Details

Fit for Future – make the most of your application process - Workshops Series I – IV (2 CP)

Organizer : Career Center
Location : Online
Start Time : 13. February 2025, 14:00
End Time : 06. March 2025, 18:30
Kategorie : Career Center
VAK
CC-49a_13-02-WiSe24-25 | CC-49b_20-02-WiSe24-25 | CC-49c_27-02-WiSe24-25 | CC-49d_06-03-WiSe24-25
Subject

In the series participants

  • learn about the structures and requirements of the application process (with a stress on changes for the future)
  • practically explore job search tools and the digital application features
  • reflect their skills and competencies with a stress on so called "next skills" and the VUCA-World
  • sharpen their profile and learn about potentials for optimization
  • practice putting their skills and abilities into words (e.g. for employers etc)
  • learn how to make active sourcing strategies work for them
  • decide how they want to network in the future

The workshops build on each other but can also be attended separately. Thanks to the blended learning format, information is made available on the learning platform and those who have already attended one or more courses will be able to cross-reference learning content. Those who attend only one of the courses will receive relevant material and can continue to work actively with it.

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Workshop I: CC-49a_13-02-WiSe24-25 Application 4.0 – Tips and tricks for the professional use of digital application tools“ am 13.02.2025 von 14:00 – 18:30

This workshop is the basic for the entire application process: we start with current tools of job research and the digital application process.

The workshop will explain most of the features of online application using practical examples - and practical exercises (with feedback).

This includes self-presentations (e. g. LinkedIn), knowledge about strategic job search, the use of online job portals - but also other features of so called "robot recruitment", such as preselection tools or time-delayed video interviews.

Content and topics:

  • Basics of personnel selection: what do recruiters do why - and how can you make that work for you
  • Successful use of digital selection and preselection tools
  • Optimize your application documents for ATS
  • ChatGPT: what can I use AI for - and how?
  • Other online tools (virtual assessment, delayed video interview, etc. )

Goals: You get to know different recruiting tools and know how to use them for your benefit.

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Workshop II: CC-49b_20-02-WiSe24-25 Future Skills – competences for your professional future am20.02.2025 von 14:00 – 18:30

Future Skills are often directly reduced to digital skills, which – as important as they are – only represent one side of the Future Skill coin.

In the context of a VUCA world, the focus of employers shifts from "what?" to a combination of "how?" and "why?". It is no longer the specialist knowledge that plays the main role, but methods and, above all, meaningful values and attitudes that are becoming increasingly important.

Complicated? No - because as a Student or PhD or PostDoc you automatically use and train a lot of that so called "next skills".

In the workshop you will discover which next skills you already use - and how you can convince others (e.g. employers) of your future-skills-profile.

Goals: You identify all moments in your studies (or work as a researcher) where you use so called "future skills". You assess the relevance of these skills on the basis of job descriptions and can give connect job requirements with specific examples from your skill-profile.

You can assess how ‘fit for the future’ you are and develop meaningful evidence for the application process and/or your further development plans.

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Workshop III: CC-49c_27-02-WiSe24-25 Be self-confident in job interviews  - how to convince others and negotiate your wishes am 27.02.2025 von 14:00 – 18:30

There are no real "rules" for job interviews - it depends on the company or organization you have been applying at, and the person responsible for the recruiting.

Nevertheless some basic and overall preparation is helpful. This workshop will support you by:

  • Optimizing your self-presentation for job interviews (and similar situations)
  • Negotiating relevant parameters and conditions of a working contract
  • Developing a strategy for answering questions (without using supposedly "best answers", because these are an invention of guidebook-authors)
  • Adjusting to different interview settings (online and offline)

We will focus on your individual preparation for job interviews - related to your filed of work, your employer etc. You might change your perspective on interviews by receiving feedback and sharing your experience with other participants. This strengthens your own ability to act on your own.

Goals: You gain self-confidence for your self-presentations (various settings) and develop convincing examples for proof (of your skills), derived from your profile.

So you can overcome communicative challenges of self-presentation in job interviews and better negotiate your contract.

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Workshop IV: CC-49d_06-03-WiSe24-25 How to do networking with an impact am 06.03.2025 von 14:00 – 18:30

If you are well connected, you have a better chance of achieving your professional goals, building and developing successful collaborations – and receiving appreciation for your achievements and performance.

In the workshop

  • you analyze your existing network and develop options for optimizing it
  • elaborate what you can specifically contribute to a network
  • develop an appropriate strategy for your (future) networking goals
  • decide witch digital and real-live networks you will use for your career plans
  • come up with a feasible and short action plan for transferring what has been learned into daily networking

Goals: You have communicative skills and practical knowledge to strategically expand your network

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Registrations for February run from 28 November 2024 to Sunday, 12 January 2025 via https://elearning.uni-bremen.de/ (course search / search in the course catalog / interdisciplinary study programs / Career Center under application and self-presentation).
As soon as the registration process is closed, you will receive an e-mail from us with the access data!

Participants

International students & graduates

Lecturer

Dr. Eva Reichmann, www.beruf-und-leben.com/

Date & Location

13.02.2025, 14:00 - 18:30
20.02.2025, 14:00 - 18:30
27.02.2025, 14:00 - 18:30
06.03.2025, 14:00 - 18:30
each online