Leiden University Career Zone
Medicine/LUMC
The LUMC Career Service offers guidance on questions related to (study and) career orientation, internships, application skills, (doubts about your) study or Master's programme choice, and other career-related topics.
Career advisors LUMC Career Service
- Ilse Huijskens
- Cécile Aaldering - Reulen
- Judith Hoogmoed (temporarily absent)
LUMC Career Service staff
- Eva Rovan
What does LUMC Career Service offer?
- Workshops & Events (online and on campus)
- Individual guidance (on location/online/by telephone)
- Review of your CV, cover letter or LinkedIn profile
LUMC Career Service's support
As a student of the Faculty of Medicine, you are welcome to join workshops offered by LUMC Career Services, such as:
- CV & Cover Letter
- Job Interview
- Prepare Yourself for the Bio Science Park Excursion
- Prepare Yourself for the Bètabanenmarkt
- Career College: Working in Research
- Career College: Working in Education
- Career College: Working as a Data Scientist
- Career College: Working as a Consultant
You also have access to workshops provided by the central Career Services, and the Career Services of other faculties.
Click here for the Workshops & Events calendar.
- For written feedback on your CV, cover letter, or LinkedIn profile, send an email and attached (Word) document, or the link to your LinkedIn profile, to careerservice@lumc.leidenuniv.nl. Please include “CV/cover letter/LinkedIn review” in the subject.
- Note that this written feedback will be based on the information you have provided in your CV or letter.
- If you would like to find out which other experiences and skills you could potentially include to your documents, please schedule a meeting with a Career Advisor.
You can book your appointment (30 minutes) with one of the Career Advisors via the online calendar. The calendar shows available timeslots in the coming 4 weeks. You can choose between an appointment on campus, or a conversation online/by telephone. If you do not have a preference, consider having look at both appointment types to see more available time slots.
In the meeting with the Career advisor you can discuss matters such as:
- Planning and preparing for your future career (e.g. side jobs, internships, extracurricular activities)
- Doubts about your study programme/switching to another programme
- Choosing your Master degree programme
- Your personal profile (what do you know, what are you good at, what do you want?)
- Researching which jobs and employers could be a good match for you
- Building your professional network
- Where to find information about jobs and potential employers
- Discussing your results of career, competency and personality tests
- Reviewing your CV or cover letter
- Improving your LinkedIn profile
- Preparing for and practicing job interviews
Contact
The best way to reach us is by email: careerservice@lumc.nl.
Location (by appointment only)
LUMC Onderwijsgebouw 3, V5-12
Hippocratespad 21
2333 ZD Leiden
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