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2016/05/12
by Katrin Wodzicki
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Upcoming Career Fairs: Your Chance to Broaden Your Network

EMBO Career Day | 10 September 2016 | Mannheim

Associated to the 7th EMBO Meeting, a career day with short workshops on different career-related topics will take place. Take your chance, especially if you are going to the EMBO Meeting anyway!

For each session, a fee of €50 is charged.

Naturejobs Career Expo 2016 | 18 November 2016 | Duesseldorf

As the organizers write, this career fair “offers talented scientists an excellent opportunity to meet a diverse selection of national and international employers from academic institutions and scientific industries, such as pharmaceutical organizations, digital technology companies, science publishing and more.”

Participation is free of charge.

 

— more general career fairs upcoming in June —

STICKS & STONES Career Fair 2016 | 3 & 4 June 2016 | Berlin

A career fair that wants to stress diversity issues. They write about themselves: “We consider ourselves to just be very different. At STICKS & STONES, there is no room for redundant or boring mediocracy. Instead rockstars, geeks, pandas and unicorns are reflecting the infinite complexity of life. Our speaker belong to the best of their genre and there are few as proud and exciting as our exhibitors.”

During the career fair, 100 companies will be present and 40 talks on divers topics will be given. Moreover, a couple of satellite events will take place. For example, in the Jobslam, people who successfully migrate into the German job market tell their stories.

Free tickets are available.

women&work | 4 June 2016 | Bonn

This career fair is focused on female careers. During the career fair, 111 companies will present their job opportunities.

Participation is free of charge.

2016/05/12
by Katrin Wodzicki
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New Round: Dorothea Schloezer Mentoring for Female Doctoral and Postdoctoral Researchers

The University of Göttingen is offering a mentoring program for female doctoral and postdoctoral researchers at Göttingen Campus, designed to empower female junior researchers in their academic development. It represents a contribution to increasing the number of women in leading positions at universities and non-university research institutions.

Dorothea Schlözer Mentoring Program

What are my career prospects following my doctoral degree? What criteria are paramount in deciding to pursue an academic or non-academic career? How should I behave in competitive situations? And how can I combine my family life with a career in academia?

Questions like these might be in your head. A hierarchic independent mentoring relationship with a professor and the exchange of experience with other doctoral and postdoctoral researchers can provide important orientation and support at this stage in your career.

Application: until June 19, 2016

Start of new round: November 2016

Duration: 1 year

Application and further information in the flyer below and online.

Contact person for the program: Dr. Vera Bissinger (Zentrale Koordination Mentoring)

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2016/05/12
by Katrin Wodzicki
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CVs of Failure – The Other Side of Science

Successes are always in the focus in your scientific career. However, failures are very common among scientists, even among the most successful ones – but only a few speak about them. To highlight that failures are part of everyone’s career, some academics published their CVs of failure, among them Johannes Haushofer, Professor at Princeton, who has an incredible “normal” CV. By publishing his CV of failure, he also start a discussion about psychological health in academia. As he mentions in a German interview with ZEIT Campus ONLINE, we do not know much about the prevalence of depression and other psychological disorders. But the few statistics existing point to, for example, a very high degree of depression among academics.

Someone who talks about changing the culture in science and how to deal with what he calls the “cloud of confusion” in a very motivating way is Uri Alon, Professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science. You find a couple of his talks and his magnificent songs on YouTube, for example, his TED talk in Lausanne.

2016/05/12
by Katrin Wodzicki
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WoCaNet 2017: Kick-Off Workshop at 16 & 17 June

The organization of the next Womens’ Careers and Networks symposium (WoCaNet), which will take place in fall 2017, is starting with a kick-off workshop in June. Although a number of PhD students and Postdocs already agreed to join the new organization team, you have still the chance to join in, too – independent of your gender, by the way!

Organizing a symposium can offer a lot of learning opportunities. Moreover, it’s a great chance to broaden your network in Göttingen and beyond. For some examples of tasks that have to be done, have a look here.

Date: Thursday, 16 June, 13.00-17.00h & Friday, 17 June, 10.00-18.00h

Place: GZMB, Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 11, seminar room 0.232

If you are interested, please write me an email (ggnb-career@gwdg.de) and you will get further information.

2016/05/04
by Christin Schröter
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Cancelled – Workshop “Managing Yourself – Tools for Professional and Personal Success”, 7 June 2016

— Cancelled owing to a lack of demand —

We are happy to announce again the workshop “Managing Yourself – Tools for Professional and Personal Success” with Dr. Silke Oehrlein-Karpi.

