How to Become a Professor - How to Structure Your Postdoc

There is a lot of insecurity about the way to professorship in Germany. In this workshop we will talk about the main aspects of science career. Questions we deal with are:

• Selections of new professors (Berufungsverfahren) are somehow special and difficult ways of recruitment: how are they structured and what should applicants prepare for them?
• What is a scientific profile and how could I develop my profile?
• Market analysis: how could I find out how many open positions there will be in the time I need them and how high my risk not to get one is?
• Check list: what is really necessary to gain before I am able to apply, what did I gain already and what are my next steps? We talk about publications, 3rd party funding, teaching, networks, international research stays, talks etc.
• Next steps: science careers look different. It makes sense to ask for your specific strengths in research and to develop your career based on these strengths. We develop some ideas for this strategy.
• Personal competencies: which competencies like communication skills, assertiveness, persistence, and ability for self-presentation may make sense for science career and how could you develop them?

The next day a single or small group coaching will give participants the opportunity to talk about specific questions concerning their own situation. Appointments will be made during the workshop.

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