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Career Choices: The Art of Creating a Career that You Love (GGG/GFA) in person


Target group:
PhD students of GGG and GFA, other PhD students if free places are available

Schedule:
(This workshop consists of three sessions.)
Kick-off and main part:
1) September 21, 2026 (09:00 a.m. – 17:00 p.m.)
2) September 22, 2026 (09:00 a.m. – 13:00 p.m.)
Follow-up workshop:
3) September 29, 2026 (09:00 a.m. – 13:00 p.m.)

Venue: Convention Center by the Observatory, Geismar Landstraße 11, big seminar room

Available seats: 12
Course language: English

Dr. Kerstin Mauth worked as a career consultant at Göttingen University for many years. Her work is based on an systemic perspective and her methods are inspired by Richard N. Bolles, Edgar Schein and Kornelia Rappe-Giesecke.
In today’s fast changing and complex world careers - either inside or outside academia - are getting more and more unpredictable and thus difficult to plan. Long ago are the times in which one would enter university with a job description in mind, end up in that job and stay in it ever after. Careers are more flexible, agile and disrupted than ever before. Navigating a career under these circumstances asks for specific mindsets and instruments.
This highly interactive workshop equips participants with insights and tools that help them to build a career that fits their values and strengths. It helps them to move forward towards what is meaningful to them and navigate times of uncertainty with clarity and ease.

  • Values: Uncover your Life's Intentions
  • Transferable skills: Knowing your strengths and your potential
  • Creating career plans: Exploring and experimenting with different paths
  • Networks: Who are your supporters?
  • Keep moving: Taking creative action towards new shores


Credits: 2 credits
Requirements:

  • attendance on all three sessions
  • conducting 3 information interviews (instructions will follow)
  • written reflection (1-2 pages) on the lessons learnt (to be sent to ggg.kursanmeldung@uni-goettingen.de until April 25, 2024)



Registration:
Please, register online via the registration form for GGG courses. Please also note our regulations on bindingness: e.g. four weeks before a course starts, all course registrations are regarded as binding.

Contact for further information:
Dr. Nelly C. Schubert
Phone: +551 39-28219
E-mail: ggg.kursanmeldung@uni-goettingen.de

This course is organized by the Göttingen Graduate School of Social Sciences (GGG) and the Graduate School Forest and Agricultural Sciences (GFA).
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