Gaining professional orientation and networking
We, the staff members of the Career Service at the Goethe University Frankfurt, support international and refugee students in orienting themselves in the professional and working world
In classic job shadowing, students "shadow" a working person at work for a day and thus experience his or her daily work routine. In this way, they can gain personal insights into a specific profession or their desired profession, obtain specific information and make initial professional contacts. The focus is on getting to know each other. The students get a first impression of the fields of activity, the work processes and the corporate culture of the employer.
The professionals also benefit from job shadowing: They have the opportunity to support students in their career orientation, get to know motivated students and can use job shadowing as a recruiting opportunity for internships, working students, final theses, job beginners.
Due to the Corona pandemic, people could no longer come together freely. Therefore, we offered online job shadowing (duration: approx. one to two hours) as an alternative to a face-to-face meeting.
Abschluss zum Juli 2021, bewirbt sich aktuell europaweit in internationalen Organisationen
I am Xinyue Zhu, an LL.M. student at Goethe University
Frankfurt. After completing my bachelor's degree in UIBE in China and some
internships at international law firms, banks,
government and corporates, I am currently doing my internship at a
German law firm.
I have communicated with my mentor many times via zoom and
email. My mentor gives me experience from a wide variety of areas and to be
able to help with questions regarding my studies as well as career entry,
including but not limited to interview tips, practical information
and differences about the jobs, insights into everyday working life
from a personal perspective and the experiences
of international graduates on the German job market. Without this
event, I find it hard to believe that I would have been able to learn about the
German legal job market in such detail. And with the encouragement and
guidance of my mentor, I managed to get an internship at a law fim. I highly
recommend this event, from which I benefited a lot!
After completing my bachelor's degree in economics at the Goethe University in Frankfurt and my master's degree in economics at the Heinrich Heine University in
Düsseldorf, i completed the trainee programm KfW IPEX Bank. Afterwards, I started my current position as a contract and credit manager in the sub-Saharan Africa division of KfW's development bank.
I think that, in addition to providing insight into my current job, I can also act as a mentor for students. During my studies, I worked as a student trainee for a management consultancy (A.T. Kearny), asset managers (Amundi, HSBC Asset Management) and in the corporate banking department of a bank (HSBC). In addition, I volunteered with AISEC throughout my student years. Most recently, I accompanied a board position there at the local level.
I see myself in a position to be able to provide young students with experience from a wide range of areas and to help concerning questions regarding studies and career entry. I am fluent in French and English and enjoy exchanging ideas with students in these languages.
I wished I
had such a programme in my time, because practice and theory are very
different. I would also like to show young students new paths that they may not
have thought of. In particular, it is also important to me that people to whom
the German language was/is foreign find a connection here in their everyday
working lives.
I work as a Market Risk Business Expert at Commerzbank AG, Frankfurt for the last 2.5 years. I came to Europe in 2015 to do my masters from ESSEC Business School, France.