What is your departmental hiring unit responsible for?
- Setting up your payroll and employment in University systems
- Assigning your work space/lab and any equipment needed
- Arranging for campus badge ID, key issue, parking permissions, etc.
- Informing you of required training due to your research lab or project
TIP: Find out who your payroll liaison is, or the department administrator, and make that person your friend!
What is the Postdoctoral Office to you?
- Postdoc fellows have an official office on campus dedicated to postdoctoral employment issues - your issues - ensuring more equitable employment parameters and growing services for fellows campus-wide.
- Provides a centralized hub for career-building information and resources.
- Provides and encourages interaction of fellows outside of the lab and across disciplines - with the possibility of fomenting lifelong friendships and collegial collaborations - broadening the postdoc experience and one’s network of contacts.
- Eases the process for grant proposal submission (eventually), by overseeing campus-wide collection of information for a database accessible to all departments.
- PDO Coordinator's Job
How can the Postdoctoral Association help?
- Learn from other postdocs some of the things you need to know. Go to Facebook and ask your questions. Or write to: postdocassociation@ucdenver.edu
- Attend activities and meetings of the local PDA and get to know peers outside of your lab. See the calendar.
Required training you must complete
Tools to use with your mentor:
(For easier copy and fillin, choose the document over the PDF: 
UCD Postdoc IDP/APR form )
1. As soon as you have something on paper, make an appointment to discuss the plan with your mentor and be ready to make adjustments based on his/her veteran advice.
2. Use and adjust this plan throughout your postdoc appointment to measure accomplishments and progress toward career goals.
Why should you do this? See rationale and recommendations from the Postdoctoral Advisory Committee.
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Campus-related contacts and links you’ll need throughout employment
- HR - for questions on individual employment issues, rules, and regulations
- Ombuds - where you can obtain confidential assistance for difficult issues
- PBS - for help with payroll issues and benefits questions
- ORDE - for training and assistance on web research and funding opportunities
- Health Sciences Library - for individual assistance with source searches
- PDO - for employment policy, training, jobs and career information and resources
- Office of Regulatory Compliance for training to comply with federal regs