One-on-one counselling sessions

Your questions
Who am I? What am I good at? What sets me apart from others? What is important to me? What career opportunities are suitable for me? Where do I want to be? What steps will take me to my goal?

Your answers
You determine suitable career options for yourself based on your own personality, skills, potential for development, interests and work-related values.

Your benefit
You know the next steps on your career path.

Your preparation
Use the HSG Career Profiler to reflect on your work-related values, skills and interests. Think about career questions you wish to answer during your career orientation session.

Duration: 90 min.

Your questions
How can my CV and cover letter (help me) succeed? How can I present my personality, skills and strengths (= my USP) and convey my motivation authentically? How can I use social media (e.g. LinkedIn) to establish a meaningful positioning for myself?

Your answers
We will give you feedback on your application documents with respect to a concrete vacancy for which you wish to apply. We will provide suggestions on your LinkedIn profile and on how to use it in the application process.

Your benefit
You find out what matters when you create your application folder, understand country-specific and industry-specific requirements and increase the impact of your application and your LinkedIn profile.

Your preparation
Adapt your CV to a specific vacancy and send it to us along with your cover letter, the job description or a link to the vacancy, and your individual questions.

Duration: 60 Min.

Your questions
I have been invited to an interview. From what to wear to how to answer tricky questions – how can I come across as a convincing candidate?

Your answers
We will provide input on preparing for your interview. We will carry out a mock interview and give you direct feedback on the impres-sion you made, including your non-verbal communication and the content of your answers.

Your benefit
You find out how to present yourself authentically and showcase your personality, skills and experience to impress the interviewing company. You get to experience and practise the concrete interview situation in advance.

Your preparation
Send us your current CV along with your cover letter, the confirma-tion of invitation to the interview, the job description or a link to the vacancy, and your individual questions. Use our online resources on hsgcareer.ch.

Duration: 60 Min.

Your questions
I have been invited to a pre-recorded video interview. How do I leave a las-ting good impression in a multimedia context?

Your answers
Based on a mock pre-recorded video interview, we give you direct feedback on the overall impression you made, the audio and video quality of your recording, your posture and language, and the con-tent of your answers.

Your benefit
You understand the specific challenges inherent to this digital inter-view format and learn how to present yourself to the webcam authen-tically and in the best possible light. You get to experience and practi-se the concrete video interview situation in advance.

Your preparation
Complete a pre-recorded video interview and review your recording. Send us the job description or a link to the vacancy, your current CV, cover letter and your individual questions.

Duration: 60 Min.