In the picture. Career event: AUGent Afstudeerbeurs

Block your diary and join us on Tuesday 13 March 2012 for the career event of the year!

For the first time in its 9 year history, the Afstudeerbeurs is also targeted toward doctoral students and postdocs. This cross-disciplinary job fair, hosted by the AUGent at the ICC, is the largest marketing event in its kind in Flanders, with more than 170 companies showcasing various job opportunities. Attending the Afstudeerbeurs provides a unique chance to meet in a single afternoon a variety of companies in person, build networks, practice and sharpen interview techniques and collect valuable industry and company information.

Please visit the website of the Afstudeerbeurs for further details and do not forget to pre-register! Simultaneous to the job fair several companies and institutions will offer informal presentations. These presentations give you an opportunity to learn more about companies and discuss job possibilities.

Doctoral students visiting the job fair, should register with, and pick up further information from, the Doctoral Schools Coordination Unit immediately upon entering the ICC on 13 March. The DSOC desk will be located at the entrance.

Doctoral students who would like to have their participation in the fair recognised as a transferable skills seminar (cluster 'career management'), should (at least) take part in the comprehensive CV analysis offered by experts from ScienceCo and Randstad.

Having received confirmation upon pre-registration, you will be able to arrange a CV analysis by ScienceCo, Randstad (Ms Nele Coppens & Ms Ilse Foré) or USG Innotiv Science. You may upload your CV beforehand, but make sure to bring some paper copies to the job fair!

ScienceCo's fields of action are Law; Business & Economics; Medicine; Pharmaceutical Sciences; Kinesiology & Rehabilitation Sciences; Engineering; Bioscience Engineering and Exact Sciences.
Randstad's fields of action are Law; Theology; Arts; Philosophy; Social Sciences; Business & Economics; Psychology & Educational Sciences; Medicine; Pharmaceutical Sciences; Kinesiology & Rehabilitation Sciences; Engineering; Bioscience Engineering and Exact Sciences.
USG Innotiv Science's fields of action are Medicine and Health Sciences, Exact Sciences, Engineering, Technology and Architecture.

Keep checking the Doctoral Schools website regularly for updated information!

List of companies that take a keen interest in doctoral students and postdocs. Detailed company profiles and useful job fair do's and don'ts will follow.

Information session

8 March 2012, 10:00-12:00

Academieraadzaal, Volderstraat 9, Gent
No registration needed

Programme:

• Information about the Doctoral Schools and the Doctoral Training Programme (for new PhD students)
• Information about Oasis: managing your curriculum, submitting a progress report ... (for all PhD students enrolled for the new programme of study)
  

Information about your Doctoral School and the Doctoral Training Programme

Information for PhD students registered for the new programma of study

• Managing your curriculum in Oasis (screen shots)
• Final submission of your curriculum in Oasis (screen shots)
  

Information for PhD students with a first registration in 2010-2011 or 2011-2012

• Doctoral School of Arts, Humanities and Law
• Doctoral School of Social and Behavioural Sciences
  
• Doctoral School of Natural Sciences
• Doctoral School of Life Sciences and Medicine
• Doctoral School of (Bioscience) Engineering

Information for PhD students registered for the new programme of study, with a first registration prior to 2010-2011

• Add previously attended courses or research activities to your curriculum in Oasis (deadline 1 February 2012)
  
• Transitional measures: overview
• Overview of the changes (old programme compared to new programme of study)
  
• Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences: New regulations and transition rules

5 Doctoral Schools

All new doctoral students enrolled at Ghent University will automatically become a member of one of the Doctoral Schools. There are five Doctoral Schools that support junior researchers during their research training. Each of the Doctoral Schools has its own specific research focus:

• Arts, Humanities and Law
  
• Social and Behavioural Sciences
• Natural Sciences
• (Bioscience) Engineering
• Life Sciences and Medicine

You will have to decide which Doctoral School best meets your research niche – this may be fairly obvious in some cases, but for interdisciplinary research this choice will best be made in consultation with your supervisor(s) or doctoral guidance committee.

Your faculty remains responsible for academic admission of a PhD proposal, the defense of the dissertation and the granting of degrees. Your Doctoral School will more particularly support you during your doctoral research.

Benefits & duties

Registering at a Doctoral School offers some clear opportunities.

• Research coaching is still provided by a personal supervisor, but the Doctoral Schools provide assistance to all of the parties involved in doctorate research. They offer top-level courses to doctoral students both within and outside of their own discipline. They complement relevant skills training with research-related activities.
• In addition, the Doctoral Schools organise guest lectures, information sessions, promotional events and interaction with industry, and as such keep a finger on the pulse of external stakeholders.
  

All members of the Doctoral Schools have to submit an annual progress report. 

Mission

The Doctoral Schools have a three-fold mission:

• to increase the international and social value of the doctorate from the perspective of potential researchers as well as from a labour-market point of view,
• to enhance the support provided to doctoral students in the course of their doctorate research,
• to strenghten a quality culture in (doctoral) research.