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Coaching & Counselling

Career Counselling

We provide counselling concerning all topics related to the postdoc phase, such as career and funding options, or career strategies. We are also pleased to assist you with legal, organizational or contractual issues. Our counselling is confidential and is based exclusively on your questions and career plans - whether you pursue an academic or non-academic career. We will also be happy to counsel you during a period of six months after the end of your contract.

Please contact us for an appointment for an individual counselling: 
 

Consultations are possible both online and in person. You can arrange a counselling appointment by telephone or e-mail via pcmo@admin.uni-giessen.de

Career Counselling

 
The goal of one's own professional path is sometimes unclear, limited to the near future or has to be redefined due to external circumstances or changing priorities. In order to proactively shape your professional future, the PCMO offers individual career counselling.

Central aspects of the consultation can be:
  • a self-assessment: the identification and analysis of one's own competencies, professional and personal values and ideal professional conditions in order to identify matching professional future scenarios,
  • career orientation: preparing career decisions and exploring career options,
  • the proactive career management in your everyday life.
 
For specific questions on the non-academic career path, in particular on science management you may contact  directly, for questions on the academic career path please refer to .

 

Leadership Counselling

Excellence in research often requires successful collaboration with students, doctoral candidates and other postdocs. Difficulties in leadership or communication cannot only limit the teamwork and the well-being of those involved, but may limit scientific productivity as well. The PCMO therefore offers leadership consulting for postdocs. The consulting service addresses postdocs who supervise students, lead their own junior research group or have coordinating function in collaborative research projects.
 

Jessica Grazi (Head of Human Resources Development at JLU) advises you on your leadership behavior and on cooperation in research projects with students or (peer) academic staff. The session will be confidential and tailored for you individually and to your questions or together with your team, if required.

Consultation for matters from your scientific discipline

Do you have questions concerning your discipline? Our consultants at the Graduate Centres will gladly assist you.
 
For advice on your teaching you can contact the university didactics: 

 

Further counselling at JLU and beyond

The JLU centres and departments offer postdocs various counselling services in the area of third-party funding:

The federal government's "Research and Innovation" funding advisory service also provides information on the federal government's research structure, funding programmes and current funding priorities. It also provides information on funding opportunities from the federal states and the EU.

 

Coaching

We offer two continuous coaching programs - Grant Writing Coaching and Digital Self-Presentation (see below) - for which you may book individual coaching slots at any time.

Career coaching with external coaches usually comprises 5 - 6 sessions of 60 minutes each. There are no costs for you. These are covered entirely by PCMO.

We have added two new digital formats to our range of individual coaching sessions:

Present yourself well - in digital meetings, application processes or conferences

Digital meetings have become part of our everday life. Just as in analogue communication, how we appear to our counterparts depends to a large extent on non-verbal signals. In addition, the situation in front of the screen brings its own unique challenges. We offer you individual coaching in which you can improve your digital self-presentation on various levels with a trainer, and subsequently present yourself and your topics more confidently and vividly. The coaching includes a short digital preliminary meeting, the recording of a digital conversation situation, analysis and the practice of changes (approx. 2 - 3 hours).

English Language Coaching

Are you in the process of writing a grant proposal? If so, you probably know how challenging this task can be and would probably appreciate some assistance in writing it. In order to provide focused support in this process, individual writing consultation sessions are now being offered, so that you can get some specific, tailored input on the language used in your proposal. These sessions will run for about half an hour and can be scheduled at any time.