Everything you don´t learn in the lab
PhD, and next? Career options, skills and orientation for scientists
Topic area
Career development
Format
Online or in-house workshop
Workload
4 webinars of 2.5 h each = 2 workshop days
Trainer
Karin Bodewits, Philipp Gramlich or Lisa Steinhauser
Target group
PhD students and postdocs
Description
Explore your interests and values, your PhD career options and skills development to unlock new opportunities in your professional journey as a scientist.
So, you finally have a science degree- or will in the future. What to do with it? Are all doors open to you, or is there still a lot of work to be done?
In this course you´ll learn about:
Introspection
Your interests, values and skills
Careers with a PhD
A scientist has numerous options beyond what you might expect and can easily switch between them.
Shall I do a postdoc or not?
Does it make sense to spend additional time on academic research after your PhD?
Skill development
Which (hidden) skills do you already have, and which can you develop during your time in academia?
Skills match
What do employers want from you? How can you sell yourself?
All participants receive a script of the course in PDF format for offline and future use so that they can work through the material offline as well as after the course.
This workshop can be combined with Job application and interview strategies for scientists to give the workshop Goodbye academia?, which gives a complete overview over the most common career development topics for scientists.
Course Flow Online Workshops
Day1
Live webinar
- Kick off
- Strategy and introspection
Self-paced work on our learning platform
Day 2
Live webinar
- Career options-strategy
Self-paced work on our learning platform
Day 3
Live webinar
- career options-specifics
Self-paced work on our learning platform
Day 4
Live webinar
- skills match
Self-paced work on our learning platform
Weeks 2-3
Individual written or oral feedback from the instructorDo you want to see a preview of the Online Workshop?
Do you want to dive into the topic already now? You could check the website of the British organisation Vitae, which has collected high quality tools and sources for researchers.
On our own website, you can find many sources in our Career resources. Many of the articles in our Publication section deal with topics of career development.