Career Center for Doctoral Researchers and Postdocs

The Career Center is the central contact and service point for all questions relating to the development of young talents during and after completing their doctorate. Our goal is to help you as a junior scientist to proactively and strategically develop your personal strenghts and competencies from the start. We support you in your decision-making and the subsequent planning and implementation of further steps. We help you to get to know and try out career paths within and outside of science. For the career tracks academia, business and science management we show you opportunities and support you in developing your potential.

Our offers

• an opportunity to gain qualifications (Please note, a membership is prerequisite.) and E-Learning formats
• individual counseling on career development and coaching for handling professional decision-making processes and career change
• regular events with the opportunity for interdisciplinary, academic and professional exchange and networking
• networking opportunities with other HZDR postdocs and Doctoral Candidates
• especially designed programs in order to get to know and try different career tracks: academia, business and science management

Further offers for Postdocs:

• support for individual development plan and career development conversation

• opportunities to participate in (cross-) mentoring programs

• opportunities to get involved by the Postdoc Council of the Postdoc Center HZDR-TUD
• the investigation of the current life and work situation as well as the concrete needs for qualification and support offers of the postdocs at HZDR and TU Dresden with regard to their further career within the framework of postdoc surveys

Further offers for Doctoral Researchers:

• opportunities to get involved by the DocReps
• HZDR Guidelines for Doctoral researchers and Supervisors
• Support for Supervision Agreement, TAC, and doctoral procedure

Offers for Supervisors:

Qualification opportunities on the topics:

• Leadership
• Management
• Good scientific practice

Do you want to take advantage of our offers? Feel free to contact us via email to careercenter@hzdr.de. We look forward to meeting you.

Here you can find all information in our flyer.

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The Postdoc Center out of which the Career Center was formed is a Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf and Technical University Dresden (TUD) joint project within the framework of the Graduate Academy of TUD. It is financed by the Initiative and Networking Fund of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centers.