Target group: Junior researchers who aim at optimizing their self-management skills

Goal: Reflecting on current self-management activities

Date: Tuesday, 7 June 2016 , 9:00-17:30 o’clock
Duration: 1 day
Place: GZMB building, Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 11, seminar room 0.232
Trainer: Dr. Silke Oehrlein-Karpi

Faced with a challenging work life, many people simply cope. But “making the best of it” seldom allows us to really do our best. Effective self-management is essential for postdoctoral researchers who have to perform outstandingly at their job and simultaneously want to find a healthy balance between work and personal life. It is also the foundation of setting and achieving valuable, fulfilling goals. This workshop is for postdoctoral researchers who understand that their own self-management serves their own success, stability and well-being at the same time.

In this workshop, you will

  • explore your current self-management activities and pay particular attention to what the appreciable consequences are.
  • identify your personal values that influence your behavior.
  • compile the requirements from outside, work load and stress factors.
  • figure out your time killers.
  • find out what you strive for, what motivates you and how and when you get your “flow”.
  • learn how to set priorities.
  • formulate a personal SMART goal.
  • get in touch with different views of life and acquire a broader understanding of others? self-leadership approaches.

You will achieve this by

  • transferring theory into practice by reflection on your own behavior.
  • getting a short-cut overview of the most hands-on tools of time management and consider what can help you concretely.
  • doing diverse self-awareness exercises.
  • peer-coaching with constructive feedback supported by the trainer.

Pre-work: About 14 days prior to the workshop, participants will receive a guideline for preparing a reflection pre-work referring to the workshop issues.

Registration: Please register here and email to Dr. Katrin Wodzicki (ggnb-career@gwdg.de), including a short statement on your motivation to join the workshop (Why this workshop?).

2016/05/04
by Christin Schröter
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Neurizons 2016: Career Fair

The next NEURIZONS conference is coming up, again with a great scientific program, supplemented by a career fair, method workshops and more.

The Career Fair might be especially interesting for you, if you are thinking about your next career step. There you will have the chance to hear about divers career paths.

Marcin Barszczewski, Global Training and Education Director at Andor, will talk about his transition from academia to engineering-type business.

If you are into writing, Eva Eismann, Journalist, might be the right person to listen to and talk with.

For one of the many less known career opportunities, visit the talk of Tomás Lopes da Fonseca, Community, Content and Account Manager at labfolder.

Zaved Khan, Assistant Professor at Adesh University, Punjab, India, will tell about research and teaching opportunities in India.

By listening to Manuela Schmidt, Emmy Noether group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine, will get to know how it is to attract money for and establish your own research group.

The time schedule you find here. Taking part in the talks is free of charge (no registration to Neurizons 2016 needed).

Date: Monday May 30th, 13.00-16.30 o’clock

Location: Manfred-Eigen Lecture Hall, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Faßberg 11, 37077 Göttingen

 

 

2016/05/03
by Christin Schröter
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Cancelled – Workshop “Entrepreneurship – A Career Option for Me?”, 6 June 2016

— Cancelled owing to a lack of demand —

We are happy to announce the workshop “Entrepreneurship – A Career Option for Me?” with Dr. Silke Oehrlein-Karpi.

Target group: Junior researchers wondering whether founding their own business is a career option for them

Goal: Realizing your entrepreneurial potential

Date: Monday, 6 June 2016 , 11:00-19:30 o’clock
Duration: 1 day
Place: GZMB building, Justus-von Liebig-Weg 11, seminar room 0.233
Trainer: Dr. Silke Oehrlein-Karpi

Detailed description:
When tinkering with the idea of setting up one’s own business, one should be aware of the personal entrepreneurial resources. People who know their entrepreneurial potential, use it reasonably and target their potential in order to switch successfully from academic employment to self-employment. The early reflection on this “subjective side” of funding one’s own business is therefore essential for its future success.

In this workshop, you will

  • learn what “entrepreneurship” means and what entrepreneurial skills are.
  • elaborate on your own entrepreneurial skills directly from your biography.
  • thoroughly scrutinize your personal values in terms of running your own company.
  • create your individual entrepreneur profile.
  • figure out if self-employment is a realistic alternative for your future.
  • obtain an overview of other professional options for people with an “entrepreneurial profile” (i.e., intrapreneur or leadership position, part-time free-lancer, etc.).

Even if you do not see yourself as an independent entrepreneur, you will get a hands-on orientation in this workshop on how you can use your particular set of skills, qualities, strengths and values for your further career.

Pre-work: About 14 days prior to the workshop, participants will receive a guideline for preparing a life profile.

Testimonials:

“Very recommendable workshop for anyone that wants to get an informative, fast, intense and to-the-point idea of where he/she is standing regarding the idea to embrace the entrepreneur adventure.”

“The workshop gave me the opportunity to scrutinize my ambitions and my abilities towards starting a business on my own. Talking those over with another postdoc from a different field was very revealing and motivating. As a whole, the atmosphere of the workshop was very encouraging to take a next step towards starting my own business.”

Registration: Please register here and send an email to Dr. Katrin Wodzicki (ggnb-career@gwdg.de), including a short statement on your motivation to join the workshop (Why this workshop?).