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Career prospects

Alumnitool on LinkedIn
can help you gain insight into possible careers after you finish your degree. It can also help you get in contact with an alumnus or alumna of your degree programme or other programmes. Nearly all graduates have a LinkedIn profile and can answer questions about your future career. They’re often more than happy to share their experiences with you. The video belows explains how the alumnitool works, and how you can use search criteria to find career information that is relevant to you.

Would you like to know more about how you can use LinkedIn to expand your network and put the new information into practice straight away? Take the LinkedIn workshop from Career Services. The workshop Exploring the job market & networking is also useful if you'd like to improve your networking skills, using LinkedIn and other ways.

Possible career paths

More information about the
is available on our Master's website.

Becoming an entrepreneur

Are you considering starting your own business? Now is a good time to prepare. Utrecht University can offer you a number of opportunities to explore entrepreneurship.

You could, for instance, take electives from Master's degree programmes that cover entrepreneurship in their curriculums:

• If you’re interested in becoming an expert at creating the prerequisites for running a successful business, take an elective at the Master’s programme

.

• If you have a background in Economics and Business, and wish to do a Master’s programme in Entrepreneurship: check out the Master’s programme

.

• If you have a background in Science or Medicine, you can take classes

.

• If you're interested in sustainable business practices and sustainable innovation, take an elective at

.
The
(CE) also organises Spring schools, Summer schools, Winter schools, Honours classes and short seminars on entrepreneurship for non-Dutch students. All courses are offered in English except when the entire group is Dutch.

StudentsInc

Would you like to run a business while still at university? Do you want to graduate on running your own business?
(Dutch language website) is home to a number of student businesses and offers programmes to develop your entrepreneurial skills.

UtrechtInc

Have you (nearly) graduated and do you want to start a business? UtrechtInc is the place to find financing, office space, expertise and coaching.
is there for

• starting entrepreneurs and alumni, doctoral candidates, and researchers (preferably from Utrecht University, Hogeschool Utrecht, UMC Utrecht)
• who are still in the ideas phase OR further along (less than five years) and have
• and have a (IT) start-up focusing on health, environmental sustainability, or education.

Would you like to know more? Visit the UtrechtInc site, register your idea, and drop by for a cup of coffee.

Enactus

Would you like to know whether entrepreneurship is right for you? Are you driven, socially conscious, and ambitious? Are you willing to spend a year working on a business for at least 8 hours a week?

(Dutch language website) offers you the opportunity to run a business and provides workshops and professional coaching.

Useful links

• Register at the

.

• You can read about all the other things you need to take care of on the

(Belastingdienst) website.

• Join relevant groups on

to share knowledge online and expand your network.

• Will you run an especially sustainable, innovative, and/or internationally oriented business? The

can support you with subsidies, knowledge, regulation, and more.

Becoming a teacher

Upon completion of your current Master's degree programme, you can follow a one-year (Dutch language) teacher training programme. This will grant you a first degree teaching qualification for secondary education. That means you will be able to work in the upper and lower years of vmbo, havo, and vwo in the Netherlands.

Take a look at UU's
.

PhD programmes

When you complete your Master's degree programme, if you enjoy doing research in your area of expertise, perhaps you should pursue a PhD. You will start out as a research assistant or trainee research worker. Check the

of Utrecht University.
The best way to find a research traineeship is to contact the professor in the field you want to specialise in. Another option would be
.
If you'd like to pursue a PhD at Utrecht University, your PhD programme will fall under the auspices of one of the Graduate Schools. For more information, consult the

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