What WEBINARS DO WE OFFER?

Skills Weaving offers free and paid webinars on a regular basis. 

Check out our Agenda about the current planning.

Designing a career development plan

For who:

PhD students & postdoctoral researchers

 

In this 1-hour Webinar, we will show the benefits of designing a personal career development plan for academics. For PhD students and postdoctoral researchers, setting clear intermediate and long-term goals and designing a structured approach to achieve them will prove invaluable for the future career, be it within or beyond academia.

Through a combination of theoretical insights and practical examples, participants will be introduced to the basics of designing their own career development plan. Guided by our PhD student Bob and postdoctoral researcher Tania, we will provide practical examples on planning for a career in industry or academia. Moreover, we will show how the Skills Weaving - Academic Skills Assessment can support you in getting most out of your early academic career stages. By the end of the Webinar, participants will be able to take their career development to the next level.

 

Details:

  • A 1-hour Webinar on how to design a Career Development Plan
  • Access to the Skills Weaving Community
  • Free Livestream without additional logins on our website

 

Price: Free

Designing a personal career development plan
(SNSF Ambizione & Postdoctoral Fellowship edition)

 

For who:

Applicants to the SNSF Ambizione 2022 grant

 

In this webinar, we will illustrate how you can use the Skills Weaving Assessment to design a 1-page personal career development plan, specifically in the context of the upcoming SNSF Ambizione calls. Participants can  take the assessment in advance of the webinar. After a basic introduction to Skills Weaving, we will present a structured approach for writing a 1-page career development plan for the SNSF Ambizione grant. During a Q&A session, the Skills Weaving team will address your questions related to the topic.  

 

Details:

  • Single-use access code for Academic Career Skills Assessment  

  • The personalized assessment report  

  • 1 hour webinar “Designing a personal career development plan”  

  • Access to the Skills Weaving Community  

  • Taking the assessment is easy and takes about 15 minutes. You will receive your personalized report within a working day by mail.  

 

Price: 95 EUR

Recorded webinars
Designing a career development plan

For who:

PhD students & postdoctoral researchers

 

In this 1-hour Webinar, we will show the benefits of designing a personal career development plan for academics. For PhD students and postdoctoral researchers, setting clear intermediate and long-term goals and designing a structured approach to achieve them will prove invaluable for the future career, be it within or beyond academia.

Through a combination of theoretical insights and practical examples, participants will be introduced to the basics of designing their own career development plan. Guided by our PhD student Bob and postdoctoral researcher Tania, we will provide practical examples on planning for a career in industry or academia. Moreover, we will show how the Skills Weaving - Academic Skills Assessment can support you in getting most out of your early academic career stages. By the end of the Webinar, participants will be able to take their career development to the next level.

Introduction to Project Management

For who:

PhD students & postdoctoral researchers

 

In this 20 minute Webinar, we will show the basics of Project Management. This webinar explains parts of the Initiation phase of basic project management and is an excellent preparation for jumping into our more detailed webinar that explains all the 4 phases: Initiation, Planning, Execution and Closure phase.

Guided by our PhD student Bob we will provide practical examples on how and why he should use some basic Project Management to write his manuscript.

MS Tips and Tricks
Session 1 - MS POWERPOINT

For who:

PhD students & postdoctoral researchers

 

The first session is about making your PowerPoint presentation look awesome. In a 15 minute Live session we will show you:
- How to make fully free shapes without use of PhotoShop.
- Animating your slides.
- Next level animations: Morphing!! (you researchers will love this one).

Session 2 - MS Excel

For who:

PhD students & postdoctoral researchers

 

In this 15 minute session we bring you some usefull tips and tricks that will make your presentation of your data even better, more engaging and professional.
Agenda for this session:
- how to create a dashboard
- making printable reports
- exporting your content to other platforms

Session 3 - MS POWERPOINT

For who:

PhD students & postdoctoral researchers

 

In this 15 minute session we bring you some usefull tips and tricks that will make your presentation of your slides even better, more engaging and professional.

Agenda for this session:
- Arranging and aligning items on your slide
- The format painter
- The image and video gallery
- Use a video as background
- Save as PDF/jpg

IMPRESSIONS OF OUR WEBINARS

Tel:

+41 (0)76 778 9194

E-mail:

contact@skillsweaving.com

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Magdalenenstrasse 23

8050 Zürich

Switzerland

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