Job Search and Application Skills

Language:
English

Fr., 15.11.2024, 4 pm - 8 pm
Sa., 16.11.2024, 9 am - 5 pm

This workshop is designed to help you develop your job search strategies, avoid common job application mistakes, prepare a powerful CV/Resume and Cover Letter that will secure you the job interview, and develop the effective communication skills, both written and oral, that you will need during the job application process.
Through a series of exercises, activities, and peer reviews, you will be coached in the practical tools necessary to create a dynamic, professional, captivating, and unique job application and in the skills necessary to secure your ideal job.

Topics covered in this workshop include:
• Understanding the job market
• Learning job search strategies and avoiding mistakes
• Preparing a job application that will get you the interview
• Writing a Cover Letter that will set you aside from your competition
• Creating a unique and powerful CV/Resume by assessing your strengths and weaknesses
• Tailoring your CV and Cover Letter to the position
• Selling and presenting yourself effectively
• Developing communication skills needed for the job application process
• Exercising appropriate follow-up communication (written and oral)
• Networking your way to your ideal job
• Salary negotiation tips
• Understanding the differences between German and English application materials
• Obtaining insights into cultural differences in the international environment
• Gaining the self-confidence necessary to land the job

Please bring a CV and a letter of application to the seminar as examples.

IMPORTANT: These seminars are paid for through student grants so you can use them free of charge. Please only register if you will definitely take part. If you register for a seminar and are absent without an excuse on the day of the event, you will be blocked from attending all future seminars! If you are unable to appear after registering, please unsubscribe early with a short e-mail to tf-stib@fau.de!

Comments on former seminars:
https://www.tf.fau.de/files/2020/08/feedbackapplicationonline.pdf