Career Thursdays

Discover who you are, where you would like to work and stand out from the crowd! Dynamic workshop sessions to strategize your next career move. Join Career Thursdays!

The first workshop, “SKILL DEVELOPMENT”

- Drive and Motivation: which roles do you (subconsciously!) allocate yourself to? (practical and immediate confronting exercise) (45 minutes)

- Building blocks of success: which fundamental principles and values will help you become successful in the Dutch labor market? (45 minutes theory)

- Pisa’s Tower: a biblical portrait of leadership: focusing on (soft) skills needed to perform (Communication, Planning & Organization, Problem Solving, Teamwork) successfully: both theoretical and practical exercise and interactive evaluation on both team- and individual performances. (lots of fun!)

The second workshop “TALENT MANAGEMENT” uses the ‘Business Canvas Model’ as a tool to visualize how each individual skill can be used and communicated as a talent and how these talents can be utilized as an added value and benefit to the organization.

- This tool will concentrate on their characteristics, their effectiveness, their personal organization, their added value, their benefits, their life experiences, their ambitions, their corporations, their investment and how all these talents form their contribution and purpose(!)

- This tool is something they will physically fill in during the workshop and take with them: participants can use this as a tool to communicate all their most important “features and benefits” and make themselves understood as an unique, irreplaceable, knowledgeable character.

The third workshop ‘’ADVANCED CAREER WORKSHOP’’ brings together the other two and focuses on teasing out who you are, which skills you have, how to present these to your employer, practicing answering some questions you might expect at an interview and more...

We recommend taking all three workshops in order to get full and well-rounded career advice and support!

TIMETABLE (all workshops from 10.00-14.00):
12 September: Skill Development - Salutem 1, VU Medical Faculty D132 (first floor, wing D, room 32)
19 September: Talent Management - Global Room, VU Main Building 1A-36 (first floor, wing A, room 36)
26 September: Advanced Career Workshop- Global Room, VU Main Building 1A-36 (first floor, wing A, room 36)
3 October: Skill Development - Global Room, VU Main Building 1A-36 (first floor, wing A, room 36)
10 October: Talent Management - Salutem 2, VU Medical Faculty D134 (first floor, wing D, room 34)
17 October: Advanced Career Workshop - Global Room, VU Main Building 1A-36 (first floor, wing A, room 36)
24 October: Skill Development - Global Room, VU Main Building 1A-36 (first floor, wing A, room 36)
31 October: Talent Management - Global Room, VU Main Building 1A-36 (first floor, wing A, room 36)
7 November: Advanced Career Workshop - Global Room, VU Main Building 1A-36 (first floor, wing A, room 36)
14 November: Skill Development - Salutem 2, VU Medical Faculty D134 (first floor, wing D, room 34)
21 November: Talent Management - Global Room, VU Main Building 1A-36 (first floor, wing A, room 36)
28 November: Advanced Career Workshop - Global Room, VU Main Building 1A-36 (first floor, wing A, room 36)