Early Career Research Fellow Application
For very early career (few years after your PhD), most people will value signs that you are carrying good research independently of your Phd advisor. You gained you PhD, and presumably you did good (because you found jobs since then, you haven't left academia). Now, as an early career scientist, you need to show that you can design, implement and manage your own research projects. Basically, they want to see you as a leader with high potential.

So, in general these are the most watched points:


is the candidate able to put up a good and coherent research project, explaining its context and impact
did the candidate publish without his advisor?
did she mentor/advise (or even work with) younger students?
has she created new collaborations?