You can access the e-learning from October 4, 2023 until December 14, 2023. This e-learning course will no longer be available in 2024!

This course aims to encourage postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers to start thinking about their future career options as early as possible, and offers practical techniques and suggestions to help you identify and manage suitable career paths as successfully as possible. The techniques suggested in the course will be valuable whether you are planning a career in academia or exploring a variety of alternative career options.

The aims of this course are to help you:

• Understand key factors in career decision-making
• Be able to evaluate skills that you have in addition to your research capabilities
• Know how to evaluate career routes within and outside of academia
• Understand the skills you have and how to market them to employers
• Begin developing your own career plan.

Interviews throughout the course will give you the opportunity to draw on the experience and advice of researchers who have gone on to forge successful academic and non-academic careers, in addition to employers who will explain what they look for when recruiting Ph.D. and postdoctoral researchers.

There are two tracks of this course: 'Career planning in the sciences' and 'Career planning in the arts, humanities and social sciences' which can both be accessed after registration for this course.

Duration of this course: 150 min

The indicated course duration refers to the pure review of the learning content. Please plan additional time for working on exercises and transfer tasks.

This e-learning course is being offered in a self-learning format. You therefore have the option to begin at any time convenient to you and work through it at your own pace.

Please note

You can register below, we will then check your application. If you are a KHYS member, you will receive the login details as well as further information on the course in a separate e-mail approximately two to three weeks after your registration. You will be able to access the e-learning on an online training platform of KIT.

This workshop is open to doctoral researchers and postdocs at KIT who are KHYS members.