PSI Career Center - Who we are & What we do

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 
  • 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)
  • 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
  • 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.

PSI Career Center
Forschungsstrasse 111
5232 Villigen PSI

careercenter@psi.ch