Course Type: Online-Workshop

Target Group: Doctoral researchers, postdoctoral researchers

In this workshop participants learn how to strategically build visibility in the hidden job market and become attractive to key stakeholders such as executive search consultants and headhunters. The focus is on the integration of professional

positioning, strategic network development, and effective application strategies beyond traditional job advertisements.

Participants reflect on their existing professional profiles and develop a clear positioning for their desired target roles and organizations. Using platforms such as LinkedIn, institutional websites, and professional networks, the workshop

demonstrates how a professional online presence contributes to being noticed by decision-makers, executive search consultants, and headhunters.

In addition, participants learn how to communicate their skills, experience, and interests in a way that makes them visible and relevant for recruitment and search processes conducted by executive search firms. The workshop explains how profiles, keywords, and content need to be designed to ensure inclusion in searches, talent pools, and recommendation networks. Complementary strategies for targeted outreach and conversations with executive search consultants are also covered.

The goal is to systematically gain access to the hidden job market, increase personal visibility among executive search consultants and headhunters, and open up new career perspectives beyond traditional application pathways.

Counting towards the Certificate "Leadership, Management, Science Communication and Knowledge Transfer" (Module III or IV, 4 AE).  

Katja Wolter, M. A., studied Business Administration at the University of Applied
Sciences Stralsund and John-Moores-University in Liverpool (UK). She
worked in Finance for an international Company in Frankfurt am Main, was
Consultant of the Administrative Director of Rundfunk Berlin Brandenburg
(rbb), Director of Finance and Controlling at Deutsche Entertainment AG in
Berlin and worked in a Project Management Organisation in the field of Biotechnology. Since 2013 she is Head of Steinbeis Research Center – Institute of Resource Development, Greifswald.