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2022/10/11
by Stefanie Klug
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Workshop “From a Successful Job Application to the Job Interview”, 16 June 2023

We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Service workshop “From a Successful Job Application to the Job Interview” by Barbara Hoffbauer. This workshop is intended for those postdocs and late stage-PhD students who are already informed about various professional perspectives outside academia and have reflected their own suitability for different career paths.

Date: Friday, 16 June 2023
Duration: 1 full day (9:00-17:00h)
Location: Seminar rooms E+F, Max Planck Institute for Solar Systems Research, Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 3 (map)
Trainer: Barbara Hoffbauer

Workshop Description: The first part of this workshop focuses on the application documents. In exercises the participants will reflect their individual achievements so far and learn how to convincingly present them in the CV as center-piece of every application. Analysing real job ads the participants will practise how to write cover letters that create the desire to meet the author. They will get advice on how their determination for a specific career path can be reflected in CV and cover letter and what other application documents to include considering differences between jobs in science and industry.

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2022/10/10
by Stefanie Klug
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Workshop “Career planning and navigation on your way to professorship”, 6-7 July 2023

We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Service workshop “Career planning and navigation on your way to professorship” by Dr. Uta Bronner.

In the workshop you will develop an individual strategy to approach the next steps on your scientific path.

Date: Thursday and Friday, 6-7 July 2023
Duration: 1 full day (9:00-17:00h) in presence + 1 hour individual online coaching session (online) on the second day
Location: North campus – exact location will be announced to registered participants in due time
Target group: Late-stage PhDs and Postdocs of different career stages who really want to pursue an academic career
Trainer: Dr Uta Bronner

Workshop Description: 

In a vivid mixture of presentations, group tasks and exercises the workshop guides you as a young researcher to having a closer look at career pathways inside academia. You will develop a biographically based profile that precisely highlights your individual qualifications and skills which are needed in science. Also, the typical requirements and hidden expectations in an academic setting will be revealed.  

How to publish adequately, and what else is relevant for one’s academic career strategy? In which way do mentoring and other activities help to establish progress and development? Which alternative career options could (should) become a Plan B?

On Day 2, you can discuss specific questions about your intended career in an individual coaching session.

2022/07/25
by Stefanie Klug
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GAUSS Career Impulse Session (23 June 2023, 14:00-15:30) with Dr. Daniel Reuss (IQVIA): “Make it your way – From the wet lab to management consulting and beyond“

We’re happy to announce our next in-person GAUSS Career Impulse Sessions, this time with Dr. Daniel Reuss, Client Partner at IQVIA.

Daniel will talk about how he successfully made the switch from academia to a leading management consulting firm and further to one of the largest CROs worldwide. He will offer insights on the skillset you need to become a consultant and why consulting companies are looking for new talents with a MINT background. IQVIA is a global contract research organization supporting clients in the pharma, biotech and medtech industry all the way from R&D to commercialization.

  • Date: Friday, 23 June 2023
  • Time: 14:00-15:30 (appr.)
  • Location: GZMB building, large seminar room 0.232, ground floor, Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 11 (map)
  • Registration: Please write a short e-mail to career@gauss.uni-goettingen.de if you plan to attend. The log-in data will be sent to registered participants.
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2022/02/26
by Stefanie Klug
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GAUSS Career Impulse Session (12 May 2023, 14:00-15:30) with Dr. Ana Kutschat: “Paving (and braving and thrilling!) your way through science”

We’re happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Impulse Sessions, this time with Dr. Ana Kutschat, Research Fellow at St. Anna Children’s Cancer Research Institute (CCRI) and the Center for Molecular Medicine (CeMM) in Vienna.

  • Date: Friday, 12 May 2023
  • Time: 14:00-15:30 (appr.)
  • Location: online
  • Registration: Please write a short e-mail to career@gauss.uni-goettingen.de if you plan to attend. The log-in data will be sent to registered participants.

About the speaker:

Ana completed her PhD on Calcium signaling dependent epigenetic reprograming upon acquired chemoresistance in pancreatic cancer in the lab of Prof. Steven Johnsen at the UMG, currently at the Robert Bosch Center for Tumor Diseases, in 2021. She then moved to the lab of Dr. Davide Seruggia at the St. Anna Children’s Cancer Research Institute (CCRI) and the Center for Molecular Medicine (CeMM) in Vienna, Austria for her postdoc. There she continues to focus on tumor epigenetics, developing new methods and investigating the risk factors associated with childhood leukemia. She was recently awarded a MSCA Postdoctoral Individual Fellowship for her work.

During this session, Ana will share her path and discuss the challenges and successes she has faced so far, including: being involved in the move of the Johnsen lab from Göttingen, receiving excellent long-distance supervision, witnessing her project unfold in a completely new and exciting direction, wrapping up her PhD during the pandemic, being the second person to join the newly established Seruggia lab, adjusting to a new working environment and being the first Postdoc in the history of CCRI to be awarded the MSCA Postdoctoral Individual Fellowship.

