Anmeldung: First audition? Applying for Professorships

This course is primarily intended for postdocs and doctoral candidates at the end of their doctoral project.

Every scientist who decides to stay permanently in academia, sooner or later faces what is supposed to be career’s hardest challenge: Applying for full professorship.

The workshop aims to give you insights in the application procedure – a procedure that is highly formalized but often lacks transparency and differs in many aspects from other application formats in academia. In this seminar, we deal with your written application as well as topic-related and strategic advise for your selection interview, application presentation and demonstration lecture.

We focus on different aspects of the appointment procedure, such as typical and critical questions during the selection interview, potential snares during the demonstration lecture, or ambivalent interests among the members of the audition committee. Moreover, we work on how to present yourself and your academic profile successfully and how to emphasize your particular expertise.

Lernziele

• Structure of the appointment procedure for professorships in Germany
• Structure and design of application documents
• Presenting the academic profile in the application documents
• Rules for application presentations, demonstration lectures and interview