Acquire Competences. Plan Career Entry.

10/14/2025

From voice training and rhetoric to confident presentation in virtual spaces and the use of artificial intelligence in the application process: the Career Centre is offering an extensive programme in the winter semester.

The Career Centre offers students at the University of Würzburg advice and events to prepare them for starting a career and to acquire key professional skills. (Image: Colourbox, #62166428)

The Career Centre sees itself as a central interface between the university and the world of work with the aim of preparing students comprehensively for their career entry at an early stage. It offers a varied programme of events as well as individual advice on all aspects of profile building and career entry and promotes talent through special offers. The Career Centre team reaches over 2,000 students a year with around 100 events and around 400 individual consultations.

Highlights in the Winter Semester

A particular focus in the event programme is on teaching communication skills and self-competence, as these are among the most central key qualifications in both professional and private contexts and often form the basis for the further development of skills. At the same time, these are also compulsory modules for students on the new supplementary programme leading to the Professional Skills Certificate.

For this reason, the Career Centre is offering tried-and-tested courses such as "Voice training" and "Rhetoric" in the winter semester, as well as newly developed workshops such as "Professional communication at work", "Confident performance in virtual spaces - convincing with digital rhetoric", "No! Maintaining boundaries in a professional context", or "Strong and self-confident: Unleash resilience and self-worth".

To further define your own profile in a targeted manner, we recommend the potential analysis events: Potential analysis - discovering and promoting your own strengths, Decision-making and my personality, From skills profile to speculative application.

Numerous Offers around AI

Highly topical issues such as the use of artificial intelligence in the AI-driven world have also found their way into the programme. With events such as "Understanding, shaping and utilising AI: A practical workshop for students", "Between meaning and system: the role of human sciences in an AI-driven world", "Understanding and successfully using artificial intelligence in the application process" and "Trends in recruiting", the Career Centre aims to prepare students as best as possible for the changing world of work.

Other highlights of the programme include career-oriented lectures designed to show students different career prospects. For example, the lecture series "Perspectives for the humanities and social sciences", which will take place online via Zoom every Thursday from 23 October. Both traditional areas of application and new fields of activity arising from digitalisation will be presented. The Kindernothilfe organisation, the city of Würzburg, bertelsmann and vAudience will be among those taking part. Former students will present themselves and their professional careers to give an insight into various industries.

The complete range of events offered by the Career Centre

Additional Study Programme for the Professional Skills Certificate

Currently, students can also have the Career Centre's events credited towards the Professional Skills Certificate as part of their additional studies. This starts for the first time in the winter semester and aims to prepare students for the global labour market of the future and to sensitise them to professional activities or contexts of action during their studies, some of which do not yet exist or are difficult to plan and predict. Professional skills make it possible to plan and make the necessary adjustments independently.

Further information is available here