Starting Your Career Outside Academia ONLINE

Aims

Leaving academia and looking for a job in the industry is an important and sometimes difficult step. This fundamental career training enables you to prepare convincing application documents and to master interviews competently, including the negotiation of an adequate salary.

Content

In the first part of the course you will understand how to write your cover letter and CV, and how best to adapt your application to the job offer. You will see examples of a professional application design and photos. Moreover, you will get advice for your certificate selection and receive important hints for your application phase in general. Additionally, you will learn the meaning of typical phrases in job advertisements and identify “must” and “can” criteria. By means of an example, it is explained how much your chances of success are influenced by requirements you cannot fulfil.

We will continue with your preparation for job interviews, including suitable clothing, time of arrival and research of company information. We will also discuss content and rules for your self-introduction. You learn more about the classical interview structure and receive advice for other types of selection processes such as online or telephone interviews. Furthermore, you receive tips for the salary negotiation phase, typical mistakes and alternative options to substitute a lower payment. Finally, you get to know typical questions a recruiter will ask you and ways of answering them while avoiding common mistakes.

On the last day, you can practice your self-presentation for interview situations and receive feedback in small groups. Appointments for each group will be made at the beginning of the course.

Methods

Presentation, individual work, team work, group discussion, role play, work with case studies and personal examples.

Target Group

Advanced Doctoral Candidates & Postdocs

About the Trainer

Heidi Störr, Push Your Career - Career Consultancy
Further trainer details: www.push-your-career.com/about-heidi-storr

After her graduation in business studies with focus in Human Resources she worked as a Recruiter for several companies. Since 2012 she offers application trainings for German and international academics. With her trainings, she provides concrete guidance for all steps of an application phase to start a career in Germany´s industry.

Workload

Total of 14h (12h course attendance, 2h preparatory work)

Feature

Once registration is open, applications will be collected for 24 hours and course places allocated by lot. All registrations received after the initial 24h period will be put on a waiting list and assigned on a first come, first served basis.

Course places/places on the waiting list will be confirmed by e-mail. Course registrations can only be canceled before the registration period ends (send an e-mail to grace@unibas.ch). Full course attendance is mandatory. Participants who fail to attend a course without prior notification or withdraw after the registration deadline are subject to a fee of CHF 30. In addition, participants who cancel their course registration at a later point in time, are absent without an excuse or do not attend the entire course will, for reasons of fairness, not be considered for course registration in the following semester and will be removed from other courses offered in the same semester. Please find the detailed regulations on the Transferable Skills Homepage.