Connecting HDR candidates with industry
The Emerging Industry Leaders Program (EILP) responds to industry demand for PhD-level skills and the increased number of higher degree research (HDR) candidates gaining employment outside of academia.
Participating as an HDR candidate, the program offers you practical career management, employability and leadership skill development training. You will also get to network with business leaders and gain insights into a diverse range of job opportunities.
Program benefits
Strategic career management coaching
Enables you to approach a career in industry with confidence
Multi-discipline team collaboration
Builds capability and communication skills
Self-marketing training
Helps showcase your skills to recruiters and hiring managers
Networking opportunities
Build connections with peers and potential employers
Advantages and opportunities
Participating in the Emerging Industry Leaders Program, you can:
- gain a greater sense of community and motivation to engage in the process of managing your career
- develop a greater understanding of your own strengths and how these can provide clarity of purpose and capability for career development
- develop and demonstrate critical core skills for the future economy, fostering creativity, self-management, influence, collaboration, transdisciplinary thinking and global perspective
- learn strategies to develop and manage professional identity
- develop a greater sense of aspiration and connection to your field of interest and potential future career pathway
- access opportunities to leverage and build on professional connections.
Program overview
The professional development sessions delivered during the program will offer:
- strategic career management training to help approach your career in industry with confidence
- strengths-based coaching to build career clarity and capability
- trans-disciplinary team collaboration activities in a supportive environment, to build in demand critical core skills for the future economy
- self-marketing training to effectively showcase your capability to recruiters and hiring managers
- insights and practical feedback on how to develop an effective networking pitch
- strategies for communicating research value and impact to a broad range of external stakeholders.
EILP in Trimester 1 2025
Wednesday 28 May and 4 June in Brisbane City.
Applications open 4 April, close 25 April at 5pm.
Why join the Emerging Industry leaders program?
Hear from our program participants and leaders.
EILP graduate spotlight: Dr Rebecca Cozens
How do your research skills benefit you in your role outside of academia?
"I use my research skills every day. Examples include analysing quantitative and qualitative data, translating the data to practical insights that can be easily understood by leaders, upskilling the research capabilities of staff members, and providing advice on rigorous research methods to solve organisational
programs. Ultimately, I use my research skills to help the organisation make sound, evidence-based decisions to support workplace improvements."
Why participate in the Emerging Industry Leaders Program?
"PhD candidates are expert problem solvers and critical thinkers and those who are accepted into the EILP are passionate about applying those research skills to industry problems. This program is a great way for industry partners to hear about cutting edge
research and build relationships with the candidates who are leading that research and may make for valuable collaborators in the future."
Dr Rebecca Cozens, Data Analyst, Queensland Police Service
2022 EILP participant and 2023 EILP ambassador in 2023
More career resources
Seeking HDR-specific career support? Our HDR career resources page has a range of tools to aid your career development, including:
- HDR career development consultations
- opportunities for industry mentoring
- HDR career-planning checklists
- HDR career-development events
- links to employability resources and job vacancy websites.
Contact us
For more information or to get involved, contact Deanne Camplejohn