Starting a Career in the Non-Academic Labour Market: Matching market needs and self-presentation

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
• Strategic process planning

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: knowledge and tools for job interviews
• 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
• Overnight task preparing answer to given questions and finding a target job (appr. 2 hours)