Counseling
Career Orientation and Skills Training for Postdocs
Counseling
Welcome Chats
Welcome to DESY!
The welcome chat is for all incoming postdocs.
It is a two-way street: an opportunity to introduce yourself and express your needs, and a way for COAST to inform on what we offer.
We are looking forward to establish a rapport with you early in your postdoc phase and support you throughout your career!
Career Counseling
In-person counselings in Zeuthen on December 11, 2024
- available in Hamburg and Zeuthen
Postdocs have the opportunity to receive confidential, one-on-one career counseling sessions.
Sessions can be held virtually, in-person or by phone call.
Definition: A process that will help you to know and understand yourself and the world of work in order to make career and life decisions.
Outcome: Give knowledge and skills you need to make future career and life decisions.
Methods:
Active listening and asking open-ended questions to help you with:
- Sorting out ideas, organizing and making sense of thoughts about next career steps,
- Identifying factors influencing career development,
- Assigning abilities, interests and values.
Model: Holistic, person-centered: striving to provide an empathic, genuine, non-judgemental and respectful environment.
COAST Career Counselors have expertise in career development theory, counseling techniques, assessments and career information resources. They have been trained not to give advice, but rather to give you space to brainstorm and make informed decisions.
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Frequency of sessions:
We start with a one-hour career counseling session and encourage you to have at least one follow-up session. With the gain of self-reflection and new perspectives, changes happen between the sessions. Additional sessions can be used to dig deeper into specific topics. It is therefore helpful to have consecutive sessions to measure the progress in a safe and structured environment.
The 60-minute confidential session can help:
- Clarify career goals
- Explore options
- Identify strengths and challenges
- Implement plan for skills development
- Prepare for upcoming interviews
- Critique CV/Cover Letter
- Gain information on resources at DESY and beyond
Please get in touch for a personal counseling session.
DESY Help
Here is an extensive list of contacts within DESY to help you with the topic that troubles you.
Go ahead and contact them, they are there for you and will help you.