Academic career planning and optimizing: How to become a professor

Format
The seminar will take place as a one-day in-person event, followed by individual consultations via Zoom.

Objectives & content
The aim of the seminar is, on the one hand, to provide you with a framework for reflecting on your own professional motives. On the other hand, the seminar offers knowledge, background and orientation for planning and developing the next steps towards a long-term academic career in Germany. Questions will be discussed such as: What long-term career options does the academic job market offer for research and what are the actual chances here? What requirements and criteria should be met for this career path? When are which tasks particularly important? What has the highest priority? How important is the habilitation? What time frame is appropriate? The seminar will inform you about the central requirements (also beyond publications and third-party funding) and milestones for an academic career. Furthermore, the seminar will provide you with concrete tips and advice on both the weighting of these requirements and on strategic considerations during the postdoc phase on the path to a
professorship. Building on this, the seminar offers you the opportunity to take stock and reflect on your own academic profile and ideally derive the next important steps from this.
After the workshop, participants have the opportunity to take part in a 30 min individual coaching session. Participants can use this, for example, to receive feedback on their profile analysis, to reflect on next career steps, or to work on further individual questions.

Methods
- Interactive input and short presentations by the lecturer
- Reflection on professional motives
- Small group reflection
- Structured analysis of the academic profile
Accompanying materials
- Workshop handout
- Workbook with
o Exercise to analyze personal professional motives
o Reflection on own networking behavior
o Analysis of your own academic profile
o Reflection on the compatibility of family and academic career
o Two sample CVs for professorship applications

Additional information
Please note: The seminar focuses in particular on the German academic system.

Trainer: Dr. Dieta Kuchenbrandt
since 05/2013 - Consultant & lecturer for scientists at schainundkuchenbrandt
04/2007 – 07/2015 - Teaching at the Universities of Greifswald, Bielefeld and Osnabrück
05/2010 – 01/2015 - Researcher, Bielefeld University, Cluster of Excellence Cognitive Interaction Technology
04/2013 – 09/2013 - Visiting professor for Social Psychology, University of Osnabrück
09/2009 – 04/2010 - Research Associate, University of Greifswald
08/2006 – 07/2009 - PhD scholarship holder, University of Greifswald

Language: English