In your job, you will often be an intermediary between your company and your customer or a third party. It is vital that you know how to communicate correctly and effectively what the needs of the different parties are. In this workshop, you’ll learn how challenging this can be in a customer briefing, and you’ll get several tips and tricks to help you navigate them.
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This workshop will teach you several beginner techniques for data analysis and visualisation. It requires no prior knowledge.
Many companies work with Excel to complete their bookkeeping, organise tasks, and to store and analyse data. Understanding how to analyse and visualise that data lets you identify patterns that could help you identify opportunities for cost reduction or value creation. It may also help you convince others of these opportunities.
In this session, you’ll set up your own start-up company and get familiar with Design Thinking. Through playing this game, you learn the range of different customer needs and how you put the customer at the centre of designing innovative concepts. Interaction, creativity and collaboration are front and centre in the Think like a Start-up Game.
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Did you realise only a small portion of all available job openings is visible on online platforms? Networking helps you get a better idea of your situation and opportunities in the labour market. In this online information session, you'll be introduced to how you can expand and manage your professional network. That will let you meet people online and offline, to support you with the next step in your career.
Are you curious what recruiters focus on when looking for candidates on LinkedIn? In this online information session, you'll be introduced to composing a successful profile on this professional network. You'll form an idea of how LinkedIn works and how employers and recruiters use it. Also, you'll get tips and advice to present yourself and to create a match with the roles and functions you're available for.
What is your motivation? What are your qualities and disadvantages – and why? What can you tell about yourself? In this online workshop, you’ll be introduced to an answer to these questions. You’ll get to challenge yourself, in a safe setting with your fellow students and a career coach. After role-playing, you’ll receive feedback and tips. These will let you engage in your interview with confidence.
The aim of this workshop is to help strengthen your confidence in making decisions about your future, what to do after you graduate. We will discuss the challenges of decision making; doubt, FOMO, the opinions of others, the idea of the best possible choice. We explore what this may imply for your study - and career decisions and how to deal with this.
In this workshop you will learn about the funding landscape for early career researchers, about what you can do to optimize your academic CV and what the ingredients are of a good research proposal.
The workshop will be given by Olga Gritsai from IXA (Innovation Exchange Amsterdam)
In this workshop you will learn about the funding landscape for early career researchers, about what you can do to optimize your academic CV and what the ingredients are of a good research proposal.
The workshop will be given by Annette Dirac from IXA (Innovation Exchange Amsterdam)
Have you found an exciting job opening, and would you like to capture the employer’s attention in a convincingly and originally? In this compact online workshop, you’ll be introduced to the how and what of successful applications. Discover how you can think outside of the box, to make your letter personal, intelligent and honest. You’ll get to try creating a link between what the employers seek and you have to offer, in a way that makes you stand out in the crowd.