Goethe-Universität — Professional networking

Graduation & Career

Tips for professional networking in times of Covid-19

Dear students

The corona pandemic presents us with new challenges in many areas. It means that the opportunities for professional networking are limited since personal contact needs to be minimized. This is why we collected some useful tips and links on our website on how you can maintain and expand professional networks despite restrictions on personal contact.

Professional Networking in times of Covid-19

CONNECT: Professional Networking at University

Welcome!

Why are professional networks useful? How can you build up professional networks already during your studies and prepare for the start of your career? Do professional networks in Germany differ from professional networks in other countries?

CONNECT wants to help the international students of Goethe-University to answer those and other questions. Furthermore, CONNECT provides helpful advice for successfully building professional networks!

CONNECT offers:

A mentoring program with graduates who have already started their careers
an online guide with tips and hints for successful networking
Workshops on professional networking and lectures with representatives from various companies and industries

Mentoring

Learn Professional Networking from Experts

Who would be better suited to explain the German job market to you and to open the door to your first professional networks than mentors who have already started their careers? In our mentoring program, international students are accompanied by working graduates (mainly from Goethe University) for one semester. Our mentors provide insights into their respective fields of work, pass on their experiences and offer help with professional orientation.

Our mentoring program begins at the start of each semester. For winter semester 2019/20 our international mentees are in the middle of the mentoring phase. The next mentoring phase will start in April 2020.

Click here to find our Mentoring Programm

Workshops & Events

Our range of events is entirely dedicated to professional networking. You can get tips on networking in general, learn from company representatives and recruiters about their respective industries and their expectations regarding applicants and – from alumni who have already successfully started their careers – find out how networks have helped them on their way.

Click here to find our offers