Content
To find the job you want after your PhD, you must know who you are and what you have to offer as a professional. But you also need to know what your ambitions are in terms of a job, further career and where to find it. And finally, you have to know how to connect with the job market, how to find contacts and how to be found by the right people.
During this session, you learn techniques that enable you to look at yourself as a product, create your own job market and efficiently connect both to find your job. Your professional appeal, finding the right companies, recruitment channels, networking, social media and application skills are addressed in the workshop. With a mix of practical theory, an inspirational story from a former PhD student, short exercises, a dialogue with a former recruiter and of course tips, tricks and stories from your colleagues, you will be able to effectively increase your chances on the job market.
Results
In this workshop, you create a plan to find your job effectively. Just by asking three questions: what am I as a product? Which market do I want to work in? How do I organise activities to become known in the job market and find that job? Inspiration, energy and structure to turn thoughts into actions.
Target group
This workshop is intended for PhD students wanting to learn how to find a job effectively. For those who have ideas about their next career move in academia, industry or government, but who don’t know where to start, how to increase their appeal for employers, recruiters etc. For those who know that finding a job takes time and don’t want to put off taking the next step now!
Trainer
Maurice van Dijk, experienced professional in the field of Human Resources Management and since 2008 an independent (career) coach and trainer. Until December 2017, Maurice also worked as an interim career coach at EUR for 2.5 years. As guest speaker, a former PhD student, he will tell you his path to a job after his PhD. A former recruiter tells you how recruiters search for potential employees and how they look at you as an applicant. Both now working at EUR.
