Roadmap to Your Dream Job – A Simple and Effective Approach to Career Change | Part III
SUMMARY In this article, I present the principles that make career transitions more effective and enjoyable. If you haven't read parts I and II of this series, you can follow the links below: the 5-Phase-Model that will provide orientation for the process of career...
Roadmap to Your Dream Job – A Simple and Effective Approach to Career Change | Part II
SUMMARY This is the second part of a three-part blog article series about a systematic and structured approach to career change. This part is about the HOW to implement the action steps outlined in the first article. Here is the overview of the series: the...
Roadmap to Your Dream Job – A Simple and Effective Approach to Career Change | Part I
SUMMARY What follows is a lot of tightly packed information about how to change from one career field to another field or industry. The information consists of the 5-Phase-Model that will provide orientation for the process of career transformation the Test-and-Learn...
“I had no idea that I was such an asshole to myself” – The effects of Nonviolent Communication in a stress management programme at Max Planck Society
In August 2022, I gave a talk at the 1st ReMO conference for Researcher Mental Health, in Budapest. What follows is the script that helped me improvise during the talk itself 😉 Note of thanks I am grateful for Dr. Christiane Haupt's trust in me. It it thanks to...
What I learned from Etty Hillesum
I’m struggling to start writing this piece on Etty Hillesum’s diaries from the years of 1941 to 1943. I’m struggling because the horrors of that time are inconceivable to me and because I fear that nothing I could write could do justice to that. My hesitation stems...
Getting your first job after academia – luck or merit?
“I don’t mean to be offensive or anything about your workshop, but getting that job, for me, was just pure luck.” Nadia looks at me with the unapologetic expression I remember from the last time I saw her, almost a year ago. Back then, we had a one-on-one session on...
