Workshop Offer from Our Network Partner MeCoSa MINT Career

Please note: This workshop is for female students only

Self-Confidence and Visibility in Networks!

Networking is the method with the best chances for professional success! Studies show that 70% to 90% of attractive professional positions inside and outside the academic world are found by consciously making yourself visible in the network. The right internal and external network contacts can facilitate and support work processes by encouraging and inspiring you.

During your studies, privileged groups of people continue to shape networking and determine structures, norms and rules. Based on various socialization factors, people who belong to marginalized groups in the university context are structurally disadvantaged to a greater or lesser extent.

This leads to particular challenges for women and other underrepresented groups of people, which are often associated with frustration, resistance and anger. In order to change your own behavior, you first need to understand and accept that it always feels a little fragile and vulnerable when you set out on a journey into unknown territory to expand your own network activities.

The workshop addresses the different ambivalences on the topic of visibility in professional networks.

The aim of the workshop is to enable the participants to reflect on themselves and their situation as students in a so-called "safe space" in order to develop a suitable network strategy for themselves.

The idea behind this is the comfort zone model: staying in the comfort zone with one foot, but actively leaving it with the other foot.

The workshop starts right here and serves to encourage and empower the participants to experience more self-efficacy and have fun making their own personality visible in relevant networks.

Workshop with

• Development of individual, solution-oriented strategies that can be integrated into the participants' personal everyday study life
• Exchange of experiences, perspectives and feedback from the peer group and from the coach

Maximum number of participants: 15 people

Where?

IBZ Magdeburg

Ernst-Lehmann-Str. 1, 39106 Magdeburg

Otto-von-Guericke-Universität, Gebäude 32

When?

16.10.2025, 8.45am-2pm

Language:

English 

Trainer*in:

Dr. Silke Oehrlein-Karpi 

Dr. Silke Oehrlein-Karpi has been working as a coach and trainer for people working at universities since 2008.

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