==== Career planning – How to find your job on the non-academic labour market  ====
**[[start:pro:trainers:MZ|Dr. Matthias Zach]]**\\
**Target group: Early Career Researchers**\\
**Date: May 22 and 23, 2025**\\
**Time:10:00 - 17:00**\\

**Location: AEI Seminar room 132+133 (Callinstr. 36, 30167 Hannover) in Gebäude 3406**\\

**Registration**\\
Please register [[https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeSALU3GAV6idYaUl3bBe5Lrj5z_D0SQ28rWORwl3CT9RO2Ww/viewform?usp=dialog|here]] by April 6th, 2025.\\

**General Info**\\
The number of participants is limited.

**Description **\\
This workshop is about taking a proactive approach to career planning and development. It will familiarize you with strategies for exploring your career options in the non-academic labour market, and it will allow you to deepen your understanding of your skill set and your job-related wishes and needs.

Topics covered include:
  * Research careers vs. careers in the non-academic labour market: commonalities and differences
  * My professional and personal competencies: the basis for finding suitable positions
  * Typical, and less typical, non-academic jobs and career paths for PhDs and postdocs
  * Strategies, methods and tools for finding suitable positions
  * Project management: reflecting upon my career goals and planning my next steps
In addition, there is room for additional questions and concerns you may have.\\

Trainer: As a trainer and coach for the Karriereberatung für Akademiker*innen (www.kabeak.de), Dr. Matthias Zach counsels researchers and scientists on all relevant aspects of their careers.\\