PhD workshop, ‘Getting there – Career Development for Natural Scientists’
Klimahaus, Bremerhaven
Juliane Handschuh
24 Nov 2023, 10:00 – 18:00
Content and Aims
Planning a career in as well as outside science and academia can be a tiresome and long process, but the right tools at hand help manoeuvring this process both strategically and structurally. The Workshop “Getting there – Career Development for Natural Scientists” aimed at developing this tool set to both formulate and reach career goals.
In general, participants practiced how to:
- Assess their current situation, including their skills and capabilities, personal set of values and interests.
- Develop a precise career development plan including SMART career goals. Project management techniques are applied to plan and manage a successful career.
- SuSuccessfully achieve their career goals and develop their individual future.
The concrete workshop plan was adapted according the interests of participants:
- Assessment of the now
- Finding Career Optiions
- Making a Plan
- Getting there
Methods
- mindmapping
- theoretical input
- practice units in group and individual work
- peer-to-peer feedback
- dicussion in plenum