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2015/03/17
by Katrin Wodzicki
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Workshop “Job Hunting and Application Skills – Natural and Life Sciences”, 11-12 May 2015

We are happy to announce the next workshop on “Job Hunting and Application Skills – Natural and Life Sciences”.

Date: Monday, 11 May 2015, 13:00-17:00 & Tuesday, 12 May 2015, 9:00-17:00
Place: GZMB building, seminar room 0.232
Trainer: Barbara Hoffbauer
Duration: 1,5 days

Registration: http://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/192407.html

Content:
The workshop deals with how to write a professional application. Participants will learn about the requirements according to form and content of CVs and the respective differences between academia and companies. They will reflect about how to convey their strengths and motivation in response to a job advertisement, but also how to make use of speculative applications. Moreover, participants will train their self-presentation in the job hunting process, including self-presentation on career fairs, conferences, and interviews. The workshop will include a couple of training sessions, partly accompanied with video recording for a follow-up analysis.

Subsequent to the workshop, it is possible to get a CV check from the trainer.

A retrospective view on the first workshop of this kind is available here.

2015/03/17
by Katrin Wodzicki
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Workshop “Managing Your Risks”, 12 May 2015

We are happy to announce the workshop “Managing Your Risks – Personal Planning Under Uncertainty” with Matthew Speyer.

Workshop date: Tuesday, 12 May 2015, 9:00-17:00 o’clock
Place: Seminar room, Von-Siebold-Str. 4
Trainer: Matthew Speyer
Duration: 1 day

Registration: http://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/192407.html

Content:

Researchers are often faced with temporary work contracts and uncertain career
perspectives. This workshop aims at providing researchers with tools to acquire more
clarity about their present situation and to make educated, more strategic decisions under
conditions of uncertainty.

Topics

  • Sphere of influence
  • Rational and intuitive planning
  • Definition of and dealing with “failure”
  • Critical factor analysis (e.g. own priorities and values)
  • Scenario planning for a spectrum of scenarios
  • Probabilities
  • Decision matrix
  • Mini SWOT analysis
  • Self-coaching tools, e.g. “catastrophe question”
  • Experiences / questions / peer coaching groups

 

2015/03/16
by Katrin Wodzicki
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Workshop “The Art of Negotiation”, 7 April 2015

We are happy to announce the workshop “The Art of Negotiation” with Matthew Speyer.

Workshop date: Tuesday, 7 April 2015, 9:00-17:00 o’clock
Place: Seminar room, Von-Siebold-Str. 4
Trainer: Matthew Speyer
Duration: 1 day

Registration: http://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/192407.html

Content:

Who is going to be first author? Who will attend the next international conference? Negotiating these or other professional issues with either peers or seniors is an integral part of everybody’s professional life. Often it is inevitable to encounter differences in aims and approaches. This workshop is meant to raise your skills in recognizing, balancing and adequately representing your own needs in all kinds of negotiations. You will learn how to pro-actively prepare for, shape and follow up on negotiations and how to work productively with differences in interests in order to reduce unproductive conflict but also dysfunctional conflict avoidance.

Topics

  • The nature of conflict
  • Preparation for negotiation
  • Identifying underlying needs
  • Separating interests from positions
  • Clear communication
  • Holding the tension and standing one’s ground
  • Understanding and acknowledging the other’s perspective
  • Experiences and case discussions

2015/03/12
by Katrin Wodzicki
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Start Up Funding for Postdoctoral Researches for Proposal Preparations

The Research Department of the University of Goettingen is offering a start up funding for postdoctoral researchers of the University who are currently preparing a grant proposal to support the success of the proposal. Here are some information from the Research Department website:

The university (without the Faculty of Medicine who has its own start-up-program) is providing start-up funding to young academics for the preparation and submission of research proposals. With this new initiative, the university is encouraging postdoctoral researchers to remain in academia and pursue careers in research and science. Funding is intended for individual grant proposals (e.g. DFG research grants including “temporary positions for principal investigators”). Persons eligible are young academics with a doctoral degree (up to eight years after completing their doctoral thesis) who would like to submit their own grant proposal and are employed at the University of Goettingen for at least 6 months following the application deadline.
The maximum amount of start-up funding available is 10.000 € and is limited to a period of six months. It covers staff expenses (for student or research assistants) and direct costs. It is not available for financing one’s own position or covering expenses for basic equipment (such as PCs, office material, literature or telephone expenses).

Deadline: 15 May 2015

More information available here.

2015/02/27
by Katrin Wodzicki
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BCG Case Study Event at GGNB, 10 April 2015 (German only)

Thanks to the WoCaNet organizer team from last year, I got in contact with the Boston Consulting Group (BCG). As a result, a BCG Case Study Event will take place in Göttingen on 10 April 2015. For taking part, you have to apply directly to BCG. See details below.

Deadline for application: 2 April 2015

As BCG is only recruiting people with good German skills, the event will take place in German.

BCG_Case Study Event_GGNB

2015/02/20
by Katrin Wodzicki
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Career Seminar at MPI-ds Bunsenstraße, 26 February 2015

Here another invitation to a career seminar at the MPI-ds Bunsenstrasse, organized by PhD students:

Dear Fellow Students,

Are you close to finish your studies and do not know what to do with your life? Can you not decide on whether to stay in academia, pursue a career in industry or devote your life to “hippie-ness”? Our monthly career seminar might help you make your mind.

Our next speaker is Dr. Olav Stetter. He will be speaking about his journey from his former position as a PhD candidate at the MPIDS to his actual job at a Tech Start-up.

The talk is going to be held on Thursday February 26th 2015 at the Ludwig-Prandtl-Hörsaal, House 8, MPIDS Bunsenstrasse 10 at 17 c.t..

You will find attached the announcement with all details.

Best wishes,

Alexander, Florencia and José

CS_Olav Stetter