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Published: 2009-04-15

Career Day for PhD students - 21 April

NEWS Umeå University welcomes all doctoral students to attend Career Day on Tuesday the 21st of April. The event is a collaboration with the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) and will be held in the MIT building on campus.

All PhD students at Umeå University and SLU are invited to attend Career Day. There will be parallel sessions with lecturers from all faculties here in Umeå and workshops on such subjects as how to write research applications. Since the university has a diverse body of  students with different backgrounds and visions, a wide variety of speakers as possible will be presented.

Career Day begins at 8:15 am and concludes with an afterwork gathering including a buffet, so you should register for the enitre day. The aim is that all doctoral students take the opportunity to attend this special event, whether they have just started or will be finishing their degree in the near future.

When: 21 April, 8:15 am - 5:00 pm
Where: in the MIT building (see map)
Registration: You can now register for the day via this link. All activities during the day are for free.

Programme:

8:15 am -  I continue my career via:

  • The public sector
  • Academia (a representative from every faculty)
  • A company

10:00 am - Coffee Break
10:30 am - CV writing workshop

  • Approach after the dissertation
  • Thoughts to consider before an academic career
  • To work in another country
  • Where have previous PhD students proceeded?

12:15 pm - Lunch
1:00 pm -  I was also a PhD student, Vice-Chancellor Göran Sandberg
2:00 pm -  Uminova, to start your own company

  • Where are the research level educated really needed?
  • How to write a grant application
  • Labour unions; SACO, and others

Coffee will be served during this session
Approx. 6:00 pm - After workbuffet at Origo student union building

For further information, contact hanna.johansson@plantphys.umu.se