Design your academic career (online)

• 10.09.2024, 10:00 - 17:00

• 11.09.2024, 10:00 - 17:00: Break: 12.30 - 14.00

• 16.10.2024, 14:00 - 17:00: Follow-up

• Pardo Escher, Olga  ()

• Kursadministration, Development & Leadership, ETH Zürich  ()

In this workshop you will apply design thinking to your career and life beyond work. Together with other postdocs and established researchers, you develop a constructive and effective approach to finding and designing your vocation at the University or elsewhere by developing new thinking patterns and working on your future ideas.

• You will analyze what brought you where you are today
• You will define your current career challenges and ideate possible solutions
• You will break down possible solutions into actionable steps
• You will apply your learning and ideas by iteratively designing your way forward to a meaningful life.

You will

• understand your needs for a meaninful life
• have created many job ideas that match your needs
• have already taken steps to pursue some of your ideas
• adopt habits of prototyping and iterating to your vocation and take action instead of over-​thinking

• Established Researchers
• Postdocs

Sebastian Kernbach, https://www.lifedesignlab.ch/contact.html