Unsure about your next career move?
We are here to support you with key career topics, such as:
- Identifying and developing your competencies
- Defining your career goals
- Planning for the end of your contract
- Finding and evaluating the job opportunities
- Preparing strong application documents
- Navigating job and/or industry transition
Vision
- Be the central point of contact for PhDs, postdocs, and employers
- Encourage early engagement with career planning and personal development
- Connect companies and public institutions with highly qualified researchers
- Enable researchers to make informed career decisions (academia vs. industry, Switzerland vs. abroad, within vs. outside their field)
Mission
- Support PhDs' and postdocs' career planning through individual career counselling
- Organize courses, training, and networking events
- Act as a point of contact for employers in the fields of future technologies, energy and climate, health innovation and fundamentals of nature
- Collaborate with the PhD and Postdoc Association to stay close to researchers' needs
- Build valuable internal and external networks
Approach
- PhDs and postdocs are highly qualified experts, and responsible for their professional careers
- Line managers are the primary contacts for scientific career guidance
- The PSI Career Center offers complementary services to support PhDs, postdocs, and their line managers.
Contact
PSI Career Center
Forschungsstrasse 111
5232 Villigen PSI