Career Development: Creating a Career Profile: Talking About Skills and Strengths

The Berlin University Alliance (BUA) is an alliance of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin and Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin. Together, they are pursuing the goal of creating and shaping an integrated research space in Berlin. This alliance aims to establish Berlin as a leading international science location. All workshops and events offered by the Graduate Studies Support Program are funded by the BUA and therefore free of charge.   

Participation

Doctoral researchers (all disciplines) and postdocs of the Berlin University Alliance. 

Before booking a workshop, please make sure that you can attend for the entire duration. Please check our terms and conditions.   

Objectives and Content

In this workshop, we’ll learn how to build a profile that showcases what you’re great at, and practice talking about your skills and strengths.
We’ll also learn how to translate those skills to jobs outside of academia.

•    What can I do? What are my skills and strengths? How can I find the “red thread”
     or pattern that connects my prior experiences (and why does this matter)?
•    How can I find out how I compare to others in my field? What tools exist to help
     me determine what I need to work on, and what can I do to quickly add to my CV?
•    How can I tell my career story in a way that is compelling and attractive to
     employers outside of academia? What differences are there between self-marketing
     in Germany and self-marketing abroad?

Please note

For updates and announcemnets register to our DRS Newsletter.

Also check out workshops at the BUA partner institutions that are available for you free of charge: Graduate Studies Support Program.

For workshops held online, participation is allowed under the following conditions: a working camera that is turned on and a microphone to allow active participation in discussions and group work. Headphones must also be used to protect other participants from office eavesdroppers. In this context, we would also like to refer to the rules for digital courses at Freie Universität Berlin (Code of Conduct).