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 2-2.5 h each = 2 workshop days
Trainer
Karin Bodewits, Philipp Gramlich or Lisa Steinhauser
Target group
PhD students and postdocs
Description
Our workshop will give you orientation for your further career development during and after your PhD: Self-analysis (introspection), career options, and skill development.
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:
About yourself
- Your interests, values and skills
Career options
- There are many more options than you think and you will be able to change between them
Shall I do a postdoc or not?
Skill development
- Which (hidden) skills do you already have,
which can you develop during your time in academia - Skills match: What do employers want from you? How to 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. All videos contain a full, downloadable transcript. All eBooks on the learning platform are downloadable in pdf format.
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.
Already interested to learn more about the workshop content? You might be interested in the Sections Introspection and (Alternative) Careers in our Career Resources. We wrote a number of articles about the topics discussed in this workshop, e.g. Postdoc or not or a podcast interview How to find your dream job.
Course Flow Online Workshops
Day1
Live Webinar- kick off / strategy and introspection
- Individual and group course work (online and offline)
Day 2
Live Webinar- career options-strategy
- Individual and group course work (online and offline)
Day 3
Live Webinar- career options-specifics
- Individual and group course work (online and offline)
Day 4
Live Webinar- skills match
- Individual and group course work (online and offline)
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.