BB841: Career Management Skills (5 ECTS)

STADS: 04014901

Level
Master's level course

Teaching period
The course is offered in the autumn semester.

Teacher responsible
Email: jamor@biology.sdu.dk

Additional teachers
kbh@sdu.dk
jdto@sdu.dk

Timetable
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Prerequisites:
This course cannot be chosen by students of BMB and Biomedicine.

Academic preconditions:
None.

Course introduction
The course aims to prepare students for the academic job market for science graduates.

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.

Expected learning outcome
The learning objectives of the course are that the student demonstrates the ability to:

• reflect on their own learning in relation to the biologically oriented academic labor market
• adopt an analytical approach to career as a concept and on a personal level as well as evaluate their own results

Subject overview
The following main topics are contained in the course:

• 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")

Literature
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Website
This course uses e-learn (blackboard).

Prerequisites for participating in the exam
None

Assessment and marking:


Expected working hours
The teaching method is based on three phase model.
Skills training phase: 20 hours, hereof:
 - Excursion: 14 hours

Undervisningsformen er workshoparbejde kombineret med forelæsninger, ekskursioner og en løbende kontakt til en tilknyttet mentor. Der er 7 undervisningsgange a 3 timer.Skills training phase: 20 hours, hereof:
 - Excursion: 14 hours

Educational activities

Educational form
The method of teaching is workshops  combined with lectures, field trips and regular contact to an assigned mentor.There are seven lessons 3 hours each.

Language
This course is taught in Danish.

Course enrollment
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Tuition fees for single courses
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