Interview questions
Let´s look at individual interview questions and what the intention of the interviewer is when they ask you. Take the questions from this handout as exercise and play them through for yourself.
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Salary/contract negotiations
Salary and contract negotiations: Salary benchmarks and what to negotiate about apart from the salary itself.
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Navigating the gray area
Gray area interview: Questions are legal if they allow the employer to assess whether you can, in general, fulfill the job’s tasks.
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We’re talking about the same thing
We’re talking about the same thing. Fresh graduates are reluctant to describe their skills with terms like project management since they assign such terms solely to industry. It is more helpful if you look at the substance of what you’ve been up to over the last few years; then describe it using terms that are familiar to your readers. This is not bragging, but translation work.
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Introduction to quality management systems (QMS)
In many companies, quality management knowledge is expected of graduates from the life sciences, but is rarely taught at universities. For this reason, this course offers an initial over-view of the various quality management systems (QMS) and industry-associated processes.
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Women in Leadership
Being a leader has its own challenges. It takes good communication skills, the ability to give and receive feedback, some courage and trust in the own strengths as well as empathy and motivation. All these characteristics can be learned and developed.
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How to be More Employable in the Private Sector
Most of us who complete a PhD in a science discipline will end up working outside of academia. Are you wondering what working in the private sector is really like? How do you find these jobs?
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Developing profitable technology products
Developing profitable technology products. strong technical skills are only part of what’s needed to develop a profitable technology product. Successful products need to be scalable, reliable, and most of all, profitable.
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Leadership skills: How to row the boat
Leadership has changed- in parallel with our work environments. Flatter hierarchies, project work in a matrix structure and more rapid changes in assignments, locations and colleagues are but some of the new challenges we all face.
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Competition and collaboration
A short debate on networking in a course for PhD students. Half of the participants should defend the statement “Networking outside of my department is a waste of time,” while the other half argue against it.
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