The new TUM Career Guide is here!
The application guide for all students, doctoral candidates and alumni

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The TUM Career Service is your lifelong companion in matters of career and employment.

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The new TUM Career Guide is out!

Get your university’s official application guide at the Alumni & Career office, Richard-Wagner-Straße 3, 4th floor (Mon – Fri, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.)

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Are you looking for a suitable internship? Or do you already have your degree in the bag and want to start your career full-time?

The job market offers a wide range of opportunities for TUM Students and Alumni. The TUM Career Guide shows you how to secure the most attractive jobs and stay one step ahead of everyone else when starting your career.

Here’s everything you need for a successful application and career start: Analyzing strengths and weaknesses, finding jobs, drafting a resume and cover letter, mastering interviews, and much more.

Der offizielle Bewerbungsratgeber der TUM - TUM Career Guide

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Counseling & CV-Checks

Schnelle Bewerbungshilfe - der Online CV-Check des TUM Career Service

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Just upload your documents and get written feedback from our experts.

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Effective and personal

Career Counseling

Support in preparing your application documents and charting your next career step. Call us or send us an e-mail to arrange a personal consultation appointment.

E-mail: alumniandcareer@tum.de

Career-Hotline: 089-289 22186 (Mon-Fri, 9am-4pm)

„The feedback from the CV check and the information from the webinars offered by TUM Alumni & Career definitely helped me in the job search and the application process, and helped me feel more confident about it.“

Juanita Schmidhammer (Master Sustainable Resource Management)

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Now on Instagram!

Follow @tum.alumni on Instagram for even more career tips. Get to know alumni from relevant industries and learn about current events (Picture: Pexels/Kerde Severin).

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TUM Jobportal

Make your job search easy. In the TUM Jobportal employers explicitly look for TUM Students and Alumni for their vacancies (Picture: stockphoto-graf – Fotolia.com).

Find the job of your dreams now

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TUM Career Newsletter

We will send you regular updates on our Career Events. The newsletter also contains tips and information on trends in the job market.

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Flyer winter term 2022/2023

The flyer gives an overview of all offers and events in the current semester.

Download Career Service Flyer (PDF, 279 KB)

Career Podcasts

Karriere-Podcast

Wie meistere ich meine erste Führungsrolle?

Wie sieht der Alltag einer Führungskraft aus? Wie komme ich an meine erste Führungsposition? Und macht Führen eigentlich Spaß?

In der dritten Folge des Karriere-Podcasts für die TUM Community „That’s my Job“ erzählt TUM Alumna Dr. Viktoria Leonhard, wie sie ihre erste Führungsrolle mit knapp 30 Jahren gemeistert hat und was sie jungen Führungskräften empfiehlt.

Career podcast

How to Start a Job in Germany

What do German companies value and how can I get through the application phase motivated and successfully?

In the second episode of the career podcast for the TUM community “That’s my Job”, TUM alumnus Himanshu Panandikar talks about his application process and the first months in a German company. This episode was recorded in English.

Listen now!

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Career with doctorate

You have recently completed your doctorate and are now looking for a suitable career start? You need advice around the industry change from university to industry? We support you with our exclusive career program for PhD students and postdocs.

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Events for doctoral candidates and postdocs

In our webinars specifically for PhD students and postdocs, you will receive support in finding the right job, preparing your application documents, tips on acquiring initial leadership skills, and much more.

Hava a look

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TUM Newsletter for doctoral candidates and postdocs

Are you doing your doctorate at TUM or are you a postdoc interested in a career in business? Then we will keep you up to date with this newsletter.

Subscribe now in your profile under “Services”

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Mentoring for Scienstists

Mentoring for Scientists connects PhD students and postdocs with (international) research alumni, visiting scientists and scholars. The focus is on personal exchange between researchers at different career stages.

More about mentoring

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Interested in an academic career?

