Career planning, job applications, and starting your career

The Career Center at Humboldt-Universit?t offers workshops and events on topics such as job application training, career planning, and soft skills. These help students and graduates prepare optimally for their career start and make valuable contacts.

Our offer at a glance

We support you in your orientation, reflection, decision-making and goal implementation and advise you on the labour market, application and selection procedures. Take advantage of our events and resources during your studies or up to one year after graduation.

Career orientation, job search, application or career planning - there are often more questions than answers. In our Q&A sessions, we provide you with compact impulses and address your individual concerns. All sessions take place online and can be attended without registration.

Our interactive workshops on the topics of job search, application, career planning and career entry are aimed at students and graduates of all disciplines. You can continue to take advantage of our programme for up to one year after graduation.

 

The courses are aimed at students on Bachelor's and Master's degree programmes and can be credited with one credit point each in the ?WP area.

 

Together with nine colleges and universities in Berlin and Brandenburg, we organise the Career Week Berlin Brandenburg for you every spring. Take part in a week of events at all universities and colleges, network with employers and prepare for your career entry together with other students and graduates.

The next Career Week will take place from 23-27 February 2026.

The programme will be published here shortly.

Q & A Sessions

Self-tests for appointments

21.01.2026 | 17:00-18:00

This interactive session is all about self-tests, aptitude diagnostics and personality tests - and how these tools can help you to better recognise your strengths, interests and potential. Find out what these tools can do, what their limitations are and how you can use them to make sense of your appointment.

Registration is not required. You can join the session directly at the appropriate time.

Worried about the future? Gaining security in the transition from studies to appointment

04.02.2026 | 17:00-18:00

The transition from studies to an appointment often feels uncertain - especially in a society and working world in flux. In this session, we will talk about worries about the future and challenges and show five concrete factors that can provide orientation and security. With practical tips for first steps and space for individual questions.

Registration is not required. You can join the session directly at the appropriate time.

Workshops

Burn out? - Cool down! Mastering the work of the future in a healthy way

30.01.2026 | 10:00-13:00

In this digital workshop, we will analyse and reflect on 5 central factors of (over)demand in modern working environments. In small groups, we will develop strategies - not only to increase our own resilience but also to develop a healthy attitude.

  • Information overload - the flood of emails, messages, documents and data
  • Ambivalent roles and expectations - uncertainty about responsibilities, especially in agile or matrix-organised companies
  • Change fatigue - adjustment stress due to continuous change (e.g. through digitalisation, new working methods, restructuring)
  • Work-life integration - the increasing merging of work and private life
  • Workforce entrepreneurship - the demands on personal responsibility and self-management

 

PeerCollective - Learn. Network. Grow.

06.02.2026 | 10:00-13:00

Many graduates are familiar with the situation: you work alone on applications, optimise your CV - and yet you feel that something is missing. Feedback, contacts, resonance - in short: a supportive network.This kick-off workshop from the Career Centre shows you how to clarify your strengths, develop visions and, above all, how to make progress more easily together with others. Get to know the principles of the PeerCollective and try them out for yourself.

 

Career? Shape it! - Your future on the Vision Board

25.02.2026 | 10:00-13:00

What should your appointment look like? What motivates you - and where do you really want to go?

In this workshop, we will use a creative method to visualise goals and wishes. We will try out how images, symbols and words can help us to gain clarity and develop new perspectives. With targeted impulses, we think bigger, bolder and further ahead. The focus is on designing a personal vision board - as a compass for the future.