Workshops PhACE - 19 June 2023
During this alternative PhACE edition 2 workshop session rounds are offered. You can choose 1 workshop per round. In total you will follow 2 workshops. The workshops may be subject to change.
You can still register via the: PhACE Registration Form
Workshop Session 1: Monday 19 June (11h00 - 13h00)
"Exploring your motivation and skills"
Is your PhD coming to and end and are you in doubt about what to do next?
In this workshop, we will explore these questions to find out what is in your wheelhouse. By consciously and interactively engaging with these themes, you will find out what it is you really want.
Experienced career coach Rutger-Jan Scholtens (UU Career Services) will encourage you to look at different aspects of yourself and your life to extract information for your future. By mapping your interests, capabilities, motives and career values, you will determine what is (most) important to you.
After the workshop, you will be better able to consider the jobs, organizations and tasks that fit your preferences. And you will continue your job search with more self-knowledge and more self-confidence.
Discussing strengths and qualities with your colleagues is one of the best ways to enhance your personal efficacy. Acknowledging your personal skills is the first step towards putting these into practice. Moreover, it raises your self-esteem. And that turns out to be crucial when applying for a job or a grant or when you need to expand your network.
In this two-hour workshop Jeanine de Bruin, an experienced trainer from Hakuna Matata, science & media will teach you how to:
- Identify and know your strengths in terms of skills and qualities.
- Avoid your pitfalls and put your qualities optimally
- Boost your self-esteem when applying for a job or a grant.
- Communicate effectively about your qualities.
In this workshop there will be given a way to explore your core-qualities and to see these strengths in yourself work mostly in your favour and sometimes against you. Self-awareness is fundamental to be a future leader and/ or project manager. We will give 3 important moments in the exploration of your next career step where it is very useful to have a good impression of your personal qualities. Except this the question: What do you bring for our company? Is a standard question in a job interview. Awareness of your 4 or 5 personal qualities is the basis for preparing a job interview.
Results
We will explore your strengths and weaknesses by:
- Exploring your values, cultural background and upbringing.
- Discovering your personal view on your strengths and weaknesses.
- Analysing 4 or 5 personal successes.
- At the end of the workshop a fairly clear image of your personal qualities will emerge. The workshop gives you guidelines to continue to explore your core qualities and how to use this knowledge in a job interview.
- Furthermore, it will give direction for personal coaching topics.
Trainer
Harry Linders (Bureau Loopbaanplanning) is a career counselor since 1993 and he was involved in several projects on different levels regarding employability. His working experience is divers but PhD candidates are a regular part of his work since 1996. In 2000 he became a registered career advisor in the CMI program. In 2007 he started his own bureau and now he has several assignments in training and advising people entering the working process or continuing their career. During this period he collected a fair knowledge about the actual labour market.
As a scientist you are probably well aware of your scientific knowledge and research skills. You may be less conscious however of many other skills that you have developed so far that you apply in all sorts of situations. These ’transferable skills’ could be what makes you stand out from the rest. During this workshop, through practical exercises, you will learn what transferable skills are and identify at least ten skills that you possess. You will also practice to provide examples to be used during job interviews or network conversations.
Trainer
Dr. Astrid ter Wiel (Hertz Training for scientists)
Workshop Session 2: Monday 19 June (14h00 - 16h00)
"Enhancing your skill set"
Different people have different objectives and they try to overcome these differences through negotiation. This occurs everywhere in research and each researcher enters into a negotiation of some sort at least once a day.
PhD students for instance have to negotiate about:
- The focus of their research project;
- How much time they spend teaching others;
- Career issues like their salary, responsibilities and developing their talents;
- And other topics…
The question always seems to be: Should the negotiation be soft or hard? In this two-hour workshop Jeanine de Bruin, an experienced trainer from Hakuna Matata, science & media will teach you how to:
- Prepare for a negotiation focussed on career issues;
- Communicate your wishes effectively;
- Find a balance between the result and the relationship.
After you have created a CV, motivation letter and applied to your preferred company, you have taken the first step. Now you are invited to the first round of the application procedure: the job interview.
In this first contact it is very important to make a good impression. Before going to the interview, make sure you know the application procedures and what you have to offer your potential employer (skills/qualities). A good preparation is a key factor to a successful job interview. In this workshop we will share information about how to prepare a job interview and practice possible questions which may be asked during the first interview. For example; how to present your PhD in the Dutch labour market and how you can benefit from this.
Trainers
Harry Linders (Bureau Loopbaanplanning)
Caroline Vermeulen (Specialist in Strategic & Executive Recruitment)
When looking for a new job, newspapers and the internet are NOT your most valuable sources of information. Your personal network is!
By strategically using and enlarging your network, you can drastically increase your chances of finding the right position for you. This workshop helps you fill your networking ‘toolkit’. You will gain insight in the current status of your network and will learn a step-by-step approach to enlarging your network in the direction important to you. The workshop consists of a little theory mixed with a lot of practice. You have lively interaction with the trainer and your fellow participants.
Target group
Anyone who wants to know how they can make more use of their network for finding career opportunities.
Results
Through the exercises in this workshop you will gain hands-on experience in making your network work for you.
Trainer
Bas Dijkhuis
Persuasion is an art! In order to position yourself well for your future job, it’s important to consider how you present yourself and your ideas in a persuasive way. Yet, although sharp arguments and a compelling vision go a long way, being more empathic and understanding turns out to be a key ingredient for more effective influence.
Respectful persuasion is about setting people in motion without using nasty tricks. During this workshop you will gain insight into what moves people and how to motivate them for your proposals. It’s about sensitivity and understanding group dynamics. We will work on practical techniques that will make your communication authentic and respectful as well as more effective.
We will work on the basis of four themes:
- Inspiration – speaking from what truly matters and motivates others
- Emotional intelligence – understanding others and dealing with resistance
- Intention – awareness of how intentions shape effectiveness in communication
- Empathic communication - creating support and building relations
Learning by doing is the motto, so you can expect practical exercises in which you will put the effectiveness of your communication style firmly to the test!
Trainer
Imre Végh (Project Wisdom: www.projectwisdom.nl)