Career planning and development

The offer for further career planning and development includes career coaching as well as workshops and events.
The career coaching sessions provide postdocs with needs-oriented and individualised support in shaping their further professional career.
Workshops and events can serve as professional orientation, prepare for the next career steps or also support with appointment processes.

Below you will find information on the two categories:

Career coaching

As part of the Academic Skills Training, postdoctoral researchers and lecturers have the opportunity to apply for career coaching.
This option is also available to cooperative doctoral researchers (for details, see "Target groups").
Please use the online form under"Registration" to request coaching.

Please note the information below before applying for coaching.

Most coaching sessions take place online. If you would like coaching in person, please let us know separately.
Unfortunately, travel costs cannot be covered.

Description

Career coaching is intended to support and strengthen postdoctoral researchers and lecturers in their academic career planning. Career coaching can cover a wide range of topics related to an academic career, such as

  • Career planning
  • Application for a professorship
  • Reconciling an academic career and family life
  • Taking on management tasks
  • Crises in the research process and how to overcome them
  • Self-positioning/strengthening self-confidence in the work context
  • Improving self-management and time management
  • Creating a healthy work-life balance
  • Special challenges of cooperative doctorates

The programme's coaching pool also includes coaches who specialise in career coaching for women.

Target groups

Postdoctoral researchers are those who have submitted their dissertation. They should also be guaranteed to remain at the University of Erfurt for at least one year.
"Lecturers" refers to lecturers from the postdoctoral researcher phase onwards. In addition to professors and tenure and career track professors, teachers for special purposes who work at the University of Erfurt for a longer period (at least 3 semesters) and adjunct lecturers who are members of the University of Erfurt in accordance with Section 21 (1) sentence 4 ThürHG can also take advantage of coaching.

Co-operative doctoral candidates can also apply for individual coaching. The coaching sessions should focus on the special challenges of cooperative doctorates.
(cooperation between the University of Erfurt and the University of Applied Sciences or cooperation between the University of Erfurt and a non-university research institution).

The programme is only open to members and affiliates of the University of Erfurt.

Procedure

If you are interested in coaching, please fill out the registration form below.
Once we have received your enquiry, we will inform you whether coaching is available. If you are accepted, you will receive suggestions from us as to who might be suitable as a coach. You contact your favourite coach for an introductory meeting (you are also welcome to contact several potential coaches). 
You then let us know your preference, submit a coaching agreement and we take care of the contractual aspects. As soon as this is done, you can make appointments with the coach.
Make sure you keep the agreed appointments or cancel them in good time.

Up to 5 coaching sessions of 60 minutes each can be financed.
It is possible to apply for further coaching 12 months after the end of the first coaching session. However, the topics must be different.

After all sessions have been completed, you must submit the documentation form to us.

It goes without saying that your concerns will be treated with absolute confidentiality both during the application process and during the coaching process!

Registration

Please use the online form to register.

Workshops and events

Below you will find currently planned workshops and events in the area of career planning and development.