Academic Career Development Office

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The Academic Career Development Office offers you a comprehensive range of information and advisory services that focus on the specific challenges of the various career phases - be it the qualification phase of the doctorate, the orientation phase as a postdoc, or the profile phase on the way to a professorship.

We support you in your individual career development, both within the academic system and on career paths in business and society, through various programmes.

We offer you:

"Starting Your PhD" Peer Coaching

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Peer Coaching "Doing Research in Germany"

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"Option Promotion" Day Event

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Workshop "Going Abroad During the Doctorate"

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Newsletter for Early Career Researchers

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Event Series "Career Spotlight: From PhD to..."

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Interdisciplinary Office Hours

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The Jenny Aloni Centre for Early Career Researchers

However, doctoral candidates and postdocs at Paderborn University are not only advised and supported by the Academic Career Development Office, but also by a large number of institutions throughout the university. The Jenny Aloni Centre for Early Career Researchers, which is coordinated by the Academic Career Development Office, brings them all together, ensuring the continuous development of the services on offer. Numerous colleagues from the administration offer you a wide range of interdisciplinary counselling and support services. The website of the Jenny Aloni Centre for Early Career Researchers brings together all these interdisciplinary services for doctoral candidates and postdocs at Paderborn University. In addition, the Graduate Centre of your faculty will provide you with subject-specific support.