Starting a professional career in industry: Matching market need and self-presentation

For most graduates the entry into a professional business life is a challenge. Since the expectation of the labor marketer are often unknown, young gradates often run into classical application mistakes. The need to clarify details about the application procedures, to critically review the information given in a CV and the self-presentation during a job interview is essential. A reflection on the application strategy, the labor market and the given messages is essential. 

Speaker

Dr. Monika Clausen, trainer and coach for industrial partners, university clients and individuals. She offers an own training curriculum covering a broad spectrum of career related topics, bringing in a rich and manifold professional background (head of shared services center, head hunter, postdoc fellow at ETH and University of Zurich, PhD plant science at the Salk Institute in San Diego).

Date

10./11.6.2021 * 9am – 4pm

Location

Online Workshop via Zoom

Workshop

Content:

  • The labor market and its impacts on the application strategy
  • The completeness of our application documents from musts and choices
  • Answering convincingly job interview questions
  • Fitting your application strategy to the need and processes of particular employers

Objectives:

  • Participants learn how to apply successfully: the documents, the interviews, the follow-ups
  • Participants learn to prepare for interviews: your moment to impress the others
  • You train your self-marketing competencies: how to emphasize your strengths intelligently 
  • Participants learn about the quality of collegial consultancy and will be able to support each other during your application journey

Course methods:

  • Theoretical inputs to the various topics 
  • Group, pair and individual exercises  
  • Practicing contact situations
  • Feedbacks and train collegial consultancy

Program

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