Description and Content: 

How to tailor the cover letter and the curriculum vitae for an academic job application? Is a photo required? What about a motivational ‘third page’? What does a future research plan include? Academic job applications greatly differ from job applications in the industry, but in what way? Excellence, dedication, and discipline do not automatically create academic success. Manifold factors impact on academic careers. Apart from an outstanding performance, a high output, and an innovative research topic, an academic career is determined by collaborations on both vertical and horizontal levels, on the organizational and the personal level. Field knowledge, academic visibility, and proactive networking play key roles in academic careers. Junior scientists with an expanded network of sponsors and academic contacts increase their chances for (joint) publications, invitations to give a talk, and successful grant applications.

The workshop provides you primarily with an overview of the influential factors, general normative practices, career paths and requirement in the German academic system and how to proactively become visible, participate, and network within the larger scientific community. Additionally, this first day will briefly summarize what goes into the academic CV, the academic profile, and how to structure your letter of application.

About the Trainer

Dr. Dunja Mohr, Go Academic!, senior scientist, certified coach, and trainer, has been offering  workshops, group and individual coachings for foundations, clusters of excellence, Graduate schools, universities, and universities of applied science for almost twenty years. She has also been a coach for uni-support, Institut für Hochschulberatung, for ten years.