Starting a Career in the Non-Academic Labor Market

The move from an academic environment to industry is a challenge. A successful applicant knows that it takes more than convincing application documents to leave competitors behind. Awareness about the current labor market, a cautious evaluation and matching of existing and requested skills are as crucial as a thorough idea of the added value offered to a company. These thoughts are not only important to make a match between job profile and self-image in the documents but also for the interview process.

The workshop will cover:

• General aspects of the labor market and impacts on the application strategy
• Convincing application documents and industry expectations
• Job interview training including methods to answer difficult questions
   

Objectives:

• Participants link profiles and labor market: realizing differences in expectations
• Participants learn how to apply successfully: the documents, the interviews, the follow-ups
• Participants train self-marketing: skills and practice interviews
• Participants learn tools to answer difficult questions convincingly
   

Course methods:

• Theoretical inputs to the various topics
• Group, pair, individual exercises, and role games
• Feedbacks and training collegial consultancy
   

Preparation work:

• Bring the application documents to the training
• Reflect on the situation in the labor market (prep assignment)
• Overnight task preparing answer to given questions and finding a target job (appr. 2 hours)