You can get information and support here:

For doctoral candidates: www.gs.tum.de/en/gs/doctorate-at-tum
For postdocs: www.tum.de/en/about-tum/careers-and-jobs/postdocs

Proseminar für Masterstudierende zum Themen der Biomolekulare Nanotechnologie Arbeitsgruppe (Prof. Hendrik Dietz) und der Bionanotechnologie und Bioelektronik (Prof. Friedrich Simmel) Arbeitsgruppe. Foto: Andreas Heddergott / Verwendung frei fuer die Berichterstattung ueber die TU Muenchen unter Nennung des Copyrights

Looking for role models? These alumni earned their doctorates at TUM

Architect and Urban Planner Doris Zoller

"Climate Change Mitigation is the biggest challenge in housing"

TUM Alumna Doris Zoller has always found herself in male-dominated environments. However, for her this is not an issue. As a strategic planner for the Housing Department of the City of Munich, she carries out her duties with seasoned poise. Her time at TUM further honed her knack for networking and her readiness to embrace new ideas.

Founder and AI expert Florian Grigoleit

"Just give it a try!"

Florian Grigoleit is the CEO and co-founder of modelwise, a TUM startup that provides AI-based software for automated safety analysis. Florian received his master’s and PhD degrees in computer science and AI-based modeling at TUM, where he met his co-founders.

TUM Alumnus Raymond Wittmann (Mitte) empfängt den mexikanischen Botschafter und die mexikanische Generalkonsulin.

Honorary Consul Raymond Wittmann

"I'm more than happy to take on this responsibility"

TUM Alumni Raymond Wittmann has lived and worked on three continents. Interacting with people from different cultures is a passion of his. When the Mexican Consulate was looking for an Honorary Consul in Bavaria, he was the one chosen. The fact that he was given this position is due in part to his doctoral studies at TUM, he believes.

TUM alumnus Dr. Jan Goetz in front of a quantum computer.

Entrepreneur Jan Goetz

“I swapped my academic career for a start-up career overnight”

A global race has broken out over the future of supercomputing. TUM alumnus Jan Goetz is right at the front of the pack. His start-up has assembled the largest team of the foremost quantum computing hardware experts in Europe. His studies at TUM gave him both specialist knowledge and the necessary entrepreneurial skills.

TUM Alumna Kerstin Prechel during a lecture at HAW Hamburg.

Professor Kerstin Prechel

"If I am able to encourage just one woman, I have already achieved my goal"

TUM Alumna Kerstin Prechel worked her way up to international management, to being a professor and an entrepreneur. And she did so even though neither her parents nor her grandparents went to university. Now her goal is to encourage others to follow in her footsteps.

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Alumni and challenges

How do You do this?

Four alumni tell us about extraordinary situations in their lives and how they dealt with them.

TUM Alumni Christoph Dietrich, Nam Truong, Arthur Singer as well as co-founder Martin Sprehe.

"Our aim is to revolutionize the use of energy"

Entrepreneurs Arthur Singer, Christoph Dietrich und Nam Truong

With their start-up, TUM Alumni Arthur Singer, Christoph Dietrich and Nam Truong have developed a groundbreaking technology for the switch to clean energy. TUM played a key role in supporting the founders' team in their endeavor.

Career Service International

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Counseling for a Global Career

Whether you plan to work in Germany or anywhere else in the world – here you will find support in preparing for the job market of your choice

Working in Germany

The TUM Career Service supports all students and alumni wanting to gain work experience in Germany or start their career in this country.

Global Careers

A degree from TUM is a qualification for careers all around the world. We support you in your job search on foreign job markets, in preparing your application documents for other countries and put you in touch with TUM Alumni who have already been working successfully on different continents.

→ All events related to “Global Careers” can be found here

→ Information on internships abroad is available at the TUM Global & Alumni Office

TUM Student and TUM Alumnus form a successful mentoring tandem (Magdalena Jooß/TUM).

Worldwide Network
Professional Experience by the TUM Community

TUM Alumni offer first-hand professional experience and volunteer to students as friendly advisors.

TUM Mentoring Programmes are among the longest and most successful programmes within the TUM Community. For women, the Women of TUM events are specifically tailored to their needs and provide the perfect platform for boosting their careers.

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Contact

How to reach us

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Anke Graf

Focus: International Students & graduates

+49 89 289 22605
alumniandcareer@tum.de

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Claus Schultze-Rhonhof

Focus: Students & graduates

+49 89 289 22138
alumniandcareer@tum.de

Dr. Sabrina Eisele (Bild: Magdalena Jooß/TUM).

Dr. Sabrina Eisele

Focus: PhDs & Postdocs

+49 89 289 22563
alumniandcareer@tum.de