need arises - within agreed bounds. Mentoring is rather more than ‘giving advice’, or passing on what your experience was in a particular area or situation.
LSE has a formal mentoring scheme for Professional Service Staff. To find out more, please visit our dedicated mentoring webpage.
Professional services job shadowing is where an individual from one area of the School has the opportunity to work alongside and gain experience of the role of another individual, and gain an insight into that particular work area.
To find out more, please visit our dedicated job shadowing webpage.
Secondments give professional services staff the opportunity to broaden their skills and knowledge by undertaking a fixed-term role in a different team or area of the School.
To find out more, please visit our dedicated Secondments webpage.
The Career Development Review Scheme (CDR) for professional services staff is an annual review designed to allow you and your line manager to set objectives, review performance against the last year’s objectives, explore development needs and discuss career aspirations.
You can find out more on our dedicated CDR webpage.
There are lots of ways as a manager you can support career and professional development for your staff. Find out more about stretch assignments, delegation and much more on our supporting further development page.
Career Development Toolkit
LSE - and Higher Education in general - offers a great opportunity for a long and full career. The Career Development Toolkit sets out a range of advice, guidance and practical tools to help successfully navigate and plan your career.
You can access the different sections of the toollkit in the links below.
To support the toolkit, we've also developed a range of micro and eLearning, unpacking the topics in the toollkit in more detail.
Topics covered in the learning pathway include creating a career development plan, writing applications, interviewing, leveraging your strengths and developing a professional network.
You can find this pathway under self-enrol courses on our Astute Learning Platform.
Click here to find an introduction to the Career Development Toolkit, setting out what you will find in it and how to use it.
Click here to access this section, which sets out the options available to you to support developing your career. It also has a number of case studies showing how current LSE staff have used these options to develop their own careers.
Click here to access a range of practical advice for understanding job descriptions and person specifications, writing your CV and covering letters and attending interviews.
For roles in Academic Administration, we've set out a summary of the role, the main knowledge, skills and experience required, the key personal attributes and the relevant training available to help develop the key requirements for the role. Click here to see what these pathways look like.
These role maps can be used to put together a Personal Development Plan for how you might develop yourself to be in the best place you can to get your next role
Click here to find answers to the popular questions people have about developing their careers.
If you have any further queries about professional or career development, do not hesitate to contact a member of the Organisational Learning team at hr.learning@lse.ac.uk