Certificate programme: Building International Careers

This workshop is the kick-off meeting for the programme. The activities will be the following:

• Overview – What methods will we work with?
• Career orientation, job/ internship search, application process – How to get started
• Introducing selected methods of career path planning
• How can you discover your opportunities worldwide?
• Building success-teams

Trainer: Henrike Haase (Career Service, University of Göttingen)

Date: Monday, 05.11.2018

Time: 2:15 - 6pm

In this workshop we will focus on the following:

• Your competence profile and how to present it – at what point are your soft skills relevant and when are your hard skills relevant?
• How can you focus the attention of potential employers on your key competences?
• Where to look to identify job opportunities and research options with lower competition level
• How to present your key competences on XING / LinkedIn in English/German
• Devising a plan of action – what are the next three things you will do?

Trainer: Simon Chaplin (Coach, Berlin)

Date: Saturday, 17.11.2018

Time: 10am – 3pm

This workshop covers topics on how to present yourself in an application context

Trainer: Shirley McCarthy (Business Coach)

Date: Saturday, 08.12.2018

Time: 9am – 6pm

This meeting is the milestone of the programme. By now you will have learned more about your career plans and how to specify your objectives.
This session will focus on:

• Reflection on your goals
• Discussing further steps and support measures
• How to continue the success teams
• Feedback

Trainer: Henrike Haase (Career Service, University of Göttingen))

Date: Monday, 14.01.2018

Time: 2:15 – 6pm

A success team is a small ongoing group of students helping each other to follow their individual targets. The group will give you impulses, brainstorm new solutions to new problems and support you in times of struggle. You will meet every second week to report your progress, ask for support in specific matters and decide about the next steps. We will build the success teams during the first workshop. You will organise the meetings all by yourself. An ideal meeting takes about two hours and will focus on every single team member.

In the success-teams, you will create an individual profile summary: This could be a complete application, your profile on a career-network or a creative written presentation of your skillset. Your result will be part of the final presentation in March.

Do not hesitate to ask for support or group coaching if there is a need for it. Furthermore, you will have the possibility to structure and focus your meetings based on professional materials.

You are going to present your profile summary and a reflection on your personal learnings. The final presentation is a mandatory element to receive the certificate.

Individual consultations (esp. for defining your goals) during or office hours or by individual appointment

• LuXXprofile personality questionnaire including feedback session (upon request)

You are welcome to participate in our career events with international focus. Find suitable workshops, webinars, presentations, excursions and job fairs in our

Intercultural perspectives expand understanding of subject- or context-specific situations and promote the exchange of knowledge and experience between members of different cultures and social or professional groups. In this course you will learn how to understand the implications of a culturally determined diversity and be able to identify basic cultural values. You will be able to develop strategies for more efficient intercultural communication and to identify and adapt communication styles.

Trainer: Alexandra Schreiber, MA (Centre for Intercultural Competence, University of Goettingen)

Date: Wednesday, 20.2.-22.02.2019

Time: 2:15 – 5:30pm Humangenetik – 0.416

Or in English language

Date: Monday, 04.03.- 06.03.2019

Time: 2 – 5:30pm Humangenetik – 0.416