GA Future Career Program: Business
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Program description and target audience
Are you interested in pursuing a career in the public or the private sector? Would you like to prepare intensively in a small interdisciplinary group for starting your career outside of academia?
The GA Future Career Program: Business offers a curricular program specifically designed for doctoral candidates and postdocs who plan a career in non-university professions. Participants will have the opportunity to broaden their knowledge in the areas of business administration, leadership and communication, project management as well as by developing their own professional profile.
This program is specifically developed for doctoral candidates close to completing their degrees and for postdocs who are interested in professions in the private or the public sector. GA-membership is a prerequisite for participation. Workshop language is German.
Content and schedule
In four consecutive modules participants can broaden their knowledge in the areas of:
- self-assessment and career planning,
- project management,
- leadership skills and communication,
- business knowledge.
Participants will also have the opportunity to apply their newly acquired skills in a joint project.
The program consists of four modules (2 days each) and a project event. Workshop language is German. Being a certificate program, attendance at all modules is expected. Participation in individual workshops is not possible. After the successful completion of the program participants will receive a comprehensive certificate containing detailed course descriptions.
The next run of the programm will start on 27 March 2020. All workshops will be in German. The schedule for the Future Career Program: Business can be found here soon.
Application requirements
The make-up of the group and the motivation of the participants are decisive for organizing a program optimally suited to their needs. Therefore, if you are interested in applying for the GA Future Career Program: Business please submit the following documents:
- a completed application form, the pdf form is available here,
- a comprehensive motivation letter including your motivation to attend the GA Future Career Program: Business, your expectations regarding the program and what kind of career you are planning (e.g. public or private sector),
- your CV,
- a declaration of support from your supervisor resp. direct superior, the pdf form is available here
Please submit the application documents as a pdf dument via email to graduiertenakademie@tu-dresden.de. Application deadline for the program is the 10 January 2020.