A university education furthers one’s development and provides a solid foundation for
one’s future career. It opens up numerous opportunities, but knowing what to do with them
is often not an easy decision. This is where the Careers Services helps students,
doctoral candidates and graduates. How does it work? Every year we organise
over 100 seminars and workshops that focus on individual career orientation or provide
training in cross-disciplinary skills. In consultation sessions, our staff
helps students, for example, develop their own profile of expertise,
make decisions, or prepare for and follow up internships. We also assist students who are
interested in foreign work placements. Together with potential employers, we organise business simulations
and workshops where students can apply the skills they’ve acquired in their studies
and expand their professional networks. We also operate an extensive info portal
and applicant platform where users can view the latest job ads and internship offers.
The Careers Service provides instructors and faculties with ideas that enable
students to recognise the potential of their degree programmes and
strengthen their motivation to excel at their studies. In this way, students at the WWU
are offered an interconnected programme of high-quality courses from their departments and
assistance with developing their career perspectives from the Careers Service.
In other words, personal development and career perspectives go hand in hand.