CENTRAL ADVICE CENTERS
Career Service, Career Counseling
Our tasks
- Counseling and coaching on career entry and application strategies
- Provision of research opportunities for job market orientation
How we support you
The Career Service's personal counseling supports students in their career planning and career entry.
- Career and career coaching
- Information on industries and career research
- Individual career planning, professional orientation
- Sharpening of the applicant's own profile
- Application strategies, job search (also with social networks)
- Application portfolio check
- Preparation for job interviews and salary negotiations
- Potential and skills analysis
Further information and contact
Start-up service
Our tasks
- We support and advise you on all issues relating to start-ups and company formation.
- We organize start-up business games, boot camps and ideas competitions to provide the right impetus.
- We offer specialist lectures in the fields of law, taxes and insurance.
- With the SQuArE makerspace, we provide space for networking, exchanging ideas and developing prototypes.
How we support you
- With the question of whether self-employment is an alternative for you
- With orientation regarding the various aspects of
setting up a business
- In the development of the business concept
- When applying for specific funding programs (e.g. EXIST start-up grant, NRW start-up grant)
- When developing prototypes
- In the search for co-founders
- Networking with relevant partners in our start-up ecosystem
Further information and contact
General student advisory service
Our tasks
Counseling in all matters relating to your studies.
How we support you
- Study orientation for a Master's degree program
Further information and contact
Graduate Center
Our tasks
We answer your questions about the path to a doctorate. We advise people interested in doing a doctorate as well as current doctoral candidates and their supervisors. We network these target groups with each other and offer regular information and training events.
How we support you
- With questions about whether the path to a doctorate and research suits you and which skills you should bring with you or acquire along the way
- In compiling individual and interdisciplinary information on the doctoral process
- In developing a structure for your next steps
- We provide you with support and tips if you encounter challenges before or during the project
VIA* feedback (suggestions, ideas and proposals)
Our tasks
The VIA* team is a point of contact for suggestions, ideas, proposals and complaints. These can be communicated in person, by telephone or in writing. Anonymous reporting is possible via the contact form.
How we support you
- We take care of every request, whether ideas, praise, criticism or simply a question.
- If necessary, we will put you in touch with the right contact person.
- We treat every contact confidentially, anonymously if you wish.
CONSULTING WITHIN THE DEPARTMENTS
Student advisory service
Our tasks
The Student Advisory Service is aimed at prospective and current students as well as those changing courses (internal and external course changes). Pre-professional counseling is also one of our tasks.
How we support you
- For questions about career choices
- Student Advisory Service Faculty of Applied Social Sciences
- Student Advisory Service FB Architecture
- Student Advisory Service FB Design
- Student Advisory Service Department of Electrical Engineering
- Student Advisory Service Department of Computer Science
- Student Advisory Service FB Information Technology
- Student Advisory Service Department of Mechanical Engineering
- Student Advisory Service Business Studies
EXTERNAL PARTNERS
Employment Agency
Our tasks
- Counseling for students and graduates
- Counseling on taking up an apprenticeship
- Counseling on applications, career entry and careers
How we support you
We are the people to talk to if you:
- want to further develop your career goals
- want to find out about developments on the job market
- want to design your individual application strategy
- want to optimize your application documents
- want to orient yourself on the job market
Personal counseling
- during your studies and in case of doubts
Thorsten Prall (T: 0231 842-1104) and Andreas Rosin (T: 0231 842-2063)
Consultation hours: Tuesday and Thursday, 9:00-12:00 and 13:00-16:00 - for graduates
Sofia Papadopoulou (T: 0231 842-1345)
Consultation hours: Wednesday, 9:00-12:00 and 13:00-16:00
Where?
North Campus, Emil-Figge-Str. 68, G3, Room 4.29, 4th floor
E-mail: dortmund.hochschulearbeitsagenturde