Courses

This video course provides essential strategies to navigate the job search and application process in Germany. With ~5 hours of content, it serves as both a step-by-step guide and a quick reference for key topics like career paths, CV optimization, Cover Letter formulation, and interview preparation.

It helps international job seekers tackle common challenges, find job openings, and build professional networks using tools like LinkedIn and conducting informational interviews. Special focus is given to academia vs. industry career paths.

You’ll learn to craft strong applications, ace interviews, and use ChatGPT to enhance your job search. Designed for researchers across disciplines, it also includes industry-specific and Life-Sciences-specific content.

You can use this course in two ways:
1 – As a step-by-step guide – to guide you through the entire application process.
2 – As a reference work – to jump directly to the sections of your interest.

This course gives you the chance to reflect upon your own communicative behavior, to understand fundamental axioms, models, and techniques. It allows you to enrich your upcoming communication with directly applicable, valuable strategies.

We will look at four areas:
How to care for your relationships
How to share feedback and master difficult conversation
How to be and appear confident
How to be a great communicator

This course is provided in a hybrid online format, consisting of two live-online meetings and many videos in advance and between both meetings.

In the meetings you will be able to deepen your understanding by applying the methods and exercises, role-plays, you will discuss in small groups and with partners, we will discuss your questions and look at your individual cases.

This course gives you a chance to reflect upon and improve your own individual communicative behavior and style.

Thus, sign up for it right now :-)

In this course you will learn everything relevant for finding your next position of your dreams :-)
This course is specifically designed for Doctoral Candidates and Postdocs in the Life Sciences.

These four big areas will be covered:

How to find your dream Job:
1. Which job(s) suit you? / Which career paths are available out there?
2. Where to find open positions
3. How to convince with CV and CL
4. Mastering the Job Interview

Highly recommended for all doctoral candidates or postdocs who want to have a great start into their career.

Unlock the secrets of compelling scientific talks with Dr. Matthias Mayer in this intense hybrid online course! You will train essential skills for effectively presenting your research to your audience. Learn to craft crystal-clear content, design impactful slides, and master the art of convincing on both physical and virtual stages. Elevate your presentation game with individual feedback, practical exercises, and a proven methodology. Whether you're delivering a TAC talk or a public presentation, this course ensures you leave with the tools to captivate any audience.

This hybrid online format consists of two live online meetings, in which you will present and receive feedback, as well as videos and tasks that you will need to watch / work on before and between the two meetings.