Career Events
Our event calendar provides you with an overview of all the events organised by the Career Center, our partner companies and other companies wanting to meet ETH students. Events are exclusively organised around the theme early career.
Check our external page event calendar (see also right column on all our websites)
The Career Center offers events on the following topics, mostly during our career weeks in March and October or before the ETH job fairs:
Key topics include:
- Know how your expectations towards a career fair can be different to those of visiting firms
- Six steps to prepare your job fair visit:
- Plan your route
- Do your research
- Prepare your materials
- Perfect your pitch
- Prepare your questions
- Follow-up
- Managing first impressions
- Certain Do’s and Don’ts
Learn why it is important to define and establish your personal brand in the context of your career.
Key topics include:
- Different personal branding models
- How to convert your brand into tangible career marketing tools, in particular your LinkedIn profile.
- Why and how social media are relevant for their job search
- How to efficiently structure a LinkedIn profile, incl. Do’s and Don’t’s
- How to use LinkedIn as a job market, career exploration tool
- How to use LinkedIn to find jobs
- How to use LinkedIn to network
Key topics include:
- What is an Assessment Center?
- How/why they are developed and conducted?
- How to best prepare for an Assessment Center?
- What does a typical graduate Assessment Center look like – what can I expect?
- What do assessors look for?
- Some strategies to apply during the different Assessment Center exercises
Key topics include:
- Why is important to know your own salary expectations before going to an interview?
- The difference between salary and total compensation
- Salary as a decision criteria for accepting a job
- How/when to approach the salary topic during an interview
- How companies define salary bands
- Where to get benchmarking information on current salaries
- Negotiating salaries as a graduate – what options do I have?
Key topics include:
- Main differences between working in academica and working in industry:
- Know what they will sign up for when entering an industry career
- Know about the success factors in such a career
- Know how to successfully start an industry career
- 5 critical skills for getting hired and promoted in industry