Career Days 2021

Online career fair for PhD students and Postdocs

Don't leave your future to chance – learn more about your future job opportunities.

It is our great pleasure to invite you to a career fair for PhD students and Postdocs – this year as an online event during three days. There will be several career workshops in the mornings, and in the afternoons company sessions with presentation of exciting  possibilities in different companies and lots of time to Q&A. The programme also includes a Postdoc inspiration session focusing on the importance of this career step.

The event is organised by three graduate programmes affiliated with the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen:

Registration

You need to sign up for the event via the Registration form.
Registration deadline 24 October....REGISTRATION IS CLOSED! 

  • Participation in workshops requires registration for each workshop specifically, as the number of seats is limited (details in the registration form).
  • Participation in company sessions does not require pre-registration. However, you will still need to sign up for the event.

Programme

Links to the sessions (Zoom, MS Teams or similar platforms) will be send to the participants after registration deadline.
We recommend that you download the online platform app before entering the sessions.

Monday 1 Nov Tuesday 2 Nov Wednesday 3 Nov

09:00-10:15
Opening session:
Kim Jensen, MoMeD
Nanna MacAulay, NeuroGrad
Jukka Rantanen, DRA

08:30-10:30
Workshop 2:
Identify your Job Motivation
Iben Treebak, PharmaDanmark

08:30-10:30 
Workshop 4:
How to become a LinkedIn Master
Morten Vium, Netværksakademiet

10:30-12:00 
Workshop 1: 
Postdoc Funding - how to get started?
Cecilie Ydemann Hansen, Research Support, SUND, UCPH

 

10:30-12:00
Workshop 3:
Competence mapping – identify your transferable skills
Mette Fog Skriver, UCPH 

10:30-12:30
Workshop 5:
Write a good CV and personality tests
Novo Nordisk

BREAK BREAK BREAK
Academic session
Company sessions
Company sessions

13:00-14:00
How to get your first postdoc position 

13:00-13:45
Lundbeck A/S

13:00-13:30
Novo Nordisk

14:15-15:15
Beyond postdoc:
Young group leaders

14:00-14:30
Statens Serum Institut

13:45-14:15
Symphogen

15:30-16:30
Alternative career options within academia

14:45-15:15
AstraZeneca Sweden

14:30-15:00
Novartis



15:30-16:00
Danish Medicines Agency

15:15-15:45
Gubra



16:00-16:30
AstraZeneca, UK

Looking forward to "seeing" you!
The programme collaboration steering committee:

  • Professor Kim Bak Jensen, Head of MoMed
  • Professor Jukka Rantanen, Head of Drug Research Academy
  • Professor Nanna MacAulay, Head of NeuroGrad
  • Marianne W. Jørgensen, DRA Administrator and PhD Coordinator
  • Lotte Endsleff, DRA Programme secretary
  • Jette Gjerke Hemmingsen, MoMed coordinator
  • Anne Schultz Vognsen, MoMed coordinator