Managing Your Career - Handling Dissertation and Career Entry: Career Planning Strategies in & outside Academia in Germany and Beyond

Workshop Description

The interactive workshop will start with a round of participants’ interests, motivations and needs, followed by an input of post-graduation career options and requirements within academia and the private sector.

Where applicable, participants will be invited to share and reflect on their previous internship/work experience which will then be contextualised with a short overview of the private sector job market in Germany and possibly other European/non-European countries. Depending on participants’ profiles, there will be a collection of personal career planning activities already undertaken as well as showcasing a LinkedIn profile and/or an exemplary employer application process.

The last section of the workshop will be dedicated to participants’ individual questions in small groups.

The workshop will be given via ZOOM, an invitation will be forwarded via email after registration.