Build your future, one experience at a time.

Whether you are still figuring out what suits you, exploring career options, building professional skills or gaining practical experience, WUR offers many opportunities to support your personal and professional development.

Start where you are, explore what interests you and build your future, one experience at a time.

1. Know yourself

Understanding your strengths, values, interests and motivations is an important foundation for making meaningful study and career choices. The better you understand yourself, the easier it becomes to identify opportunities that fit your ambitions and make choices that align with what matters to you.

Personal Motivation Assessment (ELS51901)

This course is offered as an elective for both Bachelor's and Master's students. Using the Motivational Compass workbooks, you will learn more about your intrinsic motivation, personal drivers, and how to make thought through choices about your studies and future career. For more information about this course, please refer to Osiris.

Identifying Your Motivation (ELS68300)

This course is designed to help you gain a deeper understanding of your intrinsic motivation. Knowing what drives you can serve as a compass, enabling you to make more conscious choices about your studies and future career. For more information about this course, please refer to Osiris.

Student Training & Workshops

The Student Training & Workshops at WUR include hands-on workshops and short training courses designed to support your study skills, (mental) wellbeing, and help explore your talents. 

Personal career coaching

WUR's career coaches offer personalised guidance to help you reflect on what suits you, explore potential career paths, and identify your unique strengths. Whether you are looking to clarify your career direction, strengthen your personal brand, or improve your CV, LinkedIn profile, motivation letter, or interview skills, one-on-one career coaching can help you move forward with confidence. Plan a meeting.

Career trainings and workshops

Student Career Services regularly organises trainings and workshops that help you discover your qualities and gain greater self-awareness and confidence in shaping your future. View the current offer and register via JobTeaser.

2. Explore your future

Exploring career possibilities helps you discover what opportunities exist and how your interests and talents can connect to future roles and sectors. Career exploration is not about finding the perfect answer immediately, it is about becoming curious, gathering information and learning from experience.

Career Exploration (ELS65900)

This course is designed to support you in exploring your career options and make your goals, dreams, and search process more explicit. For more information about this course, please refer to Osiris.

Career workshops & events

Student Career Services regularly organises workshops, employer events and training sessions to help you explore career paths, build your network and prepare for future transitions. View the current offer and register via JobTeaser.

Trigger your talent

At WUR, there are many opportunities to broaden or deepen your BSc programme and further develop your talents. For example, you can expand your curriculum with additional courses, complete a Capita Selecta, take extra courses through Distance Learning / MOOCs, complete part of your programme at a university abroad, design your own flexible study programme, or pursue a second BSc programme leading to two BSc degrees.

To explore the options that best fit your interests and ambitions, discuss them with your study advisor.

International experiences

Studying or working abroad can help you discover new interests, expand your perspective and explore opportunities in an international context.

To explore the options that best fit your interests and ambitions, discuss them with your study advisor.

3. Develop professional skills

Professional skills are developed through practice. By stepping outside your comfort zone and actively engaging in projects, workshops and collaborations, you strengthen skills that are valuable in any career. These include communication, teamwork, leadership, problem solving, adaptability and professionalism.

Academic Consultancy Training (ACT)

Academic Consultancy Training is one of WUR’s flagship courses and a compulsory component of most Master’s programmes. Working in a multidisciplinary team, you will act as a consultant on a real-life challenge from an external client. Along the way, you will develop valuable professional skills such as teamwork, communication, project management, stakeholder engagement, and presenting your results.

Career workshops and trainings

Student Career Services offers a variety of career workshops and training to help you prepare for your future career. Through interactive sessions on topics such as networking, job applications, CV and LinkedIn optimisation, interview skills, personal branding, and career orientation, you can strengthen your professional skills and increase your confidence in navigating the labour market.

View the current offer and register via JobTeaser.

Online learning

Expand your knowledge and develop additional competencies through online courses and distance learning opportunities. See Programmes and courses for professionals | WUR.

Student Challenges

Participating in a Student Challenge is an excellent way to develop valuable professional skills in a real-world setting. Working in multidisciplinary teams, you will strengthen competencies such as teamwork, communication, leadership, project management, problem-solving, and creativity while tackling complex challenges. Along the way, you will expand your network and learn how to collaborate effectively with students, experts, and external partners.

4. Gain experience

Experience is one of the most powerful ways to learn. Practical experiences help you apply your knowledge, develop confidence and discover what suits you. Every experience can contribute to your development when you actively reflect on what you learn.

Board year

Taking on a board position within a study association, student or sports organisation, or serving on the Student Council is a unique opportunity to develop leadership, organisational, communication, and project management skills while gaining valuable experience for your future career.

Volunteering

Contribute to society while developing transferable skills, expanding your network and gaining valuable experience.

Academic Consultancy Training (ACT)

Apply academic knowledge in practice while working with clients and multidisciplinary teams. See Academic Consultancy Training for more information.

Student Challenges

Student Challenges provide hands-on experience by allowing you to work on real-life issues and contribute to innovative solutions with societal or industry impact. By applying your academic knowledge in practice, you gain valuable experience outside the classroom, explore potential career interests, and build a portfolio of experiences that can support your future career development.

Employer events and networking activities

Student Career Services supports you in finding internships, jobs, and other opportunities to apply your knowledge and skills in practice. Through employer events, networking activities, career fairs, and workshops on finding internships and jobs, you can gain insights into the professional world, expand your network, and take concrete steps towards your future career. 

View the current offer and register via JobTeaser.