Course | Professional Skills Course

Career Crafting for PhD Students from Life Sciences

Silke Oehrlein-Karpi

Overview

Venue: tentative: onsite

Target group: late stage PhD students

Content:

For a successful career it is a prerequisite to develop your individual strategy pro-actively and as early as possible.  Although the routine of your daily work usually keeps you from pausing for a moment, it is pivotal to set some time apart for exploring your individual professional profile and for being able to plan each of your career moves in a conscious way. Being aware of your personal skills, competencies, and values is essential for defining and achieving your goals, making informed decisions and exhausting your full potential. In this modular workshop with a blended-learning-approach, you will get relevant information about strategic career development.

Workshop Goals

  • PreWork: Identification of biographical key moments related to your career – Creating a life profile
  • Module I: Compilation of your individual skill profile (professional, methodological, social and personal) and of your personal value profile
  • InbetweenWork I: Completing your skill and value profiles
  • Module II: From values to career motivation, discussion of structural barriers and compatibility challenges in academia, identification of career alternatives to a professorship, such as scientific management and professional fields outside of science (general overview)
  • InbetweenWork II: Developing a vision about your future options
  • Module III: Feedback regarding your personal vision, plan A/plan B strategy & collecting concrete ideas how to move on towards your career goals

Please register by 13 November 2023

To receive information on course fees for external* participants, please email training@imb-mainz.de

Silke Oehrlein-Karpi


Date: 11 Dec - 13 Dec 2023
Time: 09:00 - 14:00
Location: IMB
Deadline(s):
Registration: 13 Nov 2023
Contact: training(at)imb-mainz.de