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 On this page, we collect tips and links on career options and tools to help you find where your path may lead.\\
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-Karin Bodewits and Philipp Gramlich have recently published a **great book** on **The Time, Life, and Career Management for Scientists**. It contains theories and exercises around time-, life-and career-management that has been specifically adapted to natural-and life scientists.The exercises will show you where your time goes and how to effectively find more time for the things you like to do. It will help you to carefully design your life, guided by your personal-, friends- and family missions. You can get it through [[https://www.hugendubel.de/de/ebook_epub/karin_bodewits_philipp_gramlich-the_time_life_and_career_management_workbook_for_scientists-38033749-produkt-details.html?internal-rewrite=true|Hugendubel]].
+The GSGS offers a **careers mailing list (gsgs-careers)**, where we share any interesting career opportunities with GSGS members and invite you to do the same. Join it by clicking [[https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/gsgs-careers|here]].
+Karin Bodewits and Philipp Gramlich have recently published a **great book** on **Time, Life, and Career Management for Scientists**. It contains theories and exercises around time-, life-and career-management that has been specifically adapted to natural-and life scientists.The exercises will show you where your time goes and how to effectively find more time for the things you like to do. It will help you to carefully design your life, guided by your personal-, friends- and family missions. You can get it through [[https://www.hugendubel.de/de/ebook_epub/karin_bodewits_philipp_gramlich-the_time_life_and_career_management_workbook_for_scientists-38033749-produkt-details.html?internal-rewrite=true|Hugendubel]].
 A **highly recommendable book** to help you 'translate' your 'academic' skills into 'general' skills for the job market, on self assessment, CVs and resumes, cover letters, job interviews and much more; available from the USB Library as an e-book: Peter S. Fiske "Put your science to work. The Take-Charge Career Guide for Scientists", American Geophysical Union, 2001, 179. pp.\\
-Dr. Peter S. Fiske (a geophysicist by training) is still active; see e.g. [[https://physics.illinois.edu/careers-seminar/FiskePutScienceWork.pdf|Dr. Peter S. Fiske, Careers Seminar at American Physical Society (APS) Spring Meeting, 7 March, 2019]] for some updated information (e.g. on using LinkedIn as a professional network). [2021-09-03: Unfortunately, this link is broken; we'll try and find a similar one]\\
+Dr. Peter S. Fiske (a geophysicist by training) is still active; see e.g. [Dr. Peter S. Fiske, Careers Seminar at American Physical Society (APS) Spring Meeting, 7 March, 2019] for some updated information (e.g. on using LinkedIn as a professional network). [2021-09-03: Unfortunately, this link is broken; we'll try and find a similar one]\\
 **Individual Grants Programmes – A How-To Guide**\\
-Would you like to find out more about DFG funding opportunities? Do you need tips on how to submit a proposal? [[https://www.dfg.de/en/research_funding/individual_grants_programmes/|Here]] you will find information on individual funding, i.e. funding programmes for individual projects or persons, as well as tips on how to compile your proposal.
+Would you like to find out more about funding opportunities of the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG)? Do you need tips on how to submit a proposal? [[https://www.dfg.de/en/research_funding/individual_grants_programmes/|Here]] you will find information on individual funding, i.e. funding programmes for individual projects or persons, as well as tips on how to compile your proposal.\\
+[[https://youtu.be/VJYekd6B7CA|Here]] is a video explaining the steps through the assessment procedure of individual grants (currently [Nov. 2021] only in German, English version to be published by the DFG soon).\\
-The UoC has a monthly newsletter where they collect and structure all the current calls for proposals from national, european and international third-party funding sources. It also includes a section on** funding for early career researchers**. You can sign up for it yourself via this [[https://verwaltung.uni-koeln.de/forschungsmanagement/content/analysis_amp_consulting_services/newsletter/index_eng.html|link]].
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+The UoC has a monthly newsletter where they collect and structure all the current calls for proposals from national, european and international third-party funding sources. It also includes a section on** funding for early career researchers**. You can sign up for it yourself via this [[https://verwaltung.uni-koeln.de/forschungsmanagement/content/analysis__consulting_services/newsletter/index_eng.html|link]].
 The GSGS has a **LinkedIn Page**. Connect with us and stay tuned for any future posts [[https://www.linkedin.com/company/gsgscologne|here]].
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 The **DVAG** (German Society for Applied Geography) has a [[https://geographie-dvag.de/campus-karriere/|Campus & Career]] page offering a range of information, from useful advice, newspaper articles to job opportunities.
+The **Geoverbund ABC/J** has [[https://www.geoverbund-abcj.de/en/news/job-offers|Job Offers]] where they announce current job vacancies for junior and senior researchers, open PhD positions, student assistants and internships.