Overqualified
Applications as an overqualified person are challenging to write. How do you ease the employer’s fear that you will quickly leave again and be perceived as appropriately ambitious?
Jumping Higher Than Required: The Value of Early Grant Applications
The Value of Early Grant Applications.
Does applying for a small travel grant make sense even if the professor has enough third-party funding?
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Who cares about the poster prize?
We often perceive the poster as a compulsory exercise. To be allowed to attend conferences, we usually have to contribute – the poster is considered the low-threshold version of the prestigious lecture. Why does industry attach such importance to it?
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Frustrating applications
It happens surprisingly often that a position is advertised that doesn’t even exist – or that there is someone who will get the position, regardless of how strong the other applicants are. “How can you tell that there is an insider, so you have no chance from the start and could save yourself time?” I ask the group.
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Grant writing
Scholarships, travel grants, and fellowships are more than just academic support—they’re your ticket to success in any field. Whether you’re aiming for academia, industry, or NGOs, securing funding is highly valued everywhere.
Time and career management for scientists
In our time management workshop for scientists, you´ll learn that every week has 7 days, 168 hours or 10080 minutes…. a lot of time to do a lot of things! Still, many of us suffer from the feeling of always having too little of it. You might not give it enough thought on how to distribute it between your career, family, friends and hobbies.
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Social media for scientists
LinkedIn, Researchgate, and Instagram: We will learn about these integral networking tools for digital science communication in this workshop.
For scientists, social media platforms have become an integral networking tool for connecting globally, exchanging research ideas, and advancing careers. But what’s the proper way for scientists to use these platforms?
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Chemists get a doctorate
“Chemists get a doctorate! If you don’t like that, drop out!” First-year students are still greeted with such words. Is that still up to date? 25 years after the Bologna reform was signed, are Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees still not established as professional qualifications in chemistry?
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Social Media
In a seminar on self-marketing, we discuss the use of social media. “It might be a nice way to pass the time, like feeding ducks or watching Netflix.” “…everyone has to decide for themselves which century they want to live in.”
Negotiation
In this negotiation workshop, you´ll learn about salary, contract, and other negotiations using the Harvard Negotiation Principles.
Negotiations are a crucial success factor for all types of careers, no matter if we negotiate about salary, contracts, working conditions or when trying to solve a conflict. Some people are afraid of negotiations or dislike them for fear of having to be sleazy in order to ‘win’.