For over 30 years, ELM has helped individuals and organisations navigate their global future. Through our workshops, we offer tailored solutions that enhance internationalisation and help institutions maximise student employability skills in every corner of the world. Every session is designed to build the skills required for successful (international) careers and global career transitions.
Webinars designed to help participants translate (virtual) mobility experiences into recognized career skills for the global job market.
This webinar focuses on encouraging students to value and understand the employability benefits of an international ‘virtual’ experience by providing them with tips and ideas for making the most out of their participation in virtual study abroad programmes. Participating students will learn about the impact of virtual activities on their employability skills and their cultural awareness, and by using practical examples this webinar illustrates how to translate virtual experiences into professional skills that meet the requirements of a global job market.
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This webinar will explore the value employers place on competencies gained during mobility and how they are recognised in the recruitment and onboarding processes. Measuring the impact of studying abroad on students’ career development remains challenging, and the support that universities provide to mobile students in identifying and assessing the gained competencies is often modest. This webinar is particularly suited to Erasmus+ participants, helping them translate the skills gained into competencies employers recognise.
Email usThese workshops equip (international) students, PhD candidates, and researchers with the intercultural competencies and practical tools needed to navigate the global job market.
This high-intensity (virtual) 2-day workshop tailored to PhD candidates and Postdocs will provide participants with the necessary tools and tips to understand their career values and identify future career paths based on their interests and skills. The workshop will help participants get to grips with their international career development and create their own action plan for their next career step, whether that career will be in the Netherlands or elsewhere and whether it is taking place in the academic world or outside of it. Irrespective of those choices, to be able to make career progress, candidates may want some guidance. They need an understanding of the job market in both academia and the profit sector, being aware of international employment opportunities.
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(International) PhD candidates looking for a job in the Netherlands often face questions around career development to prepare for their next career step, a step that is not necessarily taking place in the academic world. This pragmatic one-day workshop aims to deliver insights into balancing your career values with your career goals. What job opportunities offer the profit sector vs academia in the Netherlands? What questions are raised during a Dutch job interview? What makes a Dutch employer tick? And what makes an international PhD candidate outstanding and best prepared for a successful job hunt in a Dutch context? Although the workshop is interesting to all PhD candidates, it is specifically aimed at international PhD candidates.
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``We need to understand diversity to make sure we create mutual understanding`` – on that basis, ELM has put together a workshop for EuroTech PhD candidates. During this one-day workshop, we will highlight and show that (effective) intercultural dialogue allows people to use articulation between cultural diversity and universal values. The tools that we will use are UNESCO’s Storytelling Circles, built on Erin Meyer’s Culture Maps, Richard Lewis's Communication Models, and our own ELM research, to support PhD candidates in understanding the value of intercultural understanding in today’s interconnected world.
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For students and recent graduates interested in starting an international career, this workshop focuses on understanding how cultural differences affect job hunting. How to deal with national differences in CV/resume writing? Gaining insight into being able to apply in a foreign country, knowing what is favoured by employers in that country, which application methods work best, what skill sets make employers tick, what to mention in your CV/resume, whether it is for a job in Shanghai, Stockholm or Sydney. This workshop is delivered in a tailored format that focuses on the requirements of the target student population, such as the ISSO GLASS program at Columbia University.
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Aimed at international students interested in starting a career in the Netherlands. After the workshop, students will feel more at ease when looking for a job in the Netherlands. The focus is on job-hunting in the Netherlands, and the information is geared towards cultural differences, understanding what makes Dutch employers tick and the dos and don’ts of Dutch application procedures. This workshop is often delivered in a tailored format for a specific field, such as Leiden Law School at Leiden University.
See our agenda“A few weeks ago, I participated in a ‘’Career guidance workshop’’, conducted by Nannette Ripmeester. I am writing this email to say thank you for all your suggestions and advice during the workshop, which really helped me in preparing for my first ever job interview. All thanks to the workshop, I have been selected as a post-doc in a very prestigious research group.”
Apart from workshops aimed at students, recent graduates, and PhD researchers, ELM also offers workshops for staff at higher education institutions.
The global demand for and competition to attract international talent have intensified in recent years, and many higher education institutions are gradually recognising the importance of integrating international graduates into regional labour markets. Employability is key in this respect. But employability is not just 'the job upon graduation' or providing a career workshop towards the end of the curriculum. Especially for international student retention, it is about facilitating international students’ integration into the host society and culture, and preparing them for the regional labour market, and vice versa. During this workshop, we will present strategic approaches and best practices for enhancing employability initiatives to continuously support the attraction, integration, and recommendation (AIR) cycle of global talent at an institution and across a region.
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This 3-hour workshop supports an understanding of employability-related data. Combining the observations from the institution’s own ‘developmental assessment’ materials with benchmarked outcomes such as those of the International Student Barometer, we will work through the data and its implications to give pragmatic solutions in enhancing employability, including best practice examples.
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