PSI Career Center

The PSI Career Center supports PSI staff with career-related questions since 2018. Our services are mainly aimed at PhD students and postdocs. Other PSI employees can take advantage of them provided there is capacity, and after agreement with HR.

Highlights

Career Event - Job Search Strategies, July 3rd, 2024

This online career event attracted interest from almost 50 people within PSI, plus some additional participants from the other research institutions and ETHZ. Good luck to all of you finding your next job!

Mentoring für Nachwuchsführungskräfte, June 17th, 2024

We discussed about goals, roles and expectations, and made a first list what is important to be a good leader. Now, we are excited to hear about the mentee's journey together with their mentors. Thanks to the mentors for sharing their experience, the mentees for their interest in good leadership, and the mentees' line managers for supporting their participation in the program.

Workshop for Supervisors, June 14th, 2024

Thank you Urte and René for a great collaboration, and all the participants for wanting to learn about PSI's supervision framework and become better at supervising, communicating and giving feedback.

PSI FELLOW Career Symposium, June 13th, 2024

What a day filled with career inspiration, discussions and networking. A big thank you to Daniela Jahns and the PSI FELLOW Board for this great event!

Workshop at the CSNCH Meeting, June 7th, 2024

Honoured about the invitation to present a workshop on counseling PhDs and postdocs at the meeting of the Career Services Network Switzerland! Thanks to the organizers, other speakers, and all participants for a great event.

Swiss Culture & History at Eawag, May 29th, 2024

We had fun learning about the peculiarities of the Swiss, developing strategies for making friends, and diving into local history while tasting the famous Fondue. Thanks everyone for joining!

Career Blog

04.07.2024

•4 min

Do you want to use the summer break to advance your career?

Career Planning

Are you wondering what you can do over the summer to enhance your career prospects and improve your employability? Look no further, this blog post has some ideas to spark your curiosity, motivation and enthusiasm, and advance your career at the same time:

04.06.2024

•3 min

Scientist careers at our partner companies: Sara Da Ros, Head Strategic Supply Chain Projects at Siegfried

Career Opportunities

Our partner companies are interested in attracting PSI's early career researchers, and we introduce scientists working at partner companies to showcase career perspectives. In today's post, meet Sara Da Ros who did her PhD in organic chemistry at ETHZ and is currently Head of Strategic Supply Chain Projects at Siegfried. She tells us how she managed the transition away from academia, and what she is working on now.

06.05.2024

•4 min

Competencies our partner companies are looking for

Career Planning

Self-Assessment

How can you prepare for your next career step already during your PhD or postdoc time? Which skills are necessary and sought-after, and can you increase your chances by signing up for a relevant course? We asked the partner companies and collaborators of the PSI Career Center and the CONNECT program what they are looking for – and wrote this compilation based on inputs by ABB, APP, Axpo, Bain, cross-ING, Dectris, DETEC, Hilti, McKinsey, Sensirion, VDL and ZEISS

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