Our Career Development Program is aimed at all WU post-docs in tenure track positions. You are eligible for the program as soon as you have entered into a qualification or development agreement and this agreement comes into effect.

The goals set for you in your QA/DA and the resulting challenges are highly individual. To make sure our program really meets your specific needs, we meet with you for a personal consultation to put together your individual, custom-tailored Career Development package.

The peercoaching is the centerpiece of the program and therefore the only obligatory part. At those peercoaching sessions, moderated by an external coach, participants talk about individual QA/DA-related questions and career-specific challenges in a confidential setting. This program element gives you the opportunity to discuss what you know and have experienced with regard to fulfilling QA/DA requirements with your colleagues and to build up and strengthen your peer network. For a fruitful and productive exchange, we recommend regularly scheduled sessions (about eight over the course of a year, two to three hours each).

The coaching sessions focus on individual positioning and on topics relevant to your career. Working with an external coach, you will reflect on and clarify your own professional plans and goals. You and your coach will carefully analyze your skills, portfolio, and current situation and compare them to your defined goals with regard to your further career path (at WU or elsewhere, if applicable).

Up to six 60-minute sessions can be booked with a coach of your choice from the pool of available Career Development trainers.

Relevant forms

• Application for a coaching session

• Career coaching documentation sheet

• Post-coaching evaluation questionaire

Questions and issues that come up in the peer coaching sessions can be discussed in detail and answered by selected internal or external experts. The talks provide insights into areas relevant to you as an assistant professor and familiarize you with strategies (teaching, research, organizational) and important key people at WU.

Scheduled workshops

Here you can find an overview of our already scheduled workshops.

Custom workshops

Custom workshops can be planned and implemented according to your specific wishes and needs; minimum no. of participants: 5

As a participant in the program, you agree to complete the measures discussed in your personal consultation in the scope and time frame laid down with the Personnel Development Office.

Peercoaching is at the heart of the whole program. To make sure that both the group and you as an individual get the most out of it, you are expected to continually participate in the peercoaching sessions.

Like for other continuing education programs offered by the Personnel Development Office, you will be billed a deductible of € 20 for each seminar day or individual training session. You can either pay this yourself, or talk to your supervisor to find out if your academic unit will take over the costs.