BB841: Career Management Skills

On the course, the student learns to work with their academic skills and career resources in relation to a biological oriented public and private labor market. In addition, the students are introduced to a research-based career in universities.

The students will during the course will be trained to utilize their own career resources, communicate skills, promote themselves in writing in an application and a CV, understand and use networks active in the job search, build networks actively, researching before an application and before a job interview, go to job interviews and develop career strategies.

In relation to the competence profile of the degree it is the explicit focus of the course to:

• Give the competence to make personal career choices and set career goals (short and long term). Participate in a mentor / mentee relationship where career strategies eg can be tested in practice.
• Give skills to communicate own skills in writing and orally, identify and work with their own networks, researching companies and job search.
• Give knowledge and understanding of career skills and the academic labor market. Understanding of career resources (psychological, social, identity and human capital resources.

• Skills
• Network
• Job search, personality tests and job interview
• Job strategy

The student will be assigned a mentor from a public or private company. The students will throughout the course have regular contact with his mentor, and in addition, the student must follow his mentor a day on the job. (This is called "job shadowing")