Training offer
for your personal and professional development
Besides your studies, there are numerous opportunities for personal and professional development. For example, you can learn to deal with procrastination, discover which job suits you best or prepare for your first job interview. The training offer of the Personal & Professional Development department support you in this.
- All training courses are taught in English and consist of single sessions unless otherwise indicated.
- Our offer is intended for all UM students who can participate in the training offer free of charge until 6 months after graduation. We refer PhD students please refer to the Staff Career Centre.
- Online training courses are facilitated via Zoom. Trainings organised on location take place at the Student Service Centre (Bonnefantenstraat 2).
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Schedule and registration
We offer the following trainings:
| ADHD and/or Autism |
| Assertiveness |
| Boost your self-confidence |
| Contract negotiation |
| Coping with emotions |
| Digital wellbeing |
| Discover your competences |
| Entering the labour market with a disability and/or chronic disease |
| Entrepreneurship as a career path |
| Fear of failure (series of three sessions) |
| From procrastination to effective time management |
| Giftedness (series of four sessions) |
| Giftedness (peer-to-peer session) |
| Improve your decision-making |
| Introduction to fear of failure |
| Introduction to mindfulness |
| Loss & mourning (series of four sessions) |
| Meditation class |
| Mindfulness (series of three sessions) |
| Networking skills |
| Preparing for a job interview |
| Presentation skills |
| Positive health |
| Using LinkedIn |
| Stress management |
| Teambuilding for board members* |
| Vacancy search |
| Writing a powerful application letter |
| Writing your CV |
| When a family member has a mental illness (support group) |
*This workshop is exclusively for boards of student and study organisations. Please contact us via careerservices@maastrichtuniversity.nl and check the available dates for this workshop.