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Career paths

Publications

• Wie soziale Klugheit die Karriere prägt
  Forschung und Lehre, 23. November 2021, Clemens Albrecht
  https://www.forschung-und-lehre.de/karriere/wie-soziale-klugheit-die-karriere-praegt-4204
   
• Die Entscheidung: Ein Ratgeberroman über akademische Berufswege
  Reinhold Haller, UTB 2022
  https://www.narr.de/die-entscheidung-45805/

 

Articles

• How a PhD student’s lab size affects their chance of future academic success
  Trainees in big research groups tend to go on to greater academic success than their small-group counterparts — but are more likely to quit academia altogether.
  Nature NEWS, 07 March 2025
  By Humberto Basilio
  https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00644-9
   
• More than 40% of postdocs leave academia, study reveals
  Publishing highly cited papers helps postdoctoral researchers to land a faculty job.
  Nature NEWS, 21 January 2025
  By Jackson Ryan
  https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00142-y
   
• How a peripatetic career made Emmanuelle Charpentier a Nobelist
  After working in 10 institutions across five countries, chemist explains why scientists need to leave the ‘comfortable life’
  Times Higher Education, 13. Juli 2023, Jack Grove
  https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/how-peripatetic-career-made-emmanuelle-charpentier-nobelist
   
• Why industry internships can be your ‘golden ticket’ to a prosperous career
  Nature Careers Community, 18 March 2021
  https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00730-8
   
• Why seek a single mentor when you can have three — or more
  Anna Henschel’s experience in seeking out a board of mentors enabled her to build a powerful support structure.
  Nature CAREER COLUMN, 25 November 2020
  https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03339-5
   
• A message for mentors from dissatisfied graduate students
  In this second article to mark Nature’s 2019 graduate survey, respondents call for more one-to-one support and better career guidance.
  Nature CAREER FEATURE, 20 November 2019
  By Chris Woolston
  https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03535-y

 

Webcast

• Webcast: How to plan your career
  Start early, use mentors, map your networks. Experts share their career development tips.
  Nature Career Column,  07 December 2021, Jack Leeming
  https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-03663-4

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Application process

How to prepare and search for a job

• German Scholars Organization: Bewerben in der Wissenschaft aus dem Ausland (in German)
  https://gsonet.org/karrierewissen/bewerben-in-der-wissenschaft/

 

How to write a motivation letter, CV etc.

Articles

• German Scholars Organization: Tipps für ein gelungenes Anschreiben für nicht-akademische Jobs (in German)
  https://gsonet.org/karrierewissen/tipps-fuer-ein-gelungenes-anschreiben-fuer-nicht-akademische-jobs/ 
• German Scholars Organization: Tipps für einen gelungenen CV für nicht-akademische Jobs (in German)
  https://gsonet.org/karrierewissen/tipps-fuer-einen-gelungenen-cv-fuer-nicht-akademische-jobs/
• Sell yourself and your science in a compelling personal statement
  Nature 593, 153-155 (2021)
  https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01101-z

 

Webcasts, podcasts etc.

Webcast

• How to write a great CV for academia and industry
  Nature Careers Live, October 2020
  doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00520-2

 

Job interviews

Articles

• Can you work with less-qualified people?’ and 19 other curveball questions to navigate at industry interviews
  Nature Career Column, 15 January 2021
  https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00042-x

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Career resources

Link collection

• Career resources for PhD students
  Nature
  The PhD is used to train most research scientists around the world and provides evidence of a gruelling period of independent study. But critics say many graduate student programmes have not adapted to accommodate changes in the workplace. Do PhDs need a rethink? This collection of articles and resources from across Nature Research looks at the PhD from a range of different perspectives.
  https://www.nature.com/collections/dhbegcaieb/?sap-outbound-id=3B5F5449469B30F171BBE45E84AF298902F2E207

 

Support services

• Career Service Universität Heidelberg (in German)
  https://www.uni-heidelberg.de/studium/imstudium/careerservice/
• German Scholars Organization: HiddenChamps (in German)
  https://gsonet.org/hiddenchamps/