Our postdoc group coaching programs offer you a supportive and collaborative framework in which you can foster your professional and personal development together with a fixed group of postdocs and an experienced career coach.

Why Career Coaching?

Are you a postdoc at TU Wien and wondering how you can best master current and future professional challenges?

You are dealing with topics like these:

• How do I build successful relationships and expand my networks?
• What are possible career scenarios for me in the coming years?
• What values are important to me and where do I want to make a difference?
• How do I make my important career decisions?
• What are my core competencies?
• How can I do good research in a challenging environment?
• How can I improve my time management (e.g. work-life balance)
• How can I learn to relax under pressure and be kinder to myself? 

Do you rarely find the time to deal with these questions?

Then a group coaching program is just right for you! 
We offer two different group coaching programs (in English). The focus is either on an academic career or on transitioning to a career outside of academia.

The possibilitys of career mentoring

You are a Female Postdoc at TU Wien and strive for the next step within your scientific career? You seek for a second opinion regarding your career development and goals and would like to gain insight in personal journeys of an experienced scientist in your field or outside your field? You wish to expand your network and connections within the scientific community?

Then we invite you to reflect on who could be a perfect mentor (f/m/d) for you and afterwards apply as a mentee within our Career Mentoring for Female Postdocs. The next cycle will start in November 2025. 

In this program we define mentoring as a one-to-one relationship between one person (mentor) who accompanies the individual career path and personal development of the other person (mentee). The mentor provides feedback and career-related advice and a second opinion to that of the mentee's supervisor. Therefore your mentor cannot be the same person as your supervisor.

Mentoring involves:

• tailored, personalized support
• concrete formulation of professional goals
• support in achieving these professional goals
• strengthening professional self-confidence
• gaining insight into the structures of the scientific community

But, mentoring is not a one-way street. Your mentor should also benefit from the process, for example, through the following aspects:

• Opportunity to reflect on her/his own leadership behavior
• Acquiring skills in the area of communication and conversational skills that can also be used in other areas
• Expanding her/his own network by meeting other mentors#

Key facts about the program:

• Program duration 13 months (November 2025 - November 2026), detailed timetable
• 4-6 individual meetings (duration of 1–1.5 hours) desirably in-person, or virtual are suggested for a succesful mentoring relationship
• workshops, networking events, self-organized workshops and peer councelling events 

Details and further information can be found at: Career Mentoring for Female Postdocs.

For your individual career development, we invite you to exchange ideas with your supervisor via the annual structured appraisal interview. Seminars are held annually for this purpose. If required, you can arrange an individual counselling interview with us.

In our HR development program, opens an external URL in a new window, you will find special workshops and seminars in categories such as Focus Science, Focus on Teaching, Methods Competence, etc., in which you can acquire skills such as academic writing, presentation or communication techniques as well as tools such as project management or IT programs. Our in-house experts inform and advise you in topic-specific seminars about national and international research funding opportunities, citation methods or didactics in teaching. Application training and workshops on negotiation strategies round off your qualifications for a career after TU Wien.

Of course, we are also at your disposal for personal concerns and look forward to your visit, call or email.

Support for parents through TU Kids

The baby is born or are you looking for different care formats? In addition to the various care options for all age groups, we offer interesting workshops for the kids, especially on school holidays. Get an overview at Compatibility: TU KIDS. The TU Kids Newsletter , opens an external URL in a new windowprovides you with relevant information.

Support for parents through TU Kids

In addition to the TU Care Newsletter, opens an external URL in a new window we also offer events for carers as an opportunity for networking, information and relief. Further information can be found at Compatibility: TU Care.

Representative for Family Work Balance Issues

The Representative for family work balance issues is also available to support you with your concerns.

For several years now, TUW pre- and postdocs have been able to take advantage of the services offered by the Ludwig Boltzmann Society's Career Center, opens an external URL in a new window free of charge. You can benefit from selected workshops, individual coaching and counseling, skills training, programs, summer and winter schools, expert discussions, potential analyses, and more.

• On the LBG Career Center website, you will find current events and offers as well as an overview of all offers.

Mission Statement of the LBG Career Center: 
We support researchers and leaders in their career development so they can work purposefully in or outside of academia!
The LBG Career Center is the first point of contact for all questions concerning career development from pre- and post-doc researchers and their leaders.
We provide confidential advice and accompany young researchers and leaders in  their career development. We also implement programs and build social networks with relevant communities in science and business.

Our services, opens an external URL in a new window are provided in German and English.

The Austrian Higher Education Conference (HSK) has developed national recommendations on career paths in academia in a working group. These recommendations were published last summer and presented at a series of information events at Austrian universities in the fall and winter. 

Video Perspektiven für Nachwuchswissenschaftler:innen (Prae- und Post-Doc), opens an external URL in a new window
 

Research Assessment and Career Paths for Researches:

National Recommendations of the Austrian Higher Education Conference Working Group (PDF), opens in new window