The event offers the opportunity to gain insights into appointment procedures for professorships in a discussion with experienced professors and other relevant stakeholders.

How do appointment procedures work? Who is involved? What considerations are decisive on the part of the decision-making bodies? Which behaviour is expected from applicants, which is tolerated and which tends to contribute to a negative assessment?

As a participant you:

• receive important (background) information about the entire appointment procedure
• can clarify your questions with experienced professors, newly appointed professors and other stakeholders involved in the process
• can adjust your behaviour in appointment procedures more specifically to the relevant requirements

Based on the appointment procedure, the three-hour event focuses on three main topics:

• Application: Identifying suitable positions, matching the position with your own profile, contact with the relevant university before and after the application, etc.
• Appointment presentation and discussion with the appointment committee: selection of the presentation topic, presentation design for a heterogeneous audience, stumbling blocks in the presentation and discussion, dealing with critical questions, do's and don'ts
• Appointment: procedure, clever negotiation and behaviour, expectations of the appointing university

Format: Moderated discussion, Q&A

Target group:

• Postdocs of the Rhine Main Universities 
• Junior research group leaders with RMU employment
• Junior professors, qualifying professors and assistant professors with RMU employment

Language: English