Career Paths into Industry – 18/19 July 2016

Working and conducting research in academia offer a lot of opportunities for networking and career planning. Today, the concept of a “job for life” is not valid in many professions and companies. However, as a highly skilled and qualified researcher there are a lot of career opportunities in economy and industry. Scientists should be able to transform their capabilities into job-oriented skills and career possibilities to connect themselves with potential employers. Career planning is as vital as planning experiments. Researchers need to be familiar with their skills, should know how to establish their own brand with self- marketing and develop a strategic view on the career landscape to be successful. The most important action researchers can do themselves is to take the lead in their career planning.

In this workshop, participants learnt the rules of self-marketing, started to develop a first draft of their own skills profile as a basis for managing their careers, learnt about career-oriented networking, and developed an initial draft of their envisioned career paths. The workshop provided them with information, tools, and resources to assist in career planning, with a focus on job opportunities in industry.

Target audience

Doctoral students

Topics

First day (18. July):

• Skills Audit: the PhD in the CV
• Self-marketing: being a competitor in the career market
• Developing an individual Comprehensive Skills‘ Profile
• Job profiles and opportunities in industry and economy
• Application processes, job interviews and assessment centers: what is important
• Enhancing employability: responsibilities and approaches
• Roadmap to career planning: steps and milestones on the way to a job

Second day (19. July)

• Individual advisory (45 min each participant)

Methods

• Theory Input
• Groupwork, role plays
• Reflective praxis with coaching- techniques
• Individual advisory

Terms and Applications

First day (18. July):

Time: 9am-5pm
Group size: maximal 8
Workshop language: English
Venue: Resarch Academy Leipzig, Burgstr. 21, 04109 Leipzig SR: 1.11

Second day (19. July):

Individual advisory, time and venue will be selected at July 18th

Lecturer

Dr. Christine Issa – SAMIN oHG

Registration for the course completed.