Doctoral course - Career skills for scientists
Learn more about career options for PhDs and increase your awareness about all the transferable skills you obtain during your doctoral education. You can also take the opportunity to apply for a one month financed internship in a company or organization within the public or private sector.
The course includes reflections over what career options that exist and sessions where academic and non-academic careers paths and entrepreneurial options are presented and discussed. In addition, the course includes the process and steps in a job application procedure, networking practice and gives you the possibility to use your communication skills in various contexts.
Application
The next course occasion is Spring 2023, for which application is open 17 October to 15 November 2022.
Here is a direct link to the course in the PhD course catalogue, where you can read more details on the content of this course.
Also have a look at the Important when applying for doctoral courses info.
Schedule
The course is organized online this year. As always it is spread over multiple weeks, and equivalent to 1 week full time (40h).
The course runs over 8 weeks and is built up as follows:
- January 24th - March 16th: 10 sessions (in-person) in total (five weeks). The time of the course is from 10.00-12.00 every Tue and Thu, including private study (total +- 6h/week).
- February 27th – March 10th: 2 weeks of individual exam prep (total +- 4h/week) + optional internship info sessions.
- March 14th – March 16st: 1 week of exam presentations in smaller groups (+- 2h).
A more detailed schedule will be available to course participants on the course web (Canvas).
Internship
Career Service recruit companies and announce the internship projects to the participants in the Careers skills for Scientist course. There are are a limited number of internships each year. More info on the page dedicated for the PhD student internships.
