The point of a job interview is for the employer to find out if you fit into the company and the respective team, how you deal with difficult questions, and how you behave in personal interaction. While a job interview is tricky for everybody, it is especially challenging for international students because intercultural differences highly influence both parties behavior and perceptions.

Akademische Jahresfeier der TUM mit anschließendem Umtrunk in der Immatrikulationshalle (Hauptgebäude)

In this hands-on workshop you will learn to be successful with your job applications in Germany. We will look into the most important topics like career planning, job searching, new online recruiting methods, application documents and how to convince recruiters in a job interview. You willalso learn self-marketing techniques that will enable you to present clear and individual USPs to differentiate you from other candidates.

Powerful new technologies that are just around the corner - gene editing, autonomous vehicles, deep learning machines, for instance - promise to change the human future into one that is unimaginably swifter, smarter, more efficient, and freer from pain, disease, and early death than the present we currently inhabit. Less talked about are the consequences for future humans: what sorts of entities will we be when we are even more linked and networked, recorded in vast data systems, subjected to targeted biological manipulation, and dependent on thinking machines for much of our day to day activity? In this talk, I will review today's approaches to preserving the integrity of the human and consider how that concept might have meaning in the science fiction world that is spread out before us.

Anhand von zwei Beispielen – dem Skelett eines Klosterbruders aus dem 18. Jahrhundert und der Mumie eines bayerischen Generals aus napoleonischer Zeit – zeigt der Vortrag Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der paläopathologischen Methode und veranschaulicht die daraus zu gewinnenden medizinischen und historischen Erkenntnisse.

A work contract in Germany is a very sensitive document based on a complex legislation. This webinar will provide you with lots of information about your rights and also your duties in your first job. The goal is to sensitize you for the key aspects to review before signing a German work contract.