Workshop "Performance – Strategic Career Planning for Doctoral Candidates"
Successful career planning is based on concrete knowledge of one's own motivation and a clear idea of the challenges of the coming years. The workshop encourages doctoral students to consider their (multi-year) career planning at an early stage.
A dissertation means many years of intensive work on a topic, to-do lists, coping with a flood of literature, collecting and analysing data, sometimes a low in motivation, followed by flow phases in which writing comes (more) easily, the satisfying prospect of the end of the doctoral process and finally the successful submission. Many doctoral candidates have to combine demanding project work and teaching activities alongside their own research project. In addition, there are the private challenges of family obligations, the social network with friends, their own household and possibly hobbies. This catalogue of challenges often makes doctoral candidates feel like "I'm just trying to get by".
The workshop "Performance – Strategic Career Planning for Doctoral Candidates" is not about providing a "patent remedy" for a successful career, but about encouraging individual career planning that fits in with everyday life. The "triple jump" of professional, private and regenerative factors is part of this workshop and is based on the trainer's experience of holistic career counselling – also in high-performance sport. The aim is personal career planning as a coordinating document for the realisation of professional and private goals ("perspective foresight"), competence as a performer in "day-to-day business" and, above all, suitability for everyday life. This planning paper – often "only" one DIN A4 page – is orientated towards individual career development in elite sport.
The basis for successful career planning is concrete knowledge about one's own motivation as well as a clear idea of the challenges of the coming years. The workshop encourages doctoral students to consider (multi-year) career planning at an early stage. Individual professional goals are identified in accordance with personal values and motives. Conscious career planning brings structure to everyday life and helps to master challenges efficiently and productively.
What issues are we concerned with?
- Career aspirations and visions: consistency of desire and reality
- Setting goals (goal planning and goal commitment) with regard to the compatibility of work and family/private life
- Values as individual "drivers" of one's own career and life planning
- Setting priorities
- Short-term and long-term career planning
- Building habits
Target group: Doctoral students with and without disabilities
Trainer: Andreas Hülsen, representative for the interests of university members and staff with disabilities, with many years of experience in career counselling – including in high-performance sport
The event is organised in cooperation with the Academic Staff Development Officer.
Registration by e-mail by 30/06/2025 at the latest to: sylvia.schmid@fh-potsdam.de
