Assess and promote your skills

Summary

In an increasingly competitive job market, the ability to identify, formulate and promote one’s skills is a key lever for employability. For doctoral candidates and early-career PhDs, it is essential to go beyond merely describing their research experiences and to highlight the knowledge, know-how, and interpersonal skills that can be transferred to other professional environments. This training offers a process of self-reflection and translation of these competencies into language that is understandable to recruiters, enabling participants to better align their profile with the expectations of the socio-economic world.

The main objectives of this training are to enable participants to:

• Understand the concept of skills and their components (knowledge, know-how, and interpersonal skills)
• Identify and analyse your transferable skills
• Be able to express and promote their skills to recruiters

Program

Module 1: Understanding the the notion of competencies

• Break down skills into knowledge, know-how, and interpersonal skills
• Understand the importance of the concept of skills in human resource management in companies
• Discover the importance of highlighting your own skills when interacting with a recruitment specialist

Module 2: Identifying Your Own Skills

• Analyze your various experiences
• List the skills developed during different experiences
• Discover the transferability of skills and imagine other environments in which to apply them

Module 3: Expressing and Highlighting Your Skills

• Translate your skills into the vocabulary of recruitment specialists
• Summarize and illustrate all identified skills with concrete examples
• Identify the skills to highlight based on the context
• Market your skills and work on your differentiation factors
• Express your skills in relation to your project to a recruitment specialist

Trainers

Jeanne Boisselier, PhD – Researcher and Trainer

Eric Bonetto, PhD – Researcher and Trainer

Sophie Bouccara, PhD – Researcher, Consultant, and Trainer

Alexandre Bran, PhD – Deputy Head of LID and Trainer

Hiba Melhem – Recruitment Consultant and Trainer

Catherine Roudé, PhD – Training Manager and Trainer

Eva Soteras, PhD – esearch Valorisation Officer and Trainer

Informations

Dates and practical information :

• Email (training contact) : formation@adoc-tm.com
• Provisional date : February 18, 2026, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

• Location : Université Paris Cité – 4 rue Elsa Morante – 75013 PARIS – salle 054A – Bâtiment Condorcet
• Duration : 1 day (7 hours)