Career Events

Key topics include:

• Usual misconceptions around the job search
  
• The difference between proactive and reactive job search strategies
  
• When and how to use different job search tools
  
• How to best prepare for and manage your job search
  
• What realistic results to expect
   

Key topics include:

• The particularities of the Swiss labor market
  
• Different industries and functions
  
• Types of career tracks
  
• Company characteristics and how company cultures can vary
  
• Additional resources to understanding the Swiss job market
   

Key topics include:

• Introduction to the work permit policy for non-EU/EFTA nationals in Switzerland
  
• What is the “facilitated process”?
  
• What support they I find and where?
   

Key topics include:

• Know how your expectations towards a career fair can be different to those of visiting firms
  
• Six steps to prepare your job fair visit:
  

1. Plan your route
   
2. Do your research
   
3. Prepare your materials
   
4. Perfect your pitch
   
5. Prepare your questions
   
6. Follow-up
   

• Managing first impressions
  
• Certain Do’s and Don’ts
   

Key topics include:

• Introduction to the informational interviewing technique
  
• How and why an informational interviewing can be impactful
  
• The difference between informational interviews and normal interviews
  
• How to identify persons to interview
  
• Preparing for the interview
  
• Follow-up
   

Key topics include:

• Why do we feel so uncomfortable with networking?
  
• Why is networking important?
  
• Are extraverts better networkers than introverts are?
  
• Networking for people who hate networking – a new definition of networking
  
• (optional) Informational Interviewing
   

Learn why it is important to define and establish your personal brand in the context of your career.

Key topics include:

• Different personal branding models
  
• How to convert your brand into tangible career marketing tools, in particular your LinkedIn profile.
  
• Why and how social media are relevant for their job search
  
• How to efficiently structure a LinkedIn profile, incl. Do’s and Don’t’s
  
• How to use LinkedIn as a job market, career exploration tool
  
• How to use LinkedIn to find jobs
  
• How to use LinkedIn to network
   

Key topics include:

• How to structure a typical CV
  
• Required sections for the Swiss job market
  
• Certain Do’s and Don’ts to CV writing
   

Key topics include:

• Why and how social media are relevant for their job search
  
• How to efficiently structure a LinkedIn profile, incl. Do’s and Don’t’s
  
• How to use LinkedIn as a job market, career exploration tool
  
• How to use LinkedIn to find jobs
  
• How to use LinkedIn to network
   

Key topics include:

• How to behave in a first interview and what should you expect
  
• Why the interviewer asks certain questions and what interviewers are really looking for.
  
• Impactful answering strategies (e.g. STAR method)
  
• Possible “tricky” situations
  
• Certain Dos and Don’ts of being interviewed
   

Key topics include:

• What is an Assessment Center?
  
• How/why they are developed and conducted?
  
• How to best prepare for an Assessment Center?
  
• What does a typical graduate Assessment Center look like – what can I expect?
  
• What do assessors look for?
  
• Some strategies to apply during the different Assessment Center exercises
   

Key topics include:

• Why is important to know your own salary expectations before going to an interview?
  
• The difference between salary and total compensation
  
• Salary as a decision criteria for accepting a job
  
• How/when to approach the salary topic during an interview
  
• How companies define salary bands
  
• Where to get benchmarking information on current salaries
  
• Negotiating salaries as a graduate – what options do I have?
   

Key topics include:

• Typical career misconceptions
  
• Beliefs underlying typical career misconceptions
  
• How these beliefs could be holding you back from being successful in your job search
  
• Rewiring your brain with positive beliefs
   

Key topics include:

• The difference in cultures and career paths in academia and industry
  
• Personal career motivations, values and interests
  
• Key stumbling blocks within your decision process
  
• Key questions to ask yourself before engaging onto one or the other career paths
  
• Key information to seek
   

Key topics include:

• Main differences between working in academica and working in industry:
  

1. Know what they will sign up for when entering an industry career
   
2. Know about the success factors in such a career
   
3. Know how to successfully start an industry career
   

• 5 critical skills for getting hired and promoted in industry
   

Key topics include:

• Introduction to the Thomas-Kilmann conflict management styles model
  
• Discover your own preferred style
  
• The pros and cons of each style and in which situations each style can be helpful
  
• Developing your flexibility to use each style
  
• Interacting with other styles
   

Key topics include:

• Introduction to the MBTI personality model
  
• Discover your own preferred style
  
• The pros and cons of each style and in which situations each style can be helpful.
  
• Developing your style
  
• Interacting with other styles