Career Planning - Discover Career opportunities (Part II)

Trainer: Andrea Bosten & Viola Middendorf

Target group
This two-day training (four hours each workshop) is particularly suitable for doctoral students in the late phase of their doctorate and postdocs.

Objectives:
The planning of the next professional steps does not have to be rocket science. But it can be important to take the time to think about yourself in terms of your own skills, values and interests, because the knowledge gained can greatly simplify further career planning. By focusing on your own competences as well as your values, interests and ideal working conditions, it will be possible for you to create new ideas for your future career. It will help you to name your own goal as precisely as possible and to take the first steps towards your preferred future.

Content:

Significance: “What does a career mean to me?” Taking a look back at your professional biography and focus on your values and preferences.
Personal Competences: To know, to prioritize, to express and to proof your main strengths.
Career options in Academia, Industry and Science Management: “What are my professional options?”
Strategic Networking: Focus on how to build up a professional network and to keep it running. “In which way should I handle it differently than before?”

Methods:
• Information and input on different career paths
• Active exchange with other participants and the trainers
• Group work
• Individual work, self-assessments and individual reflection
• Work with various online tools (e.g. Conceptboard, Mentimeter)
• Work with the workbook "Career Planning" of the Career Center

Comments:
In the workshop, you will have the opportunity to work on your career perspectives, get orientation, reflect and discuss with others and develop new ideas. So you should be open to actively participate and share your thoughts in a trusting group environment.

Location: online

Please follow this link for registration.