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Work opportunities for spouses and partners:
The Dual Career Service

If your spouse or partner has applied for a professorship, an academic post or some other top-level position at Münster University, the University will also provide support for you personally in mapping out your professional prospects.
The Dual Career Service wants to know your professional aims and help you to find your feet in Münster. We will provide support for you in looking for vacancies that correspond to your profile. We organize contacts to employers and look for appropriate further training opportunities and useful internships or work placements. We agree every single step with you.

Contact	Gabriele Wolter
Address	Schlossplatz 2 \| 48149 Münster \| Germany
Telephone	+49 251 83-22163
E-mail	dual.career@uni-muenster.de
Website	Dual Career Service

Information

The Dual Career Philosophy

The Dual Career Service was set up as part of the certification process leading to the award of the title “family-friendly university”. With this service Münster University supports the professional development of spouses and partners who are also looking to take on new challenges. Active networking with internal and external cooperation partners ensures that there is a purposeful exchange of information and that valuable contacts are set up. This is a guarantee of quality in the help we offer.

The aim of the Dual Career Service

To attract professors, top academics and staff to high-level positions
To promote the compatibility of work, partnership and family life
To attract two sets of brains to Münster
To counter the lack of qualified personnel

What we offer

The service we offer is aimed at the partners of

newly appointed professors
professors negotiating to stay
other top academics
junior academics
other people in top positions

Help in applying for jobs

drawing up a profile
research
internet addresses on job exchanges
organizing contacts
check of application portfolios
organization of job interview training

Support and advice on questions relating to professional development

arranging appropriate further training
arranging language courses
information on research projects
information on funding
work placements / internships

Duration of support: about one year

Special items relating to foreigners or returnees from abroad will be taken into consideration.

Questionnaire for the first contact (pdf)

Cooperation

Within Münster University

Outside Münster University

Other universities and academic institutions
Public institutions such as chambers of commerce and industry, regional government, the city of Münster, Münster business development office
Professional organizations and assocations
Women’s businesses and networks
Münsterland e.V.
Job Centre

Dual Career Services

North Rhine-Westphalia
Germany

Plus …

If the family comes with you there will naturally enough be further issues, such as

day-care facilities for children and schools
moving and looking for accommodation
social insurance

The Dual Career Service will give you the names of appropriate people to contact with regard to these or other questions. We can also arrange contacts with other families who are new to Münster.

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