Präsenz-Workshop: First audition – applying for professorship

The workshop aims to give you insights into the application procedure for professorships (Focus: Germany) – a procedure that is highly formalized but often lacks transparency and differs in many aspects from other application formats in academia. In this seminar, we deal with your written application as well as topic-related and strategic advice for your selection interview, application presentation and demonstration lecture. We focus on different aspects of the appointment procedure, such as typical and critical questions during the selection interview, potential snares during the demonstration lecture, or ambivalent interests among the members of the audition committee. Moreover, we work on how to present yourself and your academic profile successfully and how to emphasize your particular expertise.

Schedule:

Day 1:

09:00 (incl. short breaks)
Welcome & overview
Behind the curtain: Structure of the appointment procedure (Berufungsverfahren)
Professor wanted: Walking a mile in the committee’s shoes
Application documents – Your admission ticket I
- Job advertisement: recognizing and demonstrating fit
- Exercise: Analyzing job ads

12:00
Lunch break

1:00 pm (incl. short breaks)
Application documents – Your admission ticket II
- Motivation letter, CV, further documents
- Exercise: Make the academic profile visible (motivation letter)
Research and teaching profile
Invited? Congrats!
- What happens during the ‘audition’?

Day 2

09:00 am (including short breaks)
Application presentation (Berufungsvortrag)
- Choosing the topic and title
- Preparation
- 3 min presentation plus video recording
- ‘Committee feedback’

12:00
Lunch break

1:00 pm (incl. short breaks)
Demonstration lecture
The interview I
- Preparation
- Good questions – great answers
The interview II
- Simulation and analysis

4:45 pm
Summary & evaluation

Supplementary information
The seminar includes subsequent process support. The participants have the possibility send their application documents to the trainer when they enter the application phase and receive written receive written feedback on possible improvements.
Gender-sensitive language is used in the seminar. Gender aspects of the individual topics are will be discussed, demonstrated and debated at appropriate points.

Fees

*This fee also applies to postdocs from the other universities in the Postdoc Network Brandenburg (PNB) – BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder).

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