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2022/02/25
by Stefanie Klug
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Workshop “Career Planning”, 8-9 May 2023

We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Service workshops: “Career Planning- What are my further career movements” by Dr. Matthias Merkelbach.

What are my unique abilities and interests critical in determining the right career path for me? Can I combine my ideas about a fulfilled life with a career outside of university and academia? How can I develop a strategy for embarking on a non-academic career path?

This workshop helps to answer this – and other – questions for all those who want to plan their career development strategically. 

Dates: Monday and Tuesday, 8-9 May 2023
Location: Seminar rooms A+B, Max Planck Institute for Solar Systems Research, Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 3 (map)
Duration: 9:00-17:00h on both days
Trainer: Dr. Matthias Merkelbach
Target group: Postdoctoral scientist and late-stage PhD students

Registration: Please register here and send an email to career@gauss.uni-goettingen.de including a short statement on your motivation to attend the workshop.

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2022/02/24
by Stefanie Klug
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Online Workshop: “Fast Forward – The Ultimate Productivity System for Researchers” (7-week course, starting 24 April 2023)

We are happy to announce our next project management workshop “Fast Forward – The Ultimate Productivity System for Researchers” with Dr. Nadine Sinclair.

Achieve amazing productivity and reduce your stress level in 7 weeks by implementing the productivity secrets that allow management consultants and high-performing industry teams to generate results quickly.

  • Information event via Zoom: 31 March 2023: 10:00-10:30h
  • Live Kick-off: Monday, 24 April 2023, 10-11:30h
  • Duration: 7 consecutive weeks with weekly Q&A session on Wednesdays (or Thursdays), 17:00-18:00h (only one session per week needs to be attended)
  • Target group: Postdocs and late-stage PhD students who would like to add effective project management to their skill set and apply the principles to their own research supported by an implementation phase offered during this course.
  • Webpage: http://mindmatters.pro/fastforward
  • Credits / Certificate: After successfully completing the workshop (this includes attending 6 of the 7 live Q&A sessions and completion of weekly assignments), you will receive a certificate and/or 2.0 credits (for PhD students).
  • To register, please send an e-mail to career@gauss.uni-goettingen.de, including a short motivation statement and your commitment to complete the course (PhD students: please register via StudIP between 1-20 February 2023)

Pre-requisites
This training is for you if you can attend all live Q&A sessions, have a project that you can work on during the course, are ready to roll up your sleeves to work with the tools and techniques and willing to engage with the trainers and your peers on these topics.
This training is not for you if you are just looking for information on personal productivity and project management, cannot take the time to attend the live Q&A sessions and implement the techniques, or are unwilling to engage in discussions with others.
Ideally the project should last at least 3 months from the beginning of the course and at minimum 8 weeks. Your project of choice should have a professional context – it can be a research project, writing a paper/thesis, literature search to define a project, job search or similar. 

This workshop has a different format than our other workshops as it is an online workshop running for 7 weeks including

  • Weekly pre-recorded lectures to watch at your own pace
  • Weekly 1-hour live Q&A session via Zoom video conference hosted by the trainer Nadine Sinclair to answer your questions ( Please note: If you miss more than one of the Q&A sessions you will neither receive a certificate nor any credits.)
  • Self-study workbooks and templates to help you implement the techniques in your projects with actionable feedback on weekly course assignments on a dedicated private community platform
  • Private community that allows you to interact with peers and exchange additional resources
  • Personal Productivity Score assessment at the beginning and end of the course
  • average workload per week: approximately 3-4h

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2022/02/23
by Stefanie Klug
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GAUSS Career Impulse Session (21 April 2023, 14:00-15:30) with Dr. Matthieu Hammer (Merck Group): “How I got into industry, a journey into pharmacovigilance”

We’re happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Impulse Sessions, this time with Dr. Matthieu Hammer, Head of Data Processing and Quality Management at Merck Group.

  • Date: Friday, 21 April 2023
  • Time: 14:00-15:30 (appr.)
  • Location: GZMB building, large seminar room 0.232, ground floor, Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 11 (map)
  • Registration: Please write a short e-mail to career@gauss.uni-goettingen.de if you plan to attend. The log-in data will be sent to registered participants.

About the speaker:

Matthieu is a neuroscientist by academic training and a GGNB alumnus. He moved to Göttingen in 2009 for his PhD in the lab of Nils Brose at the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences. His doctoral and post-doctoral research entailed the role of the Neuroligin 4 in neurodevelopmental disorder. Matthieu stepped into industry in 2016 to Icon Docs a contract research organisation where he learned the basic of pharmacovigilance. In 2018, he joined Merck in Darmstadt where he is now Director in Case processing and Quality Management.

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