… in the picture is trying to reach the telephone receiver with his ear. But at the moment, the Career Service is not so easy to reach by phone. The demand for counseling appointments is currently very high, and of course we can’t answer the phone during counseling. Therefore we ask you to send us a short e-mail (info@career.uni-siegen.de) with your request and your phone number. We will get back to you as soon as possible. – By the way, the blue plush toy that has found its place on my desk is a gift from Rainer Assion, who reported on career prospects in journalism and at WDR in career:FORUM. It was several semesters ago, but still in good memory. Thanks.
… our waiting area. Consulting and coaching can now take place in presence again. We schedule appointments so that all infection control rules can be well observed. We are looking forward to seeing you.
… are one of those things that sometimes bear a certain tendency to fail. My intention to write at least one blog entry a week didn’t work. Sorry. At some point there were all the other important things that had to be done and no time left for the blog. So now a new attempt and at the start a video. Maybe it will make you interested in one of our events. And this could also be the first step implementing the resolution to do something during your studies to make sure that your career will work out well after graduation. Good luck! The video is in German. We invite you to take a look at the “German in a Nutshell” page of our website.
… much to do, much too much in fact, and just now one comes to nothing, postpones everything and all the well planned tasks, especially those you were absolutely sure to do today, are undone. And it’s already 8 p.m. When you now ask yourself whether it could make sense to join a time management seminar, the answer probably may be: Yes. So why not joining the career:IMPULS seminar, this week on Thursday, from 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. One hour and the possibility to gain and refresh your time management knowledge and of course to get a few new ideas how you can organize time better, especially if one is straight in the application phase. Registration directly via mail to info@career.uni-siegen.de
… at least a little bit, even if you are actually happy that it has finally arrived, the long-awaited invitation to the job interview. Who wants to know how to prepare well and successfully for the interview, should visit career:IMPULS, this week, Thursday, 11.03.2021, at 5:00 pm. Registrations directly by mail to info@career.uni-siegen.de
Usually not so critical: Many applicants are afraid of critical questions, but usually the counterpart is not so critical, after all, the written application has convinced.
… that perhaps is the best recommendation to give, if one is dealing with the written application. But of course some background information is always helpful. So joining todays career:IMPULS “How to apply” is a good idea for everybody who wants to make his application more successful.
… heard the last lecture. It’s 5 p.m., the online university day is over, you turn around, still on the desk chair. You spent the whole day in front of your screen, and now, from one moment to another, you’re at home. And that brings you back to questions, perhaps discussed in the morning at the breakfast table with parents or friends, and you wonder what you can do with all the academic stuff, later in your professional life. And of course you still have some applications waiting to be sent. The application for the internship, mandatory in the next semester for example, and for the job, of course, which you hope is to follow the study, seamlessly, if possible.
This is exactly the situation the career:IMPLUS seminars have been designed for. In the evening, when your university work has been done, one hour focusing on a topic from the area of application and career planning. Compact information, background knowledge and many opportunities to get involved, so that no question remains unanswered and the evening is relaxed and made well use of. The goal: You can plan your career path with a new perspective.
Changing perspectives: It doesn’t always have to be the desk when inspiration turns into action.
… are not nice, of course. But if you look at them more closely, they are not such a bad way to start thinking about what you are doing right now and what you want to do in the future. To prevent your reflections from turning into musings, it is important to talk about them with others and to inform yourself. For this purpose, the central student advisory service is offering a digital theme day on Feb. 11, 2021. The Career Service will be there. The program can be found here: https://www.uni-siegen.de/zsb/psychologische/infoveranstaltung.html
Using creative methods: The snow on my small terrace as a whiteboard.
… and that makes me think of René Descartes and his „Discours de la méthode“, containing an autobiographic episode, where he describes how he, just passing through a small village near Ulm, prevented from continuing his journey by the unusually severe winter of 1619, found the leisure to contemplate his thoughts as he was enclosed all day alone in a small warm room.
Currently in the home office, browsing my home bookshelves, Descartes’ book fell into my hand and I got stuck on the little green volume, the bilingual edition of Felix Meiner Verlag.
Descartes contemplative time of leisure was the impetus for a text that, first published in 1637, has left its mark in the history of philosophy. Today, for me, in my profession as a counselor, it is an impulse to trust one’s own thinking, one’s own judgment, and to encourage the people I counsel to do the same.
Here are a few links as a suggestion to continue browsing and thinking about independent thinking and the impulses it can give one, for the diverse shaping of one’s own life path. Text editions freely available on the net:
… was a colleagues answer, to my question about his expectations for the coming 2021. The look of the little good-luck pigs on the office desk seem to say just that. The picture was taken before the Christmas lockdown at the Career Services office. The transparent bags were part of the package for employees, a small substitute for the Christmas party, combined with good wishes for a new year.
