Qualifications Portal of the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena

Careers in German universities and research institutes are difficult. Towards the end of your PhD or at the beginning of your postdoctoral years, you need to decide whether you want to continue your academic career and aim for a professorship, or if you want to leave academia. This step is difficult for many PhD candidates and postdocs, often because they have not yet thought of, or tried out, alternative career paths.
 
In the workshop, you will first focus on the competencies you have gained until now. Based on these competencies, you will then use different strategies to explore the non-academic labour market and to develop ideas of job profiles that fit you. Finally, you will plan the next steps which will help you secure a suitable position on the labour market.