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Seminar series "Outside of Academina": #10 CV and job searching workshop

Do you want to know how to navigate the Swedish job market and job searching process?

Then join the workshop by Felicitas Rabiger from Grow Internationals AB (https://www.growinternationals.com).

This workshop will focus on how to navigate the Swedish job market and job searching process as an international. We will handle questions such as how to adapt your CV, how to build a network and make use of it, how to approach potential employers and how to plan a transition from academia to the business world. In order to make the most out of the workshop, please bring an updated CV and potential job ads that you would like to apply to.

Felicitas Rabiger is a career and intercultural trainer who is both German and Swedish, having lived in Sweden for the past 15 years with dual citizenship. She has extensive experience within adult education and education management, facilitating intercultural training, career coaching and partner support as well as teaching intercultural competence development within the American study abroad sector.

As there are limited spots, please register at the latest on 10.09.2024 using the following link: https://forms.gle/r5fkicdpAWLBchkY7

Schedule:

10:00 – 12:00 Workshop part I

12:00 – 13:00 Lunch break

13:00 – 14:00 Workshop part II

Contact:

For questions, please contact the organisers Tinkara Bizjak-Johansson (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) & Laura Tünnermann (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Are you new at UPSC?

We invite every newcomer at UPSC to participate in the Welcome Meeting. This meeting will be held twice per semester, four times per year and gives you important information about UPSC, how it is organised, who are your contact persons and will help you to find your way around at UPSC.

Please make sure to attend at least one meeting after your arrival at UPSC. We will serve fika for everyone participating.

We are looking forward to meeting you!

Johannes Hanson (Head of Department, UMU), Totte Niittylä (Head of Department, SLU), Ove Nilsson (Director of UPSC)

One of the greenhouses at UPSC (photo: Anne Honsel)

Have you ever wondered what it does look like inside the greenhouse on top of the roof? On Saturday, 19th of October between 13:00 and 16:00 o’clock, we at Umeå Plant Science Centre will open our doors for you and celebrate the 7th Fascination of Plants Day!

Learn more about the research we do at Umeå Plant Science Centre, try out your experimental skills and test your plant knowledge. You will also get the chance to take a look inside the greenhouse and other facilities within Umeå Plant Science Centre following guided tours.

Pass by and celebrate with us the fascinating world of plants!

You will find us close to Café KBC which will be open during the event.

Preliminary Programme:

All activities and tours are free of charge and will be mostly in English!

Activities:

• Fruits, veggie’s and more - Test your plant knowledge in our plant quiz
• The plant’s superpower – How can a couple of plant cells give rise to an entire new plant?
• Find the culprit – discover the plants’ microbial neighbourhood and identify the hostile neighbours
• Print your microscope – How can 3D printing help to make science more open?
• Transforming sunlight into sugars – how can we measure photosynthesis?
• How steady is your hand? Test your seeding skills under lab conditions
• Plants and nematodes - What happens when a plant is attacked?

Guided tours:

We will offer every tour once per hour at 13:15, 14:15 and 15:15 and they will last about 30min.

• Visit the greenhouse on top of the roof and get to know the plants we are researching with
• Discover the inside of plant cells and look through our advanced microscopes
• Learn about how it is to be a researcher in a lab and test your pipetting skills
• Take a look on our in vitro aspen nursery and learn how we modify trees
• Find out what biopolymers are and see how they can be analysed

Please note: The number of participants to the tours will be limited to 10. No pre-registration is possible before the start of the event. Place will be given on a ‘first come, first served’ basis!

Contact:

For questions, please contact: Anne Honsel (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

UPSC Scientific Advisory Board Visit

UPSC Scientific Advisory Board Visit

The Heads of Department invite to an information meeting about Swedish Academia. This meeting is especially addressed to PhD students and postdocs at UPSC and is organised once per year in November.

Are you new at UPSC?

We invite every newcomer at UPSC to participate in the Welcome Meeting. This meeting will be held twice per semester, four times per year and gives you important information about UPSC, how it is organised, who are your contact persons and will help you to find your way around at UPSC.

Please make sure to attend at least one meeting after your arrival at UPSC. We will serve fika for everyone participating.

We are looking forward to meeting you!

Johannes Hanson (Head of Department, UMU), Totte Niittylä (Head of Department, SLU), Ove Nilsson (Director of UPSC)

UPSC Christmas lunch

The Christmas lunch will start at 12.00 o'clock and will include e.g. rice pudding, ham, glögg and more.

Date: Wednesday, 4th December 2024

Place: tba

Are you new at UPSC?

We invite every newcomer at UPSC to participate in the Welcome Meeting. This meeting will be held twice per semester, four times per year and gives you important information about UPSC, how it is organised, who are your contact persons and will help you to find your way around at UPSC.

Please make sure to attend at least one meeting after your arrival at UPSC. We will serve fika for everyone participating.

We are looking forward to meeting you!

Johannes Hanson (Head of Department, UMU), Totte Niittylä (Head of Department, SLU), Ove Nilsson (Director of UPSC)

Are you new at UPSC?

We invite every newcomer at UPSC to participate in the Welcome Meeting. This meeting will be held twice per semester, four times per year and gives you important information about UPSC, how it is organised, who are your contact persons and will help you to find your way around at UPSC.

Please make sure to attend at least one meeting after your arrival at UPSC. We will serve fika for everyone participating.

We are looking forward to meeting you!

Johannes Hanson (Head of Department, UMU), Totte Niittylä (Head of Department, SLU), Ove Nilsson (Director of UPSC)