The university team at the Heidelberg Employment Agency offers you personalised feedback on your application documents.
- Is your cover letter convincing?
- Is your CV convincing?
- Are the attachments suitable?
- Do you fulfil the formal criteria?

We will work with you to develop concrete suggestions for your convincing application.

For individuals interested in having their application documents reviewed, we are offering personalized consultation sessions. Advanced registration via the BioContact website is required. Instead of bringing your documents to the Techniker Krankenkasse booth, please arrive at the BioContact workshop desk ahead of time. For the sake of ensuring a quiet environment conducive to detailed consultations, the document checks will be conducted in a separate room away from the booths. Organizational staff will guide participants from the BioContact workshop desk to the consultation room.

During this year’s CONTACT2025 you can take advantage of our CV check. Your CV is your application’s centerpiece. It should answer all questions concerning your qualifications, experiences and skills and at the same time it must be individual and brief:
- What are the most important parts of my CV?
- How can I express what I really want to say?
- What can I do in order to avoid misinterpretation?
- What if my CV is longer than two pages?
- How can I adapt and individualize my CV to different job offers?

During the 30 minutes CV check answers to those questions will be given by the experts of Horbach Wirtschaftsberatung. Your documents will be analyzed and valuable tips regarding their content, your position relative to competitors and your career options will be given to you.
Your thesis should definitely be mentioned within your CV – but your CV should not be your thesis!

Send your CV with the subject “CV Checkup Contact2025” to alina.buettner@horbach.de until the 16.05.2025.

The career interviews will take place online on 23.05.25. You will have the chance to book one of the highly demanded CV checks only at the CONTACT25.

Registered delegates of CONTACT2025 will have the opportunity to book a confidential careers interview with a professional PhD career consultant* about any aspect of their career. This might be to receive guidance and advice on career plans, check your CV, discuss ways to develop your career, investigate ways to improve your job seeking strategy, help you to formulate a personal action plan, and any other aspects related to your career. The schedule allows for 10 career interviews, with each one lasting for up to 30 minutes. These will be allocated on a first-come first-served basis.

*Sarah Blackford is a certified academic career coach with a background in scientific research, publishing and higher education careers advisory work. She specializes in helping bioscience doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers to transition successfully to their next role, whether it’s within or outside of academia. She has over 20 years’ experience of delivering career workshops and one-to-one coaching in research institutions and universities and much of her advice and resources are published on her blog, www.biosciencecareers.org. A Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and registered member of the Career Development Institute, Sarah adheres to a recognized ethical code of practice.