Career policy

Target group

• PhD's

  In addition to the central support, you can make use of the following support during your doctoral journey:

  • Career orientation training for PhD candidates and postdocs
  • Peer coaching

• Academics UD-UHD-HL

  Agreements regarding potential career steps are made at the faculty level, where both horizontal and vertical opportunities are discussed during annual reviews and career tracks.

  As part of "Recognision & Rewards," all researchers at the UD level and above make agreements with their supervisors to focus on one of the core domains: teaching, research, or impact. The implementation of these career opportunities has been detailed at the faculty level. The central framework, explanations, and tools such as reflection questions can be found here: Academic career paths.

  The Appointment of (endowed) professor outlines the procedures followed for the appointment to the position of professor.

  Besides the central offer, you can also take advantage of the following opportunity: 

  • Mentoring programme for talented scientists

• Teaching staff D4 to D1

  For the group of lecturers from D4 to D1, VU Amsterdam has developed the Career policy for D4 to D1 teaching staff (pdf),

  The career policy includes the teaching framework as a tool.

• Support and administrative staff (OBP)

  In addition to the central offer, you can use the following option:

  • Mentoring programme for talented professionals in operations

  The career policy will be further developed in 2025.

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