Job Search and Application Process

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Fr., 17.11.2023, 4 pm - 8 pmr
Sa., 18.11.2023, 9 am - 5 pmr
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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.r
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.r
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Topics covered in this workshop include:r
• Understanding the job marketr
• Learning job search strategies and avoiding mistakesr
• Preparing a job application that will get you the interviewr
• Writing a Cover Letter that will set you aside from your competitionr
• Creating a unique and powerful CV/Resume by assessing your strengths and weaknessesr
• Tailoring your CV and Cover Letter to the positionr
• Selling and presenting yourself effectivelyr
• Developing communication skills needed for the job application processr
• Exercising appropriate follow-up communication (written and oral)r
• Networking your way to your ideal jobr
• Salary negotiation tipsr
• Understanding the differences between German and English application materialsr
• Obtaining insights into cultural differences in the international environmentr
• Gaining the self-confidence necessary to land the jobr
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Please bring a CV and a letter of application to the seminar as examples.r

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.

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Instructor:r
Dr. Teresa Burnsr
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Comments on former seminars:r
https://www.tf.fau.de/files/2020/08/feedbackapplicationonline.pdfr
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Event venue:r
K2-119 - Seminarraum, Erwin-Rommel-Straße 60, 91058 Erlangen.r
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Registration information:r
https://www.apps.tf.fau.de/seminaranmeldung/?sem=593r
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Language:r
Englishr
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Contact:r
TF -Student information/advicer
tf-stib@fau.